Justice Leah Ward Sears: Seizing Serendipity
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (719 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0820351652 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 184 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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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
Justice Leah Ward Sears is important not only because it tells Justice Sears’s remarkable personal story and discusses her many contributions to law and history, but because it does all of that in the context of political, legal, and electoral events important to all of us. (Angela J. Davis author of Arbitrary Justice: The Power of the American Prosecutor) . I recommend Seizing Serendipity to anyone interested in women’s history, African American history, and biographies of extraordinary people. The book accomplishes the difficult task of telling the personal and inspirational story of a brilliant African American wo
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. 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.. 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 fa