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Theodore Doolittle

Immigration Judge, Hartford Immigration Court. Appointed November 2023.

Asylum record, FY 2021-2026

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Judge Doolittle42.1%
Hartford court63.9%
All judges nationally62.9%
Decisions on the merits
228
Asylum granted
113
Other relief granted
19
Denied
96
Against own court
-21.8 pts
Denial rate by fiscal year
FY24FY25
5%51%

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

Docket

Respondents represented by counsel: 90% (nationally, 81% are represented).

Most common nationalities: Ecuador (41.2%), Guatemala (11.4%), Honduras (10.1%), Brazil (8.3%), Colombia (4.8%).

Official biography

Theodore M. Doolittle was appointed as an immigration judge to begin hearing cases in November 2023. Judge Doolittle ear ned a Bachelor of Arts in 1986 from Harvard University and a Juris Doctor in 1992 from the University of Connecticut School of Law. From 2017 to 2023, he served as a Healthcare Advocate for the State of Connecticut, heading the Office of the Healthcare Advocate. From 2014 to 2016, he worked for LeClair Ryan and CGI Federal, concent rating on health care anti-fraud matt ers, in Annapolis and Woodlawn, Maryland. From 2011 to 2014, he served as the first deputy director for Policy and Enforcement at the Center for Program Integrity, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Department of Health & Human Services, in Washington, D.C. From 2008 to 2011, he was an associate general counsel with United Healthcare's Legal & Regulatory Affairs Department in Hartford. From 2001 to 2008, he served as an assistant attorney general in the Healthcare Fraud, Whistleblower and Insurance Advocacy Department of the Connecticut Attorney General's Office. From 1995 to 2001, he was a trial attorney in the Tax Division, Department of Justice, where he litigated in the Appellate Section and the Southern Criminal Enforcement Section in Washington, D.C., including a detail as a special assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. From 1994 to 1995, he served as law clerk to the Honorable Roger L. Wollman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and from 1992 to 1994, he served as law clerk to the Honorable James T. Turner of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington, D.C. Judge Doolittle is a member of the Connecticut Bar.

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

In the record

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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.