What is Judge Hye Chon's background?
EOIR's notice says that Hye Chon was appointed in October 2018. Judge Chon earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1995 from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Juris Doctor in 1999 from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. From 2006 to 2018, she was an assistant chief counsel with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security, in Los Angeles. From 2011 to 2012, she served as a special assistant U.S. attorney at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California in Los Angeles. From 2002 to 2006, she was an attorney with the California Supreme Court in San Francisco. From 1999 to 2002, she was a deputy attorney general with the California Office of the Attorney General in Los Angeles.
What does TRAC report about Judge Hye Chon'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 Hye Chon decided 632 asylum cases at Van Nuys Immigration Court and denied 81.3 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 Hye Chon 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 Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard Immigration Court. The relationship is recorded as listed 2026-10-20; it may include supervisory coverage rather than a merits-hearing assignment.