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Updated June 2026 · SSA Public
Administrative Law Judge
Day, Kelley
SPECIAL REVIEW CADRE Stable
+5.7 pts vs national average
63.5%lifetime approval
vs baselines
This judge63.5%
SPECIAL REVIEW CADRE60.9%
National avg57.8%
Total decisions
178
Fully favorable
76
42.7%
Partially favorable
37
20.8%
Denials
65
36.5%
Total dispositions
280
Dismissals
102
36.4%
Awards
113
3-year trend
Stable
FY2025 decision breakdown
Fully fav.
Partial
Denied
Fully fav. 42.7%Partially fav. 20.8%Denied 36.5%
Approval rate history
FY2011
90.0%10 dec
FY2012
36.4%313 dec
FY2012
39.2%245 dec
FY2013
39.1%545 dec
FY2014
42.8%537 dec
FY2015
50.0%138 dec
FY2015
45.2%376 dec
FY2016
40.7%59 dec
FY2016
49.7%316 dec
FY2017
47.0%149 dec
FY2017
51.7%118 dec
FY2018
48.4%409 dec
FY2019
47.9%499 dec
FY2020
49.4%336 dec
FY2021
55.2%261 dec
FY2022
57.1%112 dec
FY2023
100.0%1 dec
FY2023
32.4%34 dec
FY2023
0.0%2 dec
FY2023
51.8%195 dec
FY2024
0.0%2 dec
FY2024
56.3%261 dec
Above national Below national National avg
Other ALJs at SPECIAL REVIEW CADRE (23)
- Weathers, Ena189 dec83.1%
- Cabotaje, Michael60 dec81.7%
- Smiley, Jennifer213 dec80.3%
- Rauenzahn, MaryKay104 dec79.8%
- Hockensmith, Mark173 dec74.0%
- Ohanesian, Nicholas58 dec70.7%
- Alden, Randolph W192 dec67.2%
- Kramzyk, Henry91 dec67.0%
- Labrum, Robert J181 dec65.2%
- Waller, Robert50 dec64.0%
- Walter, Nicholas193 dec61.7%
- Carr, Michael36 dec61.1%
- Valkavich, Helen236 dec59.3%
- Lucas, Brian314 dec59.2%
- Fuller, Roxanne66 dec59.1%
- DiMaggio Wallis, Sandra R212 dec57.5%
- Nagle, Kim Soo198 dec57.1%
- Eiler, Kathleen H164 dec54.3%
- Benton, Amy33 dec51.5%
- Dillon, Christopher81 dec44.4%
- Ferguson, Jeffrey A53 dec41.5%
- Beatty, Gregory M.68 dec35.3%
- Wexler, April M37 dec24.3%
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