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- 1 2 "Official biography of Judge Mitchell from the Oklahoma Bar Association". Archived from the original on 2008-12-04. Retrieved 2010-02-23.
- ↑ 2004 Court of Civil Appeals election results. Archived 2008-02-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Information about the Court of Civil Appeals Archived 2011-04-14 at the Wayback Machine see pg. 13
- ↑ League of Women Voters. "Judge E. Bay Mitchell, III, Court of Civil Appeals, District 6, Office 1 Judicial Retention 2012." 2012. Accessed May 3, 2018.
