Wade Thomas Napier
Immigration Judge, Boston Immigration Court. Appointed April 2021.
Asylum record, FY 2021-2026
TRAC source →- Decisions on the merits
- 130
- Asylum granted
- 49
- Other relief granted
- 4
- Denied
- 77
- Against own court
- +6.6 pts
| FY22 | FY23 |
|---|---|
| 53% | 68% |
Docket
Respondents represented by counsel: 98% (nationally, 81% are represented).
Most common nationalities: Guatemala (25.4%), Brazil (19.2%), El Salvador (15.4%), Honduras (9.2%), Ecuador (4.6%).
Official biography
Wade T. Napier was appointed as a Unit Chief Immigration Judge to begin supervisory immigration adjudication center duties and hearing cases in April 2021. Judge Napier ear ned a Bachelor of Science in 2001 from Transylvania University and a Juris Doctor in 2005 from Northern Kentucky University–Salmon P. Chase College of Law. From 2008 to 2021, he serve das an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, in Lexington. In 2008, heserved as a Staff Attorney for a Trial Court Judge, in Boone County, Kentucky. From 2005 to2007, he worked in the Claims Litigation Department of Great American Insurance Company, in Cincinnati. Judge Napier is a member of the Kentucky Bar.
In the record
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Other judges at Boston
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.