Karen Fort Hood

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Karen Fort Hood

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Prior offices
Michigan 1st District Court of Appeals
Successor: Noah Hood

Education

Bachelor's

Regents College of the State University of New York, Albany, 1980

Law

Detroit College of Law, 1989

Karen Fort Hood was a judge of the Michigan 1st District Court of Appeals. She assumed office in 2003. She died while in office on August 15, 2021.[1]

Education

Hood received her undergraduate degree in 1980 from the Regents College of the State University of New York at Albany. She earned her J.D. in 1989 from the Detroit College of Law.[2]

Career

Prior to her election to the Michigan Court of Appeals, Hood served as a judge for the Wayne Circuit Court (3rd Circuit Court). She also previously served on the Recorder's Court bench and as an assistant prosecuting attorney and special assistant prosecutor for the Wayne County Prosecutor’s office.[3]

Awards and associations

  • Member, Association of Black Judges of Michigan
  • Member, Wolverine Bar Association
  • Member, National Bar Association
  • Member, Michigan Association of Drug Court Professionals[2]

Elections

2020

See also: Michigan intermediate appellate court elections, 2020

General election

General election for Michigan 1st District Court of Appeals (3 seats)

Incumbent Karen Fort Hood, incumbent Christopher Murray, and incumbent Anica Letica won election in the general election for Michigan 1st District Court of Appeals on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Karen Fort Hood (Nonpartisan)
 
37.9
 
594,032
Image of Christopher Murray
Christopher Murray (Nonpartisan)
 
31.8
 
497,982
Anica Letica (Nonpartisan)
 
30.3
 
475,710

Total votes: 1,567,724
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Campaign finance

2014

See also: Michigan judicial elections, 2014
Hood ran for re-election to the First District Court of Appeals.
General: She was unopposed in the general election on November 4, 2014. [4] 

Campaign themes

2020

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Noteworthy cases

Rights of illegitimate child same as rights of legitimate child

According to the Michigan Court of Appeals, a father may be held responsible for retroactive child support to an adult child. The Michigan Court of Appeals affirmed a decision by Kent County Circuit Judge Paul Sullivan in favor of a 21-year-old woman's claim that she was owed retroactive child support by her father, a Grand Rapids pharmacist. The total support would be based on the father's growing income since his graduation from pharmacology school. Appeals court judges Jessica Cooper, Peter O'Connell, and Karen Fort Hood noted in their opinion that the rights of illegitimate children must be equal to those of legitimate children.[5]

Political affiliation and campaign contributions

Hood primarily contributed to Democratic candidates, but she contributed to Republicans as well.[6]

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