found: Alarcon, A.L. Oral history interview with Arthur L. Alarcon ... 1988?:leaf 31, etc. (Cecil F. Poole, Cecil Poole; legal sec. for Calif. Gov. Edmund G. Brown, Sr.)
found: WW Black Amer., 1988(Poole, Cecil F., judge; b. March 1914, Birmingham, Ala; clemency sec. to Gov. Brown of Calif., 1959-61; U.S. Circuit Ct.: circuit judge 9th circuit, 1979- ; lives in San Francisco, Calif.)
found: Who was who in America, 1996-1998:(Poole, Cecil F.; circuit court judge; born, Birmingham, Ala., 1914; LL.B., University of Michigan; LL.M., Harvard University, 1939; practiced law in San Francisco; assistant district attorney, 1951-1958; US attorney, Northern District California, 1961-1970; regents prof. Law, Univ. Calif. Berkeley, 1970; counsel, firm of Jacobs, Sills & Coblentz, San Francisco, 1970-1976; US District Judge, Northern District California, 1976-1979; died: November 12, 1997)
found: African American National Biography, accessed April 20, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Poole, Cecil F.; lawyer, judge, soldier; born 14 July, 1914, in Birmingham, Alabama, United States; law degree from University of Michigan (1938); master of law from Harvard University (1939); passed the Pennsylvania bar (1940); was an attorney for National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) (1941) and staff sergeant in the U.S. army (1942-1946); passed the California bar; became an assistant district attorney (1949), Clemency Secretary to the Governor of California (1958-1961), U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California (1961-1969); was appointed to U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (1976), to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1979) and assumed senior judge status (1996); served as director of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Reform Fund (1971-1976) and was an adjunct professor at the University of California at Berkley (1970-1976); became a member of the National Urban League and American Bar Association; died 12 November 1997 in Kentfield, California, United States)