Catherine Eagles
Catherine Caldwell Eagles (born 1958) is a Superior Court judge in Guilford County, North Carolina and a federal judicial nominee for the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina.
Early Life and Education
Eagles was born Catherine Diane Caldwell in Memphis, Tennessee in 1958.[1] She graduated from Rhodes College in 1979 with a bachelor's degree.[1] In 1982 she earned a law degree from George Washington University.[1]
Legal Career
After law school, Eagles served as a staff law clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and as a clerk to judge J. Smith Henley.[1]
After her clerkship, Eagles worked for 12 years as an associate and partner at Smith, Helms, Mullis & Moore in Greensboro, North Carolina.[1] In 1993 she was appointed to a seat as a resident superior court judge based in Greensboro.[2] She was elected to serve the remainder of the term in 1994 and re-elected in 1996 and 2002 to eight-year terms.[2] In 2006 she became the senior resident superior court judge in Guilford County.[2]
Federal judicial nomination
On March 10, 2010 President Barack Obama nominated Eagles to a seat in the Middle District of North Carolina that came open when N. Carlton Tilley assumed senior status. Eagles had a hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 16, 2010 and her nomination was reported to the full Senate on May 6, 2010.
References
- ^ a b c d e http://judiciary.senate.gov/nominations/111thCongressJudicialNominations/upload/CatherineEagles-PublicQuestionnaire.pdf> (March 1, 2010). Cite error: The named reference "Nomination_materials" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ a b c http://www.nccourts.org/County/Guilford/Staff/SCJudges/ceagles.asp>