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100 1 $aDavis, Rebecca Shriver,$eauthor.
245 10 $aJustice Leah Ward Sears :$bseizing serendipity /$cRebecca Shriver Davis.
264 1 $aAthens :$bThe University of Georgia Press,$c[2017]
300 $a165 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $a"A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 133-158) and index.
520 $a"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.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Climb every mountain -- An intellectual feast -- Love, life, and death -- The year of the woman -- Not yet a pretty world -- A splendid touch -- Epilogue.
600 10 $aSears, Leah Ward,$d1955-
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650 0 $aWomen judges$zGeorgia$vBiography.
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