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Justice Leah Ward Sears : seizing serendipity / Rebecca Shriver Davis.
Author
Davis, Rebecca Shriver
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Language
English
Published/Created
Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]
Description
165 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Subject(s)
African American women judges
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Georgia
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Biography
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African American women lawyers
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Georgia
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Biography
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Women judges
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Georgia
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Biography
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Judges
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Georgia
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Biography
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Sears, Leah Ward 1955-
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Biographies
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Summary note
"This is the first full biography of Justice Leah Ward Sears. In 1992 Sears became the first woman and youngest justice to sit on the Supreme Court of Georgia. In 2005 she became the first African American woman to serve as chief justice of any state supreme court in the country. This book explores her childhood in a career military family; her education; her early work as an attorney; her rise through Georgia's city, county, and state court systems; and her various pursuits after leaving the supreme court in 2009, when she transitioned into a life that was no less active or public. As the biography recounts Sears's life and career, it is filled with instances of how Sears made her own luck by demonstrating a sharpness of mind and sagacious insight, a capacity for grueling hard work, and a relentless drive to succeed. Sears also maintained a strict devotion to judicial independence and the rule of law, which led to decisions that would surprise conservatives and liberals alike, earned the friendship of figures as diverse as Ambassador Andrew Young and Justice Clarence Thomas, and solidified a reputation that would land her on the short list of replacements for two retiring U.S. Supreme Court justices." -- -- Publisher's website.
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"A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication."
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-158) and index.
Contents
Introduction
Climb every mountain
An intellectual feast
Love, life, and death
The year of the woman
Not yet a pretty world
A splendid touch
Epilogue.
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Seizing serendipity
ISBN
9780820351650 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)
0820351652 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)
LCCN
2017009397
OCLC
975998329
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