Ray Barto Slabbekorn, Jr.
Veterans Law Judge, Board of Veterans’ Appeals
Decision record in our visible corpus
- Decisions
- 719
- Granted
- 222
- Partly granted
- 163
- Other outcomes
- 334
54% 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 asthma and remanded claims for insomnia and sleep apnea. Other conditions were denied.
2025-12-31 · mixed
- The Board denied service connection for cervicalgia, jaw disability, stomach disability, and drug abuse as the evidence did not support a…
2025-12-31 · denied
- The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, finding a causal relationship between the condition and an…
2025-12-30 · granted
- The appeal of the proposed reduction in the Veteran's rating for a lumbosacral sprain is dismissed as it was not a final adjudicative…
2025-12-30 · dismissed
- The Board granted service connection for arrhythmia and a bilateral eye disability, but denied service connection for lipoma.
2025-12-30 · mixed
- The appeal seeking service connection for loss of teeth due to maxilla was dismissed as the Veteran did not appeal the rating assigned and…
2025-12-30 · dismissed
- The appeal was granted in part, with the effective date of the discontinuance of TDIU and DEA benefits amended to May 1, 2024.
2025-12-29 · mixed
- The Board denied service connection for a left wrist disability, finding no evidence of a current disability that began during active…
2025-12-23 · denied
- The Board denied an increased initial rating greater than 30 percent for the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder, finding that the…
2025-12-23 · denied
- The Board denied service connection for diabetes mellitus type II, finding no evidence that the Veteran's diabetes resulted from her…
2025-12-23 · denied
- The Board denied service connection for bronchitis, COPD, asthma, and plantar fasciitis as not being related to the Veteran's military…
2025-12-23 · denied
- The Board granted an effective date of September 15, 2023, for the award of service connection for generalized anxiety disorder with major…
2025-12-23 · granted