J. Nichols
Veterans Law Judge, Board of Veterans’ Appeals
Decision record in our visible corpus
- Decisions
- 945
- Granted
- 274
- Partly granted
- 134
- Other outcomes
- 537
43% 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 Veteran is granted an effective date of April 25, 2014, for service connection for prostate cancer.
2025-12-30 · remanded
- The Board granted a 50 percent disability rating for migraine headaches from December 1, 2022, but no earlier.
2025-12-30 · granted
- The Board granted service connection for the Veteran's cause of death, finding that his death was incurred in the line of duty and not due…
2025-12-30 · granted
- The Board remands the claims for a higher rating for lumbar spine disability, lower extremity radiculopathy, and TDIU due to insufficient…
2025-12-29 · remanded
- The Board granted an initial 20 percent rating for left knee instability from May 6, 2014 to December 9, 2019 and a 30 percent rating from…
2025-12-29 · mixed
- The appeal was denied for service connection of a cervical spine disorder, and several claims were remanded for further development.
2025-12-29 · mixed
- The Board granted service connection for cervical strain and denied service connection for rhinitis.
2025-12-29 · mixed
- The Board denied the appellant's claim for Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) home loan guarantee benefits, to include a certificate of…
2025-12-29 · denied
- The appellant's claim for VA home loan guaranty benefits was denied due to not meeting the required service duration and honorable…
2025-12-29 · denied
- The Board denied an increased rating for depressive disorder and remanded the claims for a higher rating for headache syndrome and TDIU.
2025-12-29 · denied
- The Board granted service connection for headaches, finding that the Veteran's headache condition onset during service and has been…
2025-12-23 · granted
- The Board denied an initial compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss and remanded the service connection claims for vertigo, dry eye…
2025-12-23 · mixed