Claire Veronica Eagan (born October 9, 1950) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma and a former Judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Effective February 12, 2020, Chief Justice John G. Roberts appointed Judge Eagan as the chair of the Executive Committee of the Judicial Conference.
Claire Eagan
Oklahoma Northern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma
Born 1950 in Bronx, NY
FJC ID: 2896
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 4/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 9/year
Oklahoma Northern District Court · 2001–
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Female
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Judicial Conference of the United StatesMember · 2019–2023
- Private practice, Oklahoma1978–1998
Law clerk , Hon. Allen E. Barrow · 1976–1978
Appointments
- 2001–2022 · Appointed by George W. Bush (Republican)
Education
J.D. · 1976- Trinity College (now Trinity Washington University)B.A. · 1972