Background
Eagles, Catherine Caldwell was born on August 30, 1958 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Daughter of Marvin Bounds and Dorothy Carolyn (Reddell) Caldwell.
Eagles, Catherine Caldwell was born on August 30, 1958 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Daughter of Marvin Bounds and Dorothy Carolyn (Reddell) Caldwell.
Southwestern at Memphis (Bachelor of Arts, 1979). George Washington University (Juris Doctor, 1982). Phi Beta Kappa; Order of the Coif.
Member, George Washington Law Review, 1980-1982.
Law Clerk to Judge J. Smith Henley, United States. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, 1982-1984.
She is the first female judge to serve in the Middle District. In 1982, she earned a law degree from George Washington University Law School. 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.
After her clerkship, Eagles worked from 1984 to 1993 as an associate and partner at Smith, Helms, Mullis & Moore in Greensboro, North Carolina.
In 1993 she was appointed to a seat as a resident superior court judge based in Greensboro. She was elected to serve the remainder of the term in 1994 and re-elected in 1996 and 2004 to eight-year terms.
In 2006 she became the senior resident superior court judge in Guilford County. On March 10, 2010 President Barack Obama nominated Eagles to a seat in the Middle District of North Carolina that came open when North. 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.
The Senate approved her nomination on December 16, 2010, during the lame duck session of the 111th Congress. She received her commission on December 22, 2010. In 2012, she presided over United States. v.
Johnny Reid Edwards, where former presidential candidate and senator John Edwards was charged with campaign finance violations.
In January 2014, she struck down as unconstitutional a North Carolina law, similar to one ruled unconstitutional in Oklahoma, that would have required doctors and other authorized health care providers to perform an ultrasound, with the image placed in the woman"s line of sight and describe the image to the woman, even if the woman and doctor both object. The case was brought by doctors, who objected to being forced to deliver what they viewed as partisan messages with which they disagreed.
Defense Research Institute. Civil Litigation and Products Liability.
Married William A. Eagles, August 27, 1983. Children: John Ivey, Thad.