Renate Jaeger (born 30 December 1940) is a German lawyer and a former judge of the European Court of Human Rights.
Jaeger was born in Darmstadt, a city in the state of Hesse, Germany, and studied law at Cologne, Munich and Lausanne.
On 28 April 2004, Jaeger was elected by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to be a judge on the European Court of Human Rights, based in Strasbourg, France, with effect from 1 November that year.
On 14 October, she received an honorary doctorate by the University of Münster, and that Autumn was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Großes Verdienstkreuz mit Stern und Schulterband).
Jaeger is a member of the board of trustees of Aktion Deutschland Hilft, an alliance of German emergency aid organisations.