Heather Cook
Once a bishop, now a ‘poster child’ for alcoholism, Heather Cook seeks to make amends
By Adelle M. Banks — May 14, 2019
(RNS) — The first woman bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland was convicted of vehicular manslaughter, DUI, leaving the scene of an accident and driving while texting and was just released from prison.
Maryland bishop charged in DUI death is defrocked by Episcopal Church
By Kevin Eckstrom — May 1, 2015
WASHINGTON (RNS) Heather Cook faces manslaughter charges in a hit-and-run drunk driving accident, and church officials charged her with misrepresenting her battles with alcohol.
A bicyclist dead, the Episcopal Church takes a hard look at alcohol
By Lauren Markoe — February 12, 2015
WASHINGTON (RNS) Episcopalians sometimes joke that "Wherever two or three are gathered, there's usually a fifth" (of alcohol). With a bishop charged in a fatal hit-and-run, the church's ease with alcohol doesn't seem quite so funny.
Maryland diocese asks bishop involved in fatal DUI to resign
By Reuters — January 29, 2015
(Reuters) Bishop Suffragan Heather Cook, the diocese's first female bishop and second highest official, is charged with manslaughter in the hit-and-run death of cyclist Tom Palermo in Baltimore.
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