Jason R Masterson

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Attorney General William P. Barr appointed Jason R. Masterson as an Immigration Judge in December 2020. Judge Masterson earned a Bachelor of Arts in 2003 from the University of Cincinnati, a Juris Doctor in 2010 from the University of Cincinnati College of Law, and a Master of Arts in 2000 from the Naval War College. From 2011 to 2020, he served as an activeduty judge advocate in the U.S. Navy in the following roles and locations: from March to September 2020, deputy staff attorney for all U.S. Forces Afghanistan and the NATO Resolute Support mission, Afghanistan, and chief of Leahy Law and Gross Violations of Human Rights,Afghanistan; from 2018 to 2020, staff attorney and probable-cause hearing officer, Navy Region Mid-Atlantic, Norfolk, Virginia; from 2015 to 2018, deputy staff attorney, Naval Special Warfare, Virginia Beach, Virginia, including deployments to the Republic of Korea and southern Philippines; from 2013 to 2015, defense counsel, Gulfport, Mississippi; and from 2011 to 2013,prosecutor and special assistant to the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California, San Diego. From 2009 to 2010, he worked in the Cincinnati Prosecutor’s office. From 2008 to 2009,he was a fellow with the Ohio Innocence Project. From 2004 to 2007, he served as a substanceabuse and mental illness case manager for a Cincinnati-area nonprofit. Judge Masterson ismember of the Ohio State Bar.