Leah Ward Sears
Judge
1955 –
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Who is Leah Ward Sears?
Leah Ward Sears is an American jurist and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia. Sears was the first African-American female Chief Justice in the United States. When she was first appointed as justice in 1992 by Governor Zell Miller, she became the first woman and youngest person to sit on the Georgia's Supreme Court.
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- Born
- Jun 13, 1955
Heidelberg - Parents
- Spouses
- Haskell Ward
(1999/04/19 - ) - Love Collins III
(1976/07/03 - 1994)
- Haskell Ward
- Children
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor of Science, Cornell University
( - 1976) - Juris Doctor, Emory University School of Law
( - 1980) - Master of Laws, University of Virginia
( - 1995) - University of Virginia School of Law
- Emory University
- Bachelor of Science, Cornell University
- Employment
- Adjunct Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law
- Alston & Bird LLP
- Lived in
- Atlanta
- Savannah
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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