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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">From:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"> Leonard, J. Rich <leonardjr@campbell.edu>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 15, 2023 11:25 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Law School - Faculty & Staff <LawSchool-All@campbell.edu>; Law School - All Adjunct Faculty <LawSchool-AdjunctFaculty@campbell.edu>; lawBOV@list.campbell.edu<br>
<b>Cc:</b> lawstudents@list.campbell.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Campbell Proud<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#596063;mso-ligatures:none">Delighted to share this news about one of our distinguished alumna. With her appointment, Campbell graduates will now be the Chief Judge of the District Court, the Senior
Resident Superior Court Judge (Paul Ridgeway) and the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals (Donna Stroud).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#596063;mso-ligatures:none">Dean Leonard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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December 15, 2023, Press Release<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:46.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-ligatures:none">Chief Justice Paul Newby Appoints Margaret Eagles as Chief District Court Judge for Wake County<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:#181919;mso-ligatures:none">Judge Eagles will begin serving as chief district court judge February 1, 2024.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#181919;mso-ligatures:none"><img width="480" height="270" style="width:5.0in;height:2.8125in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01DA2F49.51D56AB0" alt="Wake County Chief District Court Judge Margaret Eagles"></span><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#181919;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:28.5pt"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#181919;mso-ligatures:none"> <a href="https://www.nccourts.gov/judicial-directory/paul-newby" target="_blank"><span style="color:#002F87">Chief
Justice Paul Newby</span></a> has appointed Wake County District Court Judge Margaret Eagles to serve as chief district court judge for <a href="https://www.nccourts.gov/locations/wake-county" target="_blank"><span style="color:#002F87">Wake County</span></a> effective
February 1, 2024. Judge Eagles will fill the vacancy left by Chief District Court Judge Ned Mangum who will retire at that time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:28.5pt"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#181919;mso-ligatures:none">"I am confident that Judge Eagles will continue to serve her community well in her new administrative capacity
in Wake County," said Chief Justice Newby. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:28.5pt"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#181919;mso-ligatures:none">Judge Eagles has served as a district court Judge since 2009. She has served in the Abuse, Neglect and Dependency
Courtroom for two years, addressing allegations of children being abused or neglected. During that time, she earned her Judicial Juvenile Certification. She has presided in both the criminal and civil domestic violence courtrooms since 2011 and is currently
the lead domestic violence judge in Wake County.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#181919;mso-ligatures:none">Upon graduation from Campbell Law, she began her legal career as a judicial clerk for Justice George Wainwright at the <a href="https://www.nccourts.gov/courts/supreme-court" target="_blank"><span style="color:#002F87">Supreme
Court of North Carolina</span></a>. After her clerkship, Judge Eagles worked in the North Carolina Department of Justice as an assistant attorney general. In 2005, Judge Eagles joined Larcade & Heiskell, PLLC where she primarily focused on civil litigation.
In 2009, she was appointed as a Wake County district court judge by former North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue. Judge Eagles was subsequently elected in 2010 and re-elected in 2014 and again in 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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