Joseph Martin Hood

{{Short description|American judge (born 1942)}} {{BLP sources|date=October 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Joseph Martin Hood | honorific_suffix = | image = Joseph M. Hood.jpg | alt = | caption = | office = Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky | term_start = October 14, 2007 | term_end = | office1 = Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky | term_start1 = 2005 | term_end1 = 2007 | predecessor1 = Karl Spillman Forester | successor1 = Jennifer B. Coffman | office2 = Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky | term_start2 = April 30, 1990 | term_end2 = October 14, 2007 | appointer2 = George H. W. Bush | predecessor2 = Scott Elgin Reed | successor2 = Amul Thapar | office3 = Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky | term_start3 = 1976 | term_end3 = 1990 | pronunciation = | birth_name = Joseph Martin Hood | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1942}} | birth_place = Ashland, Kentucky, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | citizenship = | party = | other_party = | height = | spouse = | partner = | relations = | children = | parents = | mother = | father = | relatives = | education = University of Kentucky (BS, JD) | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | known_for = | salary = | net_worth = | cabinet = | committees = | portfolio = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website =  | footnotes = }} '''Joseph Martin Hood''' (born 1942) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

==Education and career==

Born in Ashland, Kentucky, Hood received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Kentucky in 1965 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 1972. He was in the United States Army as a Captain from 1966 to 1970. He was a law clerk to Judge Howard David Hermansdorfer of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky from 1972 to 1976, and was then a United States magistrate judge for the same court from 1976 to 1990.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/hood-joseph-martin|title=Hood, Joseph Martin|website=www.fjc.gov|language=en|access-date=2017-05-01}}</ref>

==Federal judicial service== thumb|right|Judicial portrait of Hood, 2007, by Marcia Cone. On January 24, 1990, Hood was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky vacated by Judge Scott Elgin Reed. Hood was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 27, 1990, and received his commission on April 30, 1990. He served as Chief Judge from 2005 to 2007, assuming senior status on October 14, 2007.<ref name=":0" /> He has been a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States since 2016.

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==Sources== *{{FJC Bio|nid=1382371}}

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