Bowling Green attorney Matthew P. Cook has been elected president of the Kentucky Bar Association.

Cook is a partner with the law firm Kerrick Bachert, which has offices in Bowling Green, Elizabethtown, and Glasgow.

He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville and is currently serving as vice president of the KBA. He will assume the role of president-elect in the summer of 2025 and begin his term as president on July 1, 2026.

Cook is a former president of the Bowling Green-Warren County Bar Association and is a past recipient of the KBA’s Outstanding Young Lawer Award and the Bowling Green-Warren County Bar’s Gwyneth Davis Outstanding Public Service Award. He previously served three terms on the KBA’s Board of Governors; chairs the KBA Rules Committee; and is a member of the KBA’s Budget and Finance Committee, Artificial Intelligence Task Force and the Kentucky Judicial Ethics Committee.