What is Judge Chevone Sanon's background?
EOIR's notice says that Chevone Sanon was appointed in November 2024. Judge Sanon earned a Bachelor of Arts in 2000 from John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a Juris Doctor in 2005 from CUNY School of Law. Judge Sarkany earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1996 from the University of California, Berkeley; a Master of Philosophy in Criminology in 1998 from the University of Cambridge; and a Juris Doctor in 2002 from the University of San Francisco School of Law. From 2019 to 2024, she was at the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles in the Traffic Violations Bureau in New York serving in the following positions: senior administrative law judge (2021-2024) and administrative law judge (2019-2021). From 2018 to 2019, she served as a senior attorney at the New York State Department of Financial Services in New York. From 2016 to 2018, she served as a senior attorney at the New York State Division of Human Rights in New York. From 2015 to 2024, he served as an appellate and trial attorney with the Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Department of Justice.
What does TRAC report about Judge Chevone Sanon's asylum decisions?
TRAC, a research center that began at Syracuse University, reports that for FY 2021 - 2026 (data covers the first 9 months of fiscal year 2026), Judge Chevone Sanon decided 293 asylum cases at New York Immigration Court and denied 65.2 percent, based on its report of Aug 27, 2026. These are past figures for one court. They do not predict your case, which turns on your facts, evidence, nationality and representation, and TRAC cautions against simple comparisons between judges at different courts. Read the full report at TRAC, and talk to a lawyer about your own case.
What the official record establishes
The source lists the name Chevone Sanon in 1 alphabetical row. The recorded title is Immigration Judge. The record is not an appointment history or an employment certification.
Dated court associations
EOIR’s court-specific tables associate this entry with New York - Broadway Immigration Court. The relationship is recorded as listed 2026-10-20; it may include supervisory coverage rather than a merits-hearing assignment.