title: Justice Leah Ward Sears: Seizing Serendipity
author: Rebecca Davis
description: "This brief but engaging biography shares many stories. . . . [Davis] did extensive interviews with Sears and her family, friends, and colleagues, which paint an absorbing picture of Sears's personal and public life. The book also details Sears's judicial thought and discusses notable cases over which she presided, which is the account's most intriguing aspect. . . . This book will interest a variety of readers, from history buffs to anyone interested in Georgia's judicial system." --<i>Library Journal</i><br /><br /><span><i>"Justice Leah Ward Sears</i> is important not only because it tells Justice Sears's remarkable personal story and discusses her many contributions to law and history but also because it does all of that in the context of political, legal, and electoral events important to all of us. The book accomplishes the difficult task of telling the personal and inspirational story of a brilliant African American woman while also discussing some of the most difficult issues of our time. I recommend <i>Justice Leah Ward Sears</i> to anyone interested in women's history, African American history, and biographies of extraordinary people."<br />--Angela J. Davis, author of <i>Arbitrary Justice: The Power of the American Prosecutor</i></span>
zlib_text: **And Justice There Is None**
  
   **Deborah Crombie**
  
  Bantam Books
  
   _For Nanny_
  
   **MILLENNIUM**
  
  "The sun no longer shows
  
  His face; and treason sows
  
  His secret seeds that no man can detect;
  
  Fathers by their children are undone;
  
  The brother would the brother cheat;
  
  And the cowled monk is a deceit…
  
  Might is right, and justice there is none."
  
  —Walther von der Vogelweide
  
  c. 1170-1230
  
   **ACKNOWLEDGMENTS**
  
  Many thanks are due, as always, to the _Every Other Tuesday Night Writer's
  Group:_ Steve Copling, Dale Denton, Jim Evans, Diane Sullivan Hale, John
  Hardie, Viqui Litman, Rickey Thornton, and Milan Vesely, with added
  appreciation to Diane Sullivan Hale, RN, BSN, for her advice on medical
  matters. Thanks as well to Carol Chase and Marcia Talley for their inspiration
  and input; to Connie Munro for her astute copy edit; to Glen Edelstein for the
  book design; to Jamie Warren Youll for the jacket design; to Kate Miciak, my
  editor at Bantam, for simply being the best; and to Nancy Yost