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Legends of the Atlanta Bar : Justice Leah Ward Sears ______________________________________________________________ One of Atlanta Bar ' s popular CLE series .
JENA G . EMORY Copeland Stair Valz & Lovell LLP jemory @ csvl . law
On Wednesday , May 18 , 2022 , Randy Kessler ( Kessler & Solomiany LLC ) interviewed Justice Leah Ward Sears ( Smith Gambrell & Russell LLP ) in the third installment of the Legends of the Bar CLE series . In this informal CLE series , Kessler has interviewed Atlanta Bar legends to provide insight into their careers through candid discussions of their experiences . Kessler ' s interview of Justice Sears did not disappoint .
Justice Sears was born in 1955 in post-war Germany . Her father was an officer stationed in Germany , and her mother was an elementary school teacher . She has two brothers . Her family ultimately settled in Savannah , Georgia . She attended Cornell University for her
12 June / July 2022