Sara J. Harper

Sara J. Harper (born August 10, 1926) is a former member of the Ohio Supreme Court.

Harper is African-American. She was raised in a public housing project in Cleveland, Ohio. Harper got her undergraduate and law degrees from Case Western Reserve University.

Harper worked as a prosecutor for the city of Cleveland in the 1960s. In 1970 she was appointed a judge of the Cleveland Municipal Court by Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes, a position to which she was elected for a six-year-term in 1971. In 1980 Harper was the Republican Candidate for Chief Justice of Ohio. She was president of the Cleveland branch of the NAACP for some of the 1980s. For a time she served in the United States Marine Corps judiciary. In 1990 she became a member of the Ohio Court of Appeals and in 1992 a member of the Ohio Supreme Court.

Harper is a member of Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church in Cleveland.

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