Judge Charles W. Cook

Charles W. Cook graduated from Shortridge High School in 1923 and received his bachelor of laws degree from Indiana University Law School in 1929.  During law school he served as a judicial law clerk for Judge Willis C. McMahan and Judge Charles Remy of the Appellate Court of Indiana. 

He began his law career with the firm of Bingham Mendenhall & Bingham, and in 1939 became a member of Bingham Cook & Bingham, where he practiced until 1949.  In 1949, he became senior partner in Cook & Mendenhall. 

From 1952 to 1959, he was general counsel of the Indiana Toll Road Commission.  He was executive director of the commission from 1959 to 1961.

Judge Cook was elected as a Republican to the Appellate Court in 1966.  He served on the court from January 1967 until his death in November 1968.

He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1960 and was named both a Sagamore of the Wabash and a Kentucky Colonel.  He was a member of the Salvation Army’s advisory board, the Indianapolis Athletic Club, the Columbia Club, the Elks Lodge, the YMCA, Delta Theta Phi legal fraternity, and the American, Indiana State and Indianapolis bar associations.

He died on November 21, 1968 in Indianapolis.  He was survived by his wife Gene and sons James and Michael.

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