What is Judge Irma Diaz's background?
EOIR's notice says that Irma Diaz was appointed in November 2024. Judge Diaz earned a Bachelor of Science in 2004 from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, and a Juris Doctor in 2013 from Pace University’s Elisabeth Haub School of Law in White Plains, New York. From 2022 to 2024, she served as an assistant chief counsel with the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security, in Los Fresnos, Texas. From 2016 to 2022, she was an immigration attorney, and in 2019 became a partner, at the Law Firm of Anayancy Housman (formerly known as Housman & Diaz). From 2014 to 2016, she was an immigration attorney at the Westchester Hispanic Coalition, a nonprofit organization (now part of Make the Road New York). Judge Diaz is a captain in the U.S. Army Reserves, having joined as a direct commission officer in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps in June 2015.
What does TRAC report about Judge Irma Diaz'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 Irma Diaz decided 676 asylum cases at Hyattsville Immigration Court and denied 86.7 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 Irma Diaz 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 Hyattsville Immigration Court. The relationship is recorded as listed 2026-10-20; it may include supervisory coverage rather than a merits-hearing assignment.