Dale R. Cathell (born July 30, 1937) is an American lawyer and jurist from Worcester County, Maryland. From 1998 to 2007 he was a judge on the Maryland Court of Appeals. Cathell was born in Berlin, Maryland and attended Stephen Decatur High School. He served in the United States Air Force from 1955-59. He then attended the University of Maryland, College Park from 1962-64. He earned his law degree from the Mt. Vernon School of Law (now part of the University of Baltimore) in 1967 and was admitted to the Maryland bar in the same year. He began as a judge in the state court system in 1981.