Gayle Strommen
Veterans Law Judge, Board of Veterans’ Appeals
Decision record in our visible corpus
- Decisions
- 2,092
- Granted
- 696
- Partly granted
- 184
- Other outcomes
- 1,212
42% 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 granted service connection for a right knee disability and a left knee disability, finding that the Veteran's bilateral knee…
2025-12-30 · granted
- The Veteran's depressive disorder was granted a 70 percent disability rating from April 27, 2020 to August 15, 2022, and a TDIU was also…
2025-12-30 · mixed
- The veteran withdrew his appeals for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability and sleep apnea, and the Board has no…
2025-12-23 · dismissed
- The Board dismissed the appeal for service connection for erectile dysfunction as the Veteran failed to identify an appealable issue with…
2025-12-23 · dismissed
- The Veteran's service-connected posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) renders him unable to obtain and retain substantially gainful…
2025-12-22 · granted
- The appeal for an initial rating in excess of 70 percent, effective March 18, 2021, for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was…
2025-12-19 · dismissed
- The Board granted an earlier effective date of September 27, 2023, for the award of service connection for left ankle osteoarthritis and…
2025-12-19 · mixed
- The Board remands the claims for a mood disorder and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) to obtain additional medical opinions.
2025-12-18 · remanded
- The Board granted an earlier effective date of April 28, 2021 for the award of an initial 50 percent rating for obstructive sleep apnea.
2025-12-18 · granted
- The Board denied the veteran's appeals for increased ratings and remanded certain issues, including TDIU and SMC.
2025-12-18 · denied
- The Board granted service connection for radiculopathy of the right upper and lower extremities but denied an increased rating for…
2025-12-18 · mixed
- The Board granted earlier effective dates for the award of increased ratings for a lumbar disability and lower extremity radiculopathies,…
2025-12-18 · granted