Jerrica A. Harness
Immigration Judge, Stewart Immigration Court. Appointed May 2024.
Asylum record, FY 2021-2026
TRAC source →- Decisions on the merits
- 120
- Asylum granted
- 10
- Other relief granted
- 14
- Denied
- 96
- Against own court
- +1.4 pts
| FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|
| 78% | 89% |
Docket
Respondents represented by counsel: 68% (nationally, 81% are represented).
Most common nationalities: Russia (10%), Mexico (9.2%), Colombia (8.3%), Guatemala (5.8%), Cuba (5%).
Official biography
Jerrica A. Harness was appointed as an immigration judge to begin hearing cases in May 2024. Judge Harness ear ned a Bachelor of Arts in 2000 from Berry College and a Juris Doctor in 2007 from the University of Tennessee College of Law. From 2019 to 2024, she served as a supervisory administrative law judge for the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In 2019, she served as an assistant chief counsel with the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security, in Lumpkin, Georgia. From 2017 to 2019, she served as an attorney advisor with the Office of Hearings Operations, Social Security Administration in Falls Church, Virginia, and Knoxville, Tennessee. From 2012 to 2017, she served as an administrative hearing officer for the Tennessee Department of Human Services in Chattanooga, Tennessee. From 2011 to 2012, she served as a senior attorney for Children's Legal Services, Department of Children and Families, State of Florida. From 2007 to 2012, she served as an assistant state attorney for the State Attorney's Office of the First Judicial Circuit, State of Florida. Judge Harness is a member of the Tennessee Bar.
In the record
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Other judges at Lumpkin
Court page →About these figures. Denial rates describe outcomes in the cases a judge happened to hear, which differ by detention, nationality and representation. They are not a measure of fairness or competence. Method and sources are on the judges index.