Sidney S. "Sid" Eagles Jr. served as a judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals from 1983 until January 2004. At the time of his retirement, Eagles was serving as Chief Judge of that court. Before his judicial service, Eagles worked as counsel to the Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives and as a special deputy

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. A graduate of Wake Forest University and the

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, Judge Eagles has served as a member of the Board of Visitors for the Wake Forest University School of Law and as Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of Barton College. He is a retired

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in the

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, where he was awarded the

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upon his retirement. Today Eagles is Retired Counsel of the law firm Fox Rothschild. His practice focuses on alternative dispute resolution.

References

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