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Elliot M. Kaplan

Member

Judge Kaplan was appointed to the Administrative Review Board in April 2025. Before coming to the Board, he worked as a practicing attorney with extensive experience in commercial, insolvency, and employment litigation on behalf of Fortune 50 companies, banks, pharmaceutical manufacturers and retailers. Additionally, he served as a Unit Chief Immigration Judge in the U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review where he heard asylum, removal, and other cases and issued decisions in hundreds of matters. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Antioch University, a Master of Business Administration degree from Whittier College, and a Juris Doctor from the Whittier College School of Law. He is a member of the bar in Missouri.