Leah Ward Sears, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Leah Ward Sears

American lawyer

Date of Birth: 13-Jun-1955

Place of Birth: Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Profession: judge, lawyer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Leah Ward Sears (born June 13, 1955) is an American jurist and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.
Sears was the first African-American female chief justice of a state supreme court in the United States.
When she was first appointed as justice in 1992 by Governor Zell Miller, she became the first woman and youngest person to sit on Georgia's Supreme Court.