The Executive Office for Immigration Review invested 28 new immigration judges Friday.

Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General Claire McCasker Murray delivered opening remarks and Acting Chief Immigration Judge Christopher A. Santoro presided over the investiture at the Department of Justice's Great Hall in Washington , D.C.

Among those invested was Eugene H. Robinson Jr.  Judge Robinson has been assigned to the Imperial Immigration Court and will begin hearing cases in January of 2020. Judge Robinson graduated from the University of South Carolina , obtained his Juris Doctor in 1990 from Howard University School of Law and a Master of Laws from the U.S. Army. He served as judge advocate at Yuma Marine Corps Air Station from 1991 to 2005. 

The Friday investiture brings the immigration judge corps to it's highest level in history with more than 465 immigration judges on the bench.