Thursday March 25, 2010
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Section: General
Bulloch Democrats Membership Meeting
by bullochdemocrats

When: March 25, 2010
06:00 PM to 07:30 PM
Where: Sorrier Community Room within the Statesboro Regional Library
Phone: 912-842-2004
Address: 124 S. Main St
Statesboro, GA 30458
URL: http://www.bullochdemocrats.com/

Description: Please join the Democratic Party of Bulloch County on Thursday, March 25th from 6:00 – 7:30 pm at the Isabel Sorrier Community Room in the Statesboro Regional Library (124 S Main Street) for a special program celebrating the 30th anniversary of the National Women’s History Project (http://www.nwhp.org/). O ur guest speaker is Dr. Rebecca Shriver Davis who will discuss Justice Leah Ward Sears. Sears may again be a Supreme Court nominee with the potential retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens. In 1992, when Sears was appointed by Georgia governor Zell Miller, she “became the first woman and the youngest justice to sit on the Supreme Court of Georgia. Thirteen years later, in 2005, Sears was elected as chief justice, becoming the first African American woman to serve as chief justice of any state supreme court in the United States. … In May 2009 Sears was considered as a potential replacement for retiring U.S. Supreme Court justice David Souter, but Sonia Sotomayor ultimately secured the nomination. That same month, Sears announced that in October 2009 she would join the law firm of Schiff Hardin in Atlanta.” (http://www.georgiaencyclo pedia.org/nge/Article.jsp? id=h-3724&hl=y). Professo r Davis is currently writing a biography of Leah Ward Sears, the nation's first African-American woman Chief Justice of a state's highest court. Dr. Davis is an associate professor of political science and the director of the Office of Pre-Law Advising at Georgia Southern University. She holds an M.A. in Political Science from Georgia Southern University and a J.D. from the University of Georgia. Please join us to hear more about one of Georgia's great women and just maybe, the next U.S. Supreme Court Justice!!! Treats will be provided by a good Democrat, Ms. Jocelyn Poole, a woman entrepreneur and co-owner of the new Caribbean Feast Restaurant right here in the 'boro.


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