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Four Indian American lawyers were appointed as immigration judges across various courts in the country, the Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) announced.

The appointees were among the 42 new immigration judges sworn in by Attorney General Pam Bondi during an investiture ceremony in March.

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Dimple Gupta was appointed as an immigration judge at the Annandale Immigration Court in Virginia. She most recently served as deputy general counsel at the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Capitol Hill from April 2025 to January 2026.

Before that, she was an attorney with the Office of General Counsel at the Central Intelligence Agency from January 2020 to April 2025, and earlier served as senior counsel to the director of EOIR at the Department of Justice from April 2019 to January 2020.

Earlier in her legal career, Gupta served as general counsel to former U.S. Senator Pat Toomey, chief counsel for constitutional law at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, counsel to the assistant attorney general for the Civil Division at the Department of Justice, attorney in the appellate law group at the Securities and Exchange Commission, attorney at Covington & Burling, and judicial law clerk to Judge Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago in 1998 and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 2001. She is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the Massachusetts Bar.

Anupriya Krishna was appointed as an immigration judge at the Sterling Immigration Court in Virginia. She most recently served as associate general counsel with EOIR’s Office of the General Counsel from January 2025 to February 2026.

Before that, she spent nearly six years at EOIR’s Board of Immigration Appeals in Falls Church, Virginia, where she served as senior panel attorney, supervisory attorney advisor and attorney advisor.

Earlier, Krishna worked as an attorney advisor with the Office of Appellate Operations at the U.S. Social Security Administration from January 2013 to May 2019.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts from The Ohio State University in 2004, a Juris Doctor from Cleveland State University in 2007, and a Master of Laws from George Washington University Law School in 2012. She is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.

Revathi Muneer was appointed as an immigration judge at the Houston–Jefferson Street Immigration Court. She most recently served as an assistant chief counsel with the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security, in San Francisco from 2024 to 2026, after serving in the same role in El Paso from 2022 to 2024.

Before that, Muneer spent two decades with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in a series of immigration-related legal and adjudicatory roles, including asylum officer, quality assurance trainer, policy adjudications officer, training officer, supervisory asylum officer, and fraud detection and national security immigration officer.

Earlier in her career, she served as an assistant district counsel with the former Immigration and Naturalization Service in Los Angeles from 1996 to 2000.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Texas Christian University and a Juris Doctor from Southern Methodist University School of Law. She is a member of the State Bar of California.

Akash B. Vyas was appointed as an immigration judge at the Chicago Immigration Court. He most recently served as an assistant chief counsel with the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security, in Chicago from January 2024 to February 2026.

Before that, he served as an assistant state’s attorney with the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office in Chicago from November 2007 to December 2023.

Vyas earned a Bachelor of Science from Purdue University in 2004 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law in 2007. He is a member of the Illinois State Bar.

The investiture ceremony was held at the Department of Justice’s Great Hall in Washington, D.C., where Attorney General Pamela Bondi administered the oath of office. EOIR Director Daren K. Margolin also delivered remarks.

“This Department of Justice has made reducing the immigration court backlog a top priority, and these 42 new highly qualified judges will help us deliver on that goal,” Bondi said. “Under the Trump Administration, immigration judges will decide cases based on the law – not politics.”

The appointments come as the Justice Department continues efforts to reduce the immigration court backlog, which EOIR said has declined by more than 380,000 cases since Jan. 20, 2025. All five judges are set to begin hearing cases in March 2026.

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