Friday, April 26, 2013
Speaking to the largest graduating class in Savannah State University history, Retired Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears of the Georgia Supreme Court is guest speaker at SSU's 182nd commencement ceremony at 9 a.m., Saturday, May 4, 2013, in T.A. Wright Stadium.
More than 350 students will receive undergraduate and graduate degrees during the ceremony — the largest graduating class in SSU history.
By the appointment of former Gov. Zell Miller in 1992, she became the first woman and youngest person ever to sit on the Georgia Supreme Court. In retaining her Supreme Court post later that year, Sears also became the first woman in Georgia to win a contested statewide election.
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