# Sirce Owen **Status: stub — expand.** **Sirce E. Owen** is the **acting Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR)**, the [[Department of Justice]] component that runs the immigration courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals. She ran the office in an acting capacity through the first eight months of the second term, was succeeded by a confirmed-in-name director in October 2025, and returned to acting leadership in July 2026 after his resignation. Her earlier tenure was marked by a rapid series of policy memoranda rescinding prior EOIR guidance — the mechanism by which immigration-court practice can be redirected without rulemaking, because immigration judges are DOJ employees rather than Article III judges. ## See also - [[Department of Justice]] · [[DOJ Component Tree]] · [[Executive Office for Immigration Review]] - [[Immigration Removal Pipeline]] — the process map; Owen returned to acting leadership after Daren Margolin resigned effective July 18, 2026 - [[US Immigration Timeline]]