Catherine Diane Caldwell Eagles (born August 30, 1958) is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina and a former Superior Court judge in Guilford County, North Carolina. She is the first female judge to serve in the Middle District.

Catherine Caldwell Eagles
North Carolina Middle District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina
Born 1958 in Memphis, TN
FJC ID: 3336
- Gender
- Female
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- North Carolina Superior CourtResident judge · 1993–2010
- ↳senior resident judge · 2006–2010
- Private practice, Greensboro, North Carolina1984–1993
Law clerk , Hon. J. Smith Henley · 1983–1984
Staff law clerk · 1982–1983
Appointments
2010–2024 · Appointed by Barack Obama (Democratic)
Education
J.D. · 1982- Southwestern at Memphis (now Rhodes College)B.A. · 1979