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520 a| Judge Leah Ward Sears was born on June 13, 1955 in Heidelberg, Germany. She attended public elementary and high schools in Savannah, Georgia. In 1976, Sears earned her B.S. degree at Cornell University and moved to Atlanta, where she attended Emory University to earn her J.D. degree. She would later earn her LL.M degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. In Atlanta, she worked as a trial lawyer for the law firm, Alston and Bird. In 1985, Mayor Andrew Young appointed her as a judge in Atlanta's City Traffic Court. In 1988, Sears was appointed a Superior Court judge for the state of Georgia, becoming the first African American woman to hold the position in Georgia. In February of 1992, Governor Zell Miller appointed Sears to Georgia's Supreme Court. She became the first woman and the youngest person ever to serve on Georgia's Supreme Court. Sears was chief justice from 2005 until 2009.;

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The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Leah Ward Sears.

Format	Video (Streaming)
Publication	Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description	1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 21 min., 20 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Content	https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2004.205
Subjects	Sears, Leah Ward, 1955---Interviews. African Americans--Interviews.

Other author/creator	Sears, Leah Ward, 1955- interviewee.
Other author/creator	Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Other author/creator	Melnick, Coy, director of photography.
Other author/creator	HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title	History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Leah Ward Sears
Portion of title	The Honorable Leah Ward Sears
Abstract	Judge Leah Ward Sears was born on June 13, 1955 in Heidelberg, Germany. She attended public elementary and high schools in Savannah, Georgia. In 1976, Sears earned her B.S. degree at Cornell University and moved to Atlanta, where she attended Emory University to earn her J.D. degree. She would later earn her LL.M degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. In Atlanta, she worked as a trial lawyer for the law firm, Alston and Bird. In 1985, Mayor Andrew Young appointed her as a judge in Atlanta's City Traffic Court. In 1988, Sears was appointed a Superior Court judge for the state of Georgia, becoming the first African American woman to hold the position in Georgia. In February of 1992, Governor Zell Miller appointed Sears to Georgia's Supreme Court. She became the first woman and the youngest person ever to serve on Georgia's Supreme Court. Sears was chief justice from 2005 until 2009.
Credits	Videographer, Coy Melnick.
Performer	Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event note	Recorded Atlanta, Georgia 2004 October 15.
Source of description	Vendor-supplied metadata.
Genre/form	Internet videos.
Genre/form	Interviews.
Genre/form	Nonfiction films.
Genre/form	Oral histories.
Genre/form	Oral histories.
Genre/form	Internet videos.
Genre/form	Nonfiction films.
Stock number	A2004.205 HistoryMakers

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