Jamar Kentrell Walker
How Judge Walker decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Procedural preferences
He holds ALJs to the 'accurate and logical bridge' standard and will not affirm a Social Security denial where the written decision is internally inconsistent: if an ALJ labels a medical-source opinion 'persuasive' but then adopts an RFC contrary to that opinion using the same supporting evidence, the failure to reconcile the two is reversible error under SSR 96-8P and 20 C.F.R. 416.920c(b). A claimant's brief/objection should pinpoint the specific contradiction between the ALJ's persuasiveness finding and the RFC narrative rather than re-arguing the weight of the evidence.
“In other words, the ALJ's decision employs the same reasoning to reach an opposite conclusion from NP Blowe's opinion. And the ALJ failed to reconcile why this reasoning supports his conclusion and not NP Blowe's conclusion.”
Motion outcomes
Counted from classified signed orders only. Percentages are shown only where the sample is large enough to be meaningful; smaller samples are reported as raw counts.
| Social security appeal N = 1 |
Granted: 1 | counts only |
A "1 of 1" is one ruling, not a tendency. Treat small samples as illustrative, not predictive.
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“The plaintiff's appeal of the Commissioner's final decision and request for a remand is GRANTED. The Commissioner's final decision is VACATED, and the case is REMANDED to the Social Security Administration for further proceedings consistent with this Opinion and Order.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Sample from search_dockets(assigned_judge='Jamar K. Walker'). His current (2026) assignments are dominated by pro se prisoner/civil-rights filings (many captioned 'Lewis v. ...') and a wave of 463 Habeas Corpus - Alien Detainee petitions in the Norfolk Division; older (2024) terminated cases include immigration mandamus/APA-delay suits, a Social Security appeal, a consumer-banking suit, and a criminal matter. Reflects current assignments for a judge who has been on the bench only since March 2023, not a tenure-wide caseload.