Not Even Women Judges Are Treated Equally
Does it ever get better for women in law?
I do wonder, Jesus, do you have to become chief justice to get the same respect as a first year white guy out of law school gets automatically?
— Leah Ward Sears, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, offering an exasperated comment on the way women in law are treated. Now that she has retired from the bench and is with a firm, she says she’s treated differently than other retired justices who are men. “When people encounter me, they don’t know what to say. I’ve been in groups of all retired judges, and it’s Judge this, and Judge that, and then, Leah,” she said. Judge Sears was the first woman to sit on Georgia’s Supreme Court, and the first African-American female chief justice in the U.S.
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