Leah Ward Sears

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Leah Ward Sears (born June 13 1955) 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.

alma mater

Emory University School of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, Cornell University

appointer

Zell Miller

birth date

1955-06-13

birth place

Germany, Heidelberg

order in office

30th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia

successor

Carol W. Hunstein