Jessie Cook

Jessie A. Cook represents individuals accused of major felonies in state and federal courts. She graduated from IU Maurer School of Law (1979, cum laude), the National College of Criminal Defense and the Darrow College of Capital Defense. She teaches advanced trial advocacy at the Maurer School of Law- Bloomington, and for various continuing legal education programs including the Federal Defender Organization, the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, and ICLEF’s Trial Advocacy Skills College. Jessie is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a member of its Access to Justice Committee. She served on the Indiana Supreme Court 's Rules Committee for ten years and chaired the Committee for the last five of those years. She is a founding member and former board member of the Indiana Federal Community Defenders, Inc., a Master Life Fellow and former Board member of the Indiana Bar Foundation, and a long-time member of the ISBA and its Criminal Justice Section's governing Council and has previously served as a member of the ISBA'S Board of Governors and chaired its House of Delegates, She is a member of NACDL, NLG, NAACP and the ACLU. Jessie was the 2008 recipient of the IPDC’s Gideon Award, the 2013 recipient of the ISBA's“GP Hall of Fame Award” for excellence in general practice, and the 2014 recipient of the IFCD's Thurgood Marshall award for indigent defense in federal court.

Indiana

Indiana Supreme Court

Since 1979

7th Circuit

Since 1984

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Since 1979

U.S. Supreme Court

Since 1998

United States District Court for the District of North Dakota

Since 2017

American College of Trial Lawyers

Fellow

2005 - Current

Activities: Member, Access to Justice Committee

Indiana State Bar

Member

1980 - Current

Activities: Council Member, Criminal Justice Section; Former Member Board of Governors; Former Chair Criminal Justice Section

National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

Member

1980 - Current

National Lawyers Guild

Member

1980 - Current

Indiana Supreme Court Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure

Member and Chair

2007 - 2017

Activities: Chair, Rules Committee from 2012 - 2017

Indiana Federal Community Defenders, Inc.

Former Board Member

2012 - 2016

Activities: Former Board Member also 1993-1999