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- ↑ "Justice Adams Announces Retirement; Circuit Judge Ralph Cook is Appointed" (PDF). Alabama Court News. October 1993.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Justices have much in common", The Montgomery Advertiser (October 31, 1993), p. 1B, 6B.
- 1 2 3 "RALPH D. COOK: Associate Justice - 1993-2001" (PDF). Judiciary of Alabama. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
- ↑ "City official accepts post in Alabama", The Berkeley Gazette (December 7, 1973), p. 1.
- ↑ "Bessemer judge new Miles dean of law", Birmingham Post-Herald (September 16, 1976), p. A7.
- 1 2 3 Phillip Rawls, "Ralph Cook becomes second black on state Supreme Court", Birmingham Post-Herald (November 2, 1993), p. D4.
- ↑ Bob Johnson, "Cook, Kennedy win court races", Birmingham Post-Herald (November 10, 1994), p. C1.
- ↑ Kirkland, Kay (November 8, 2000). "Coffee County favors Bush". The Southeast Sun.