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Georgia disability judges: favorable decision rates

Hearings in Georgia are decided by administrative law judges at hearing offices in Atlanta, Covington, Macon, and Savannah. The chart below shows, for each judge, the share of decisions that were favorable — from least to most favorable.

  1. Emily Y. Howard Macon
    18.9% 74 of 391
  2. Gregory Fons Atlanta
    23.5% 99 of 422
  3. Amy Uren Roberson Macon
    34.5% 101 of 293
  4. William Callahan Atlanta
    35.1% 138 of 393
  5. James Conlon Atlanta
    41.0% 157 of 383
  6. Jeffrey A. Ferguson Savannah
    42.9% 27 of 63
  7. Cynthia Weaver Atlanta
    43.4% 63 of 145
  8. Craig Petersen Savannah
    45.0% 221 of 491
  9. Linda D. Taylor Savannah
    45.5% 50 of 110
  10. Kristen Glover Covington
    46.4% 166 of 358
  11. Wylly Jordan Covington
    48.3% 182 of 377
  12. Carla McMichael Atlanta
    49.5% 156 of 315
  13. Eric Fulcher Macon
    49.7% 249 of 501
  14. Lisa A. Bentley Atlanta
    50.4% 191 of 379
  15. Vincent Hill Macon
    53.9% 96 of 178
  16. Stephen Thompson Macon
    55.0% 220 of 400
  17. Joseph Bestul Covington
    56.4% 266 of 472
  18. Michael K. Dennard Savannah
    57.3% 307 of 536
  19. Todd Colarusso Atlanta
    58.0% 255 of 440
  20. Raymond M. Lykins Atlanta
    59.6% 236 of 396
  21. David Cornelius Macon
    60.1% 233 of 388
  22. Laurie Bedell Atlanta
    61.8% 249 of 403
  23. Christine A. Guard Macon
    62.9% 95 of 151
  24. L. Ellis Davis Covington
    63.2% 270 of 427
  25. Brooke Werner McEckron Covington
    64.7% 258 of 399
  26. Grant Dail Atlanta
    65.2% 180 of 276
  27. Vickie Evans Savannah
    65.5% 365 of 557
  28. Ucheakpunwa Egemonye Atlanta
    66.8% 328 of 491
  29. Hilton R. Miller Atlanta
    68.7% 294 of 428
  30. Charles Murray Atlanta
    75.6% 236 of 312
  31. J. Samuel Childs Atlanta
    76.2% 259 of 340
  32. Sonya Grounds Covington
    77.4% 147 of 190
  33. Paul McAdam Covington
    78.4% 273 of 348
  34. Suzanne A. Littlefield Atlanta
    79.7% 216 of 271
  35. Melinda McIntyre Covington
    87.3% 338 of 387
  36. Laura McHenry Atlanta
    89.8% 114 of 127

About these numbers

Favorable means a decision that was fully favorable or partially favorable. The percentage is the number of favorable decisions divided by the judge's total decisions; dismissals and other dispositions are not counted as decisions.

Source: Social Security Administration, Office of Hearings Operations, ALJ disposition data, reporting period ending September 25, 2026. Each judge's figures are for the judge's Georgia hearing offices. Judges with fewer than 50 decisions in the period are omitted, because results from so few cases are not meaningful.

These figures describe past decisions by each judge. They do not predict the outcome of any claim, which depends on its own facts and evidence. See how a claim works and the Savannah hearing office.

See also the South Carolina judges.

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