James Chris Cacheris (March 30, 1933 – April 29, 2025) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
James Chris Cacheris
Virginia Eastern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
Born 1933 in Pittsburgh, PA
Died 2025
FJC ID: 345
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 2/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 30/year
Virginia Eastern District Court · 1981–2018
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
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Virginia Circuit Court, Nineteenth Judicial CircuitJudge · 1971–1981
- Private practice, Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia1962–1971
- Washington, D.C.Assistant corporation counsel · 1960–1962
Appointments
1981–2018 · Appointed by Ronald Reagan (Republican)Term ended: Retirement
Education
J.D. · 1960- University of PennsylvaniaB.S. · 1955