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Catherine G. Phillips
New Orleans (NOL) · New Orleans, LA
Catherine G. Phillips is listed with New Orleans (NOL). The database records 54 asylum outcomes: 0 approved, 54 denied, and 0 other outcomes. Historical statistics are informational and cannot predict an individual case.
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Judge background and appointment
Official biography
Catherine G. Phillips was appointed as a temporary immigration judge to begin hearing cases in February 2026. Judge Phillips earned a Bachelor of Arts in 2009 from Louisiana State University and a Juris Doctorate in 2013 from Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. During 2025, while in private practice in Daphne, Alabama, she was called to active duty to serve as a special trial counsel to assist the newly formed Office of Special Trial Counsel in the prosecution of sexual assault and domestic violence cases. From 2014 to 2024, she served on active duty as a military justice litigation specialist, a special trial counsel, and she earned the Navy's Prosecutor of the Year award in 2022. From 2017 to 2024, she also served as a military defense counsel in Norfolk, Virginia, and Great Lakes, Illinois. Judge Phillips is a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy Reserves. Judge Phillips is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and Louisiana State Bar.
Education: Judge Phillips earned a Bachelor of Arts in 2009 from Louisiana State University and a Juris Doctorate in 2013 from Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Bar admission: Judge Phillips is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and Louisiana State Bar.
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Decision approval rateis approved ÷ (approved + denied). Blue “Other” is shown separately and includes identifiable withholding/CAT protection, cancellation or adjustment, voluntary departure, withdrawal, termination, dismissal, and administrative closure; it is excluded from the rate denominator.Approved share of all outcomesuses approved, denied, and other outcomes in the denominator.
With small samples, a few cases can move the percentage sharply. The page flags samples below 50 and below 200 decisions.
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