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African American Issues Group Sun May 03rd 2009 06 45 AM Leah Ward Sears The daughter of U S Army Colonel Thomas E Sears and Onnye Jean Sears Justice Sears was born in Heidelberg Germany but the family eventually settled in Savannah Georgia where Leah Tags: Leah Ward Sears View |
Leah Ward Sears (born June 13, 1955) is an American jurist and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (State Supreme Court) of the U.S. (United States) state of Georgia (Georgia (U.S. state)). Sears was the first African-American female Chief Justice in the United States. When she was first appointed as justice in 1992 by then-Governor (Governors of Georgia) Zell Miller, she became the first woman and youngest person to sit on the Supreme Court of Georgia (Supreme Court of Georgia (U.S. state)).
Termstart: June 28, 2005
Termend: June 30, 2009
Appointer: Zell Miller
Date of birth: 1955-06-13
Birth Location: Heidelberg, Germany, Heidelberg, Germany
Spouse: Haskell Ward
Alma Mater: Cornell University,Emory University School of Law,University of Virginia School of Law
Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court (Supreme Court of Georgia (U.S. state))
Predceded by: Norman S. Fletcher
Succeeded by: Carol Hunstein