Tanya Smith
Veterans Law Judge, Board of Veterans’ Appeals
Decision record in our visible corpus
- Decisions
- 1,828
- Granted
- 445
- Partly granted
- 138
- Other outcomes
- 1,245
32% 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 cervical spine disability and a thoracolumbar spine disability, finding that the Veteran's…
2025-12-30 · granted
- The Board granted an earlier effective date of March 1, 2006, for the grant of a 70 percent rating for bilateral vision loss due to…
2025-12-30 · mixed
- The Board granted service connection for obstructive sleep apnea as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected unspecified depressive…
2025-12-30 · granted
- The Board granted service connection for right ankle and leg cellulitis, finding that the Veteran's current disability is related to an…
2025-12-29 · granted
- The Board remands the claims for service connection for a left hip condition, right hip condition, cervical strain, and back condition due…
2025-12-23 · remanded
- The Board remands the case to obtain an addendum opinion regarding whether the Veteran's service-connected Parkinson's disease and TERA…
2025-12-22 · remanded
- The appeal for an initial rating higher than 50 percent for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was withdrawn by the Veteran.
2025-12-22 · dismissed
- The Board denied increased ratings for Parkinsonism and CAD, but granted SMC based on the loss of use of the hands and need for regular…
2025-12-18 · mixed
- The Board granted service connection for a low back disability but denied service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
2025-12-17 · mixed
- The Board granted a separate rating of 10 percent under Diagnostic Codes 5260 and 5257 for the Veteran's right knee disability, but denied…
2025-12-17 · mixed
- The Board granted service connection for adjustment disorder with depression, insomnia, and anxiety as secondary to service-connected…
2025-12-17 · mixed
- The Board granted service connection for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected PTSD, lumbar spine…
2025-12-17 · granted