Leah Ward Sears
Leah Ward Sears
Leah Ward Searsis 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 Georgia's Supreme Court...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJudge
Date of Birth13 June 1955
CountryUnited States of America
democracy human ideals ideas inside interested laws player reflect struggle
I've always been very interested in the struggle for human rights, not just here but abroad, and I wanted to be an inside player in that struggle. I wanted to make the laws reflect our ideals and ideas in this democracy that is America.
african-american
I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.