What is Judge Dawn Kulick's background?
EOIR's notice says that Dawn Kulick was appointed in December 2020. Judge Kulick earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1992 from Chatham College and a Juris Doctor in 2003 from New York Law School. From 2016 to 2020, she served as an assistant chief counsel, Office of the Principal Legal Advisor, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security, in Miami and Philadelphia. From 2014 to 2016, she served as a judicial law clerk in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida for U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrea M. Simonton, in Miami. For eight years, she served as an assistant state attorney, felony division chief, and homicide prosecutor in the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office. For two years, she worked as a business development specialist, National Litigation Practice Group, Greenberg Traurig PA, in Miami. Prior to law school, she worked in the corporate world for eight years, in New York. Her experience there includes HarperCollins Publishers, Children’s Books, and the Business Affairs Department, International Division of Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
What does TRAC report about Judge Dawn Kulick'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 Dawn Kulick decided 358 asylum cases at Philadelphia Immigration Court and denied 43.6 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 Dawn Kulick 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 Philadelphia Immigration Court. The relationship is recorded as listed 2026-10-20; it may include supervisory coverage rather than a merits-hearing assignment.