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    Leah Ward Sears (née Leah Jeanette Sears; born June 13, 1955) is an American jurist and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia. Sears was...
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  • Yitzhak Rabin Leah Rosenthal (1879–1930), Australian nurse who served in World War I Leah Ward Sears (born 1955), American judge Leah Applebaum, American...
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    on August 13, 2009, to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Leah Ward Sears. He took office on September 3, 2009, and won re-election in November...
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    candidates under serious consideration by the White House. Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears of the Georgia Supreme Court, Judge Merrick B. Garland of the United...
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    Austin H. Kiplinger, Jules Kroll, Drew Nieporent, Jeremy Schaap, Leah Ward Sears, Jay Walker, Seth Harris, E. B. White, Ben Scrivens, and others. Collegiate...
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    Jr. 1994 1995 Robert Benham 1995 2001 Norman S. Fletcher 2001 2005 Leah Ward Sears 2005 2009 Carol W. Hunstein 2009 2012 George H. Carley 2012 2012 Carol...
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  • – judge, United States District Court for the District of Delaware Leah Ward Sears (1995, LL.M) – chief justice, Georgia Supreme Court G. Kendall Sharp...
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  • administrations of Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush Leah Ward Sears, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia Francis Shackelford...
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  • Basketball Premier League Avon Riley, former professional football player Leah Ward Sears, former Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court Jason Shiell, former...
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  • Nigeria 1955 – Alan Hansen, Scottish footballer and sportscaster 1955 – Leah Ward Sears, German-American lawyer and jurist 1956 – Blair Chapman, Canadian ice...
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    Flanagan Saddler Xi Omega District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Leah Ward Sears Mu Upsilon first African-American woman Chief Supreme Court Justice...
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    commentator Bruce Feiler, former Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court Leah Ward Sears, and former Georgia Governor, United States Secretary of Agriculture...
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    June 2009, Hunstein was unanimously elected to replace the retiring Leah Ward Sears as chief justice. Hunstein served from July 2009 until August 2013...
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    Riley in 1982 First African American female to serve as chief justice: Leah Ward Sears (1980) in 2005 First openly lesbian: Virginia Linder (1980) in 2007...
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  • instead nominate Frank M. Hull to the post. The other finalists were Leah Ward Sears and U.S. District Judge Clarence Cooper, according to a May 3, 1997...
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    Hunstein, Leah Ward Sears, George H. Carley, Hugh P. Thompson, P. Harris Hines Case opinions Majority Benham, joined by Fletcher, Hunstein, Sears, Thompson...
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  • Dorothy Robinson in 1985 First African American female (superior court): Leah Ward Sears (1980) in 1988 First African American female (Chief Presiding Judge...
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  • on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey Leah Ward Sears (JD 1980) – former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia; first...
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    Mary Margaret Oliver, state representative and former state senator Leah Ward Sears, former associate justice of the Georgia Supreme Court (1992–2005)...
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    Patterson (J.D. 1983) – associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court Leah Ward Sears (B.S. 1976) – chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia Miriam...
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    United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia Leah Ward Sears, former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia Abdullahi Ahmed...
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  • States District Court for the Central District of California judge Leah Ward Sears (1976) – Chief Justice (2005–2009) and Justice (1992–2005) of the Supreme...
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    received the endorsements of former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears, the first African-American female Chief Justice in the United States...
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  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri Leah Ward Sears, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia George Ernest...
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  • 2020 Florida Renatha Francis 2022 Florida Meredith Sasso 2023 Georgia Leah Ward Sears 1992 Georgia Carol W. Hunstein 1992 Georgia Britt Grant 2017 Georgia...
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  • 1990 2005 2001–2005 Carol W. Hunstein 1992 2018 2009–2012 2012–2013 Leah Ward Sears 1992 2009 2005–2009 George H. Carley 1993 2012 2012–2012 Hugh P. Thompson...
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    Frank, a disgraced journalist who blackmails the Bassingtons. Leah McNamara as Kellie Ann Ward, JP's daughter who attempts to steal generators from Susie's...
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  • Virginia; Sable-Smith, Bram. "Beyond The Bench: Former Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears On A Life Of Breaking Barriers". www.gpbnews.org. Archived from the...
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  • Hunstein, Robert Benham, Harold Clarke, Norman Fletcher, Willis Hunt and Leah Ward Sears. Carley became the first justice to serve as Chief Justice and presiding...
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  • Fletcher was born in Fitzgerald, Georgia, to Frank Pickett Fletcher and Hattie Sears Fletcher. He attended the University of Georgia where he was a member of...
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