How do judges of the Michigan Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Michigan Court of Appeals / Joined 1982 / Served to 2002

Harold Hood

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Harold Hood was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1982–2002 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hood authored 209 published opinions for the court (1982–2001), plus 17 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Dalessandro (112 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 158 of these were attributed to Hood by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1988	People v. Dalessandro†	419 N.W.2d 609	112
1993	People v. DeLisle†	509 N.W.2d 885	105
1983	Goins v. Ford Motor Co.†	347 N.W.2d 184	96
1997	Joerger v. Gordon Food Service, Inc†	568 N.W.2d 365	75
1984	Brewer v. Perrin	349 N.W.2d 198	73
1983	Dairyland Insurance v. Auto-Owners Insurance†	333 N.W.2d 322	64
1995	People v. Corteway· Dissent†	538 N.W.2d 60	62
1986	Latimer v. William Mueller & Son, Inc.†	386 N.W.2d 618	58
1997	People v. Leonard†	569 N.W.2d 663	57
1992	People v. Passeno†	489 N.W.2d 152	53
1984	King v. General Motors Corp.	356 N.W.2d 626	53
1985	Lincoln v. Gupta	370 N.W.2d 312	51
1984	Central Transport, Inc. v. Fruehauf Corp.	362 N.W.2d 823	50
2000	Staff v. Johnson†	619 N.W.2d 57	49
1998	Northwestern National Casualty Co. v. Commissioner of Insurance	586 N.W.2d 563	48

Showing the 15 most-cited of 239 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Michigan Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Harold Hood on?: Harold Hood was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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20 years on the Michigan Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).