Philip Fluhr

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Philip N. Fluhr was appointed as an immigration judge to begin hearing cases in November 2023. Judge Fluhr earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1995 from the State University of New York at Binghamton, and a Juris Doctor in 1998 from Loyola University New Orleans School of Law. From 2017 to 2023, and from 2011 to 2016, he served as an assistant U.S. attorney with the U.S. Attorney’s Office at the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago. From 2016 to 2017, he was a partner with Le Clair Ryan in Chicago and Newark, New Jersey. From 2006 to 2011, he served as senior associate general counsel in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in Washington D.C. From 2002 to 2006, he worked with Connell Foley LLP as an associate in Roseland, New Jersey. From 1998 to 2002, he served with the Judge Advocate General’s Corps of the U.S. Navy, first as a military prosecutor based at Fleet Activities Yokosuka in Japan and then as a legal officer on board the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk, which was homeported in Yokosuka, Japan. From 2003 to 2023, he served as a reserve officer assigned to the following locations: the Pentagon; Naval Station Newport in Rhode Island; Mac Dill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida; Naval Base San Diego in California; and the Washington Navy Yard. Since affiliating with the reserve component, Judge Fluhr has deployed to the Philippines, Iraq, Qatar, and Afghanistan. Judge Fluhr is a member of the Illinois State Bar, the New Jersey State Bar, and the Pennsylvania Bar.