Sara J. Harper, Date of Birth

Sara J. Harper

American judge

Date of Birth: 10-Aug-1926

Profession: judge, lawyer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Sara J.
Harper (born August 10, 1926) is a former member of the Eighth District Court of Appeals. 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 also ran for a seat as a Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court in 1994.
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.
She also co-founded the first victims' rights program in the country.
Harper is a member of Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church in Cleveland.