A. Dean
Veterans Law Judge, Board of Veterans’ Appeals
Decision record in our visible corpus
- Decisions
- 241
- Granted
- 57
- Partly granted
- 28
- Other outcomes
- 156
35% granted or partly granted. Counts describe only decisions visible in our corpus and say nothing about how any individual appeal will be decided — every appeal turns on its own facts and evidence.
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial. Counts are compiled from published Board of Veterans’ Appeals decisions — see how this data is built. If you believe this page misattributes a decision or misstates a record, contact us and we will review and correct it.
Conditions this judge decides most
Recent decisions
- The Board denied an effective date prior to July 16, 2019, for the grant of service connection for PTSD and granted a 50 percent…
2025-12-29 · mixed
- The Board denied the veteran's claims for an increased rating, earlier effective date for TDIU, and earlier effective date for DEA.
2025-12-22 · denied
- The appeal for service connection for sleep apnea was dismissed due to a procedural defect in the Veteran's election of review options.
2025-12-16 · dismissed
- The Board granted an initial 60 percent rating for service-connected GERD and a 10 percent rating, but no higher, for hypertension.
2025-12-11 · granted
- The appeal was dismissed due to a procedural error in the Veteran's submission of concurrent election review options.
2025-12-10 · dismissed
- The Board denied service connection for asthma, bilateral pes planus, and an acquired psychiatric disorder as the evidence did not support…
2025-12-08 · denied
- The Board granted readjudication of the claims for service connection for headaches, a sleep condition (OSA), Parkinsonism (including…
2025-12-08 · mixed
- The Board denied the Veteran's claim for a rating in excess of 10 percent for service-connected hypertension, as there was no evidence…
2025-12-04 · denied
- The Board granted a 50 percent disability rating for migraines from February 14, 2022, and remanded the issue of entitlement to total…
2025-12-04 · mixed
- The Board granted service connection for sleep apnea as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected PTSD, resolving reasonable doubt in…
2025-12-02 · granted
- The Board remands the claims for service connection and increased ratings due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors.
2025-12-01 · remanded
- The Board remands the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include unspecified depressive disorder, as…
2025-11-20 · remanded