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Loreto S. Geisse

Immigration Judge, Sacramento Immigration Court. Appointed June 2004.

Asylum record, FY 2021-2026

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Judge Geisse15.5%
Sacramento court27.0%
All judges nationally62.9%
Decisions on the merits
453
Asylum granted
361
Other relief granted
22
Denied
70
Against own court
-11.5 pts
Denial rate by fiscal year
FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25
44%22%13%4%13%

Read from TRAC's chart to the nearest point. Years with fewer than 25 decisions are not shown.

Docket

Respondents represented by counsel: 89% (nationally, 81% are represented).

Most common nationalities: Russia (41.7%), India (22.3%), Mexico (7.5%), Guatemala (4.9%), El Salvador (4.4%).

Official biography

Judge Geisse was appointed as an Immigration Judge in June 2004. Prior to her appointment as Immigration Judge, from September 2000 to June 2004, Judge Geisse served as Counsel to the Chief Immigration Judge in Falls Church, Virginia. She received an undergraduate degree in 1989 from Washington University, and a Juris Doctorate in 1995 from Washington College of Law of the American University. From September 1997 to September 2000, Judge Geisse served as a trial attorney with the Department of Justice, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation. She worked previously at the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) as an attorney-advisor for the Chief Immigration Judge from September 1996 to September 1997. Judge Geisse first joined the Department of Justice through the Attorney General's Honor Program with EOIR in 1995 serving as a judicial law clerk for the immigration courts in Baltimore, Maryland ; and Philadelphia and York, Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Maryland Bar.

As published by the Executive Office for Immigration Review at appointment, via TRAC.

In the record

No published reporting or appellate decisions naming this judge have been collected yet.

Other judges at Sacramento

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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.