About 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 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. She then became a Superior Court judge in 1988, becoming the first African-American woman to hold that position in the state. At Cornell, Sears became a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority and the Quill and Dagger society.
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