Sears, Leah Ward, 1955-
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Variants
- Sears-Collins, Leah
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1955-06-13
Birth Place
- Heidelberg (Germany)
Occupation
Lawyers
Judges 2 lcsh
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Earlier Established Forms
- Sears-Collins, Leah
Sources
- found: Davis, Rebecca Shriver. Justice Leah Ward Sears, 2017:ECIP title page (Leah Ward Sears) ECIP text (Leah Jeanette Sears, born 1955 in Heidelberg, Germany; attended high school in Savannah, Georgia; law degree from Emory University; worked as attourney in Atlanta; Georgia Supreme Court justice, 1992-2009, chief justice until stepping down in 2009; while married to first husband Love Collins, changed name to Leah Sears-Collins; after divorce in 1994 returned to Leah Sears; married Haskell Ward in 1999)
- found: New Georgia Encyclopedia online, viewed February 27, 2017 (Leah Ward Sears; born 13 June 1955; first woman to sit on Supreme Court of Georgia; first African American woman to serve as chief justice of any state supreme court in the United States)
- found: Library of Congress Manuscript Division for the Papers of Juanita Kidd Stout, 1873-1998Leah Sears-Collins)
- found: Women of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., June 3, 2003(Leah Sears-Collins; first African-American woman to serve on the Georgia Supreme Court)
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Change Notes
- 2003-06-03: new
- 2017-02-28: revised
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