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Updated June 2026 · SSA Public

Hearing Office

GREENSBORO

Region 04Rank #102 of 160

Avg processing

268days

+2 vs national

Processing time

268

8.9 months

Hearing wait

8.0

months (current)

Cases pending

2,218

FY receipts

2,390

FY dispositions

2,295

Active judges

8

Video hearings

0%

of hearings held

Avg approval rate

65.0%

+7.2 vs avg

Backlog ratio

1.04

Growing

Rank

#102

of 160

Processing time in context

Fastest · 72 daysAvg · 266 daysSlowest · 680 days

The draw · approval spread across 8 judges

50%
86%
0%Median 56.0%100%

At GREENSBORO, approval rates range from 50.0% (Firestone, Scott) to 85.7% (Spitz, Maria) — a 36-pointspread. Assignment is effectively the luck of the draw, so the judge a case lands with can matter more than the office’s average. Plan for the median (56.0%), not the best case.

Judges at GREENSBORO (8)

JudgeApprovalDecisionsFavorableDeniedTrend
Spitz, Maria85.7%30726344
Jackson, Richard81.2%26021149
Dorman, Clint73.2%30622482
von Euler, Barbara57.8%1025943
Booth, Joseph54.1%316171145
Cavadi, Michelle D.53.1%286152134
McMillion, Benjamin R.51.3%271139132
Firestone, Scott50.0%1185959