[Robert A Cook PE]

Gee, I am a brand new district attorney, only getting my law degree a few months before. But I am going to sign a high school yearbook with my name, then prominently add “D.A.” right after it?

Is it really a 1977 high school yearbook?

Why would a HS girl be carrying a year book issued for the previous year graduating class (for the typical May high school graduation of the 1977 class seniors) to a new lawyer for his signature in December?

From Judge Roy Moore's “suddenly edited” and very prejudiced Wikipedia page:

“Moore was discharged from the United States Army as a captain in 1974, and was admitted to the University of Alabama School of Law that same year. He graduated in 1977 with a Juris Doctor degree and returned to Gadsden to begin private practice with a focus on personal injury and insurance cases.

Moore soon moved to the district attorney's office, working as the first full-time prosecutor in Etowah County. “

Was he actually the District Attorney in December, 1977, or merely an junior ADA?

[Black Agnes]

IIRC he was never actually ‘the DA’.

[struggle]

ADA

[Bikkuri]

Assistant D.A., if I read all of the info correctly...

[cynwoody]

Was he actually the District Attorney in December, 1977, or merely an junior ADA?

According to his autobiography, Roy Moore was "sworn in as Etowah County's first full-time deputy district attorney on October 1, 1977."