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Photograph of Justice Leah Ward Sears. She wears a dark judicial robe.Sears, the first woman and youngest justice to sit on the Supreme Court of Georgia, served as chief justice from 2005 to 2009.
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  1. African American Women Judges
  2. African American Women Lawyers
  3. African Americans
  4. Georgia
  5. Georgia. Supreme Court
  6. Judges
  7. Sears Collins, Leah
  8. Women

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