After serving on the Georgia Supreme Court for the last 17 years, Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears gave her final State of the Judiciary System address Wednesday at the State Capitol. The last five years Sears has been the chief justice and she’s retiring from that post in June.
She told lawmakers the court has made great strides in recent years.
She told lawmakers the court has made great strides in recent years.
“...When I step down, I will leave behind – according to a recent national study – the number one most productive Supreme Court in the country. That same study ranked Georgia’s high court as one of the five best state Supreme Courts in the nation...”But, Sears says, she hasn’t been able to accomplish all of her goals.
“I suppose my failure as Chief Justice was my inability to get our state’s judges a much-needed raise – a raise they have not had in more than a decade.”Sears says she doesn’t know what she’ll be doing once she retires from the court, but according to the Law School at the University of Maryland, she may become their next dean.
