Justice Leah Ward Sears - Rebecca Davis

Justice Leah Ward Sears

Seizing Serendipity

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
208 Seiten
2017
University of Georgia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8203-5165-0 (ISBN)
37,35 inkl. MwSt
The first full biography of Justice Leah Ward Sears. As this 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, a capacity for gruelling hard work, and a relentless drive to succeed, as well as a strict devotion to judicial independence and the rule of law.
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.,br>
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.,br.
As a woman, an African American, a lawyer, and a judge, Sears has known successes as well as setbacks. ,em>Justice Leah Ward Sears shows that despite political targeting, the death of her beloved father, a painful divorce, and a brother’s suicide, she has persevered and prevailed.

Rebecca Shriver Davis is an associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology and founding director of the Office of Pre-Law Advising at Georgia Southern University. She is the coauthor of Judge Faye Sanders Martin: Head Full of Sense, Heart Full of Gold.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 14 black & white images
Verlagsort Georgia
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 460 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-8203-5165-2 / 0820351652
ISBN-13 978-0-8203-5165-0 / 9780820351650
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