Leah Ward Sears, German-American lawyer and jurist

Leah Ward Sears

American judge from Georgia (born 1955)

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…