What is Judge Terexa Fan's background?
EOIR's notice says that Terexa Fan was appointed in May 2026. Judge Fan earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1998 from the University of California, Irvine, and a Juris Doctor in 2002 from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. From February 2024 to May 2026, she was an assistant general counsel with the Defense Health Agency at Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton, California. From August 2023 to January 2024, she was a remote claims attorney with the U.S. Navy in Washington D.C. From October 2017 to August 2023, she was an assistant inspector general with the Navy Region Southwest at Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, California. During this time, from May 2018 to December 2018, she also served as a special assistant U.S. attorney for the U.S. Attorney’s Office Southern District of California.
What the official record establishes
The source lists the name Terexa Fan 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 Santa Ana Immigration Court. The relationship is recorded as listed 2026-10-20; it may include supervisory coverage rather than a merits-hearing assignment.
No outcome or personal-profile claims
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