Leah Ward Sears

Biography

Leah Ward Sears (née Leah Jeanette 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 of a state supreme court 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 Georgia's Supreme Court.

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