Elizabeth Martinez

Immigration Judge · San Antonio Immigration Court

Last updated August 19, 2026

Elizabeth Martinez at a glance

Current role: Immigration Judge
Court: San Antonio Immigration Court
Current assignment: San Antonio Immigration Court
Jurisdiction: Texas · Federal
Judicial service: Active

Available research

Asylum decisionsSourced, precomputed TRAC judge-report statistics

Biography and careerSource-attributed professional, judicial, and education record

SourcesOfficial and public records supporting this profile

Asylum decisions

Scope: These statistics cover completed asylum decisions in the linked TRAC reports, not every immigration-court matter. Methodology and limitations.

Current EOIR assignment: San Antonio Immigration Court · TRAC report court history: San Antonio Immigration Court.

Latest judge-level TRAC data: FY 2021 - 2026; data covers the first 9 months of fiscal year 2026

Current court/national context: FY 2021-2026; data covers the first 9 months of fiscal year 2026 · TRAC aggregate source. Comparators above remain matched to the judge-report period.

San Antonio Immigration Court · Full · FY 2021 - 2026

FY 2021 - 2026; data covers the first 9 months of fiscal year 2026 · Report window: FY 2021 - 2026

Qualifying decisions: N=134

Outcome	Count	Rate
Asylum granted	10	7.5%
Other relief granted	67	50%
Any relief grantedAsylum + other relief	77	57.5%
Denied	57	42.5%

Rates are calculated from the displayed counts and N=134; counts sum exactly to N.

Exact annual judge-specific asylum outcome values for FY2025 and FY2026/YTD are unavailable in the linked TRAC report; no chart pixels or rates are converted into counts. Direct TRAC judge report.

Same-period comparators

Reference	Any relief granted	Denied	Δ any relief	Δ denied
Immigration-court comparatorSan Antonio Immigration Court	58.8%	41.2%	-1.3 pp	+1.3 pp
National comparator	37.1%	62.9%	+20.4 pp	-20.4 pp

Deltas are judge minus comparator in percentage points. Each comparator uses the exact report period shown above; a newer aggregate is not substituted for judge-level data.

Representation

Representation status	Share
Represented	67.2%
Unrepresented	32.8%
National unrepresented context	18.8%

Representation shares are reported for the qualifying decisions and are separate from outcome rates. These shares are not outcome rates.

Major nationality distribution

Nationality	Share
Venezuela	17.9%
Honduras	14.9%
Mexico	14.2%
Cuba	11.9%
Colombia	9.7%

N=134. Major nationality categories named by TRAC for this judge's qualifying decisions; percentages are shares of the displayed denominator. TRAC also provides a national nationality context on the source report; no national distribution is substituted for the judge-level mix.

Same-court peer table/range

13 same-court judge reports in this period. Denial range: 2.8%–61.9%. Any-relief range: 38.1%–97.2%.

Judge	N	Any relief granted	Denied
Adams, Justin	559	38.1%	61.9%
Burkhart, Margaret D.	282	97.2%	2.8%
Crossan, Thomas G., Jr.	149	66.5%	33.6%
Gonzalez, Yvonne	479	73.9%	26.1%
Harlow, Craig A.	391	55.7%	44.2%

Direct TRAC source: Judge Elizabeth Martinez FY 2021 - 2026*, San Antonio Immigration Court *data covers the first 9 months of fiscal year 2026 · source/report date 2026-08-27.

Outcome rates reflect the cases appearing before the judge. Case mix, nationality, representation, procedural posture, and other factors can materially affect observed rates. These figures are descriptive historical statistics, not a rating or prediction.

Report-court and U.S. annual outcomes

Exact aggregate fiscal-year counts

Fiscal year	San Antonio Immigration Court cases (N)	San Antonio Immigration Court any relief	San Antonio Immigration Court denied	U.S. any relief	U.S. denied
FY2021	229	80.8%	19.2%	43.9%	56.1%
FY2022	655	76.6%	23.4%	51.1%	48.9%
FY2023	1,109	63.0%	37.0%	53.0%	47.0%
FY2024	1,165	58.2%	41.8%	51.1%	48.9%
FY2025	1,679	56.5%	43.5%	30.7%	69.3%
FY2026	1,057	43.0%	57.0%	12.9%	87.1%

Precomputed from exact TRAC aggregate counts; asylum granted + other relief granted = any relief granted, and outcomes sum to N. FY2026 is year-to-date through the published source cutoff. No values are interpolated. TRAC aggregate source · retrieved 2026-08-30. Methodology.

Elizabeth Martinez