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 2002 / Active

Karen Fort Hood

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Karen Fort Hood is a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, serving since 2002. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2002 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hood authored 13 published opinions for the court (2003–2018), plus 2 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Doe v. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Detroit (84 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. 19 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
2005	Doe v. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Detroit· Concurrence†	692 N.W.2d 398	84
2015	in Re Gerald L Pollack Trust†	309 Mich. App. 125	60
2012	In re Moroun· Concurrence†	295 Mich. App. 312	60
2014	Diez v. Davey· Concurrence†	307 Mich. App. 366	36
2003	King v. Ford Motor Credit Co.†	668 N.W.2d 357	34
2018	Vhs Huron Valley Sinai Hospital v. Sentinel Insurance Company†	916 N.W.2d 218	33
2011	AFSCME Council 25 v. State Employees' Retirement System†	294 Mich. App. 1	29
2016	People v. Mysliwiec†	315 Mich. App. 414	20
2010	Michigan Basic Property Insurance v. Office of Financial & Insurance Regulation†	288 Mich. App. 552	20
2007	Johnson v. Johnson†	739 N.W.2d 877	17
2006	Valeo Switches & Detection Systems, Inc. v. EMCom, Inc.· Concurrence†	272 Mich. App. 309	16
2009	People v. Hill†	766 N.W.2d 17	11
2015	Jones v. Botsford Continuing Care Corporation†	310 Mich. App. 192	10
2014	Hanton v. Hantz Financial Services, Inc.†	306 Mich. App. 654	10
2003	Taxpayers of Michigan Against Casinos v. State†	657 N.W.2d 503	10

Showing the 15 most-cited of 19 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 is Karen Fort Hood on?: Karen Fort Hood is a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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24 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).