Denise Page Hood
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Denise Page Hood | |
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![]() Denise Page Hood at 2015 White House Forum on Increasing Access to Justice | |
Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan | |
Assumed office December 31, 2015 | |
Preceded by | Gerald Ellis Rosen |
Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan | |
Assumed office June 16, 1994 | |
Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
Preceded by | George E. Woods |
Personal details | |
Born | Denise Page Hood February 21, 1952 Columbus, Ohio, U.S. |
Education | Yale University (B.A.) Columbia Law School (J.D.) |
Denise Page Hood (born February 21, 1952) is the Chief United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.[1]
Education and career
Born in Columbus, Ohio, Hood received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University in 1974 and a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School in 1977. She was assistant corporation counsel to the Law Department of the City of Detroit, Michigan, from 1977 to 1982. She then held several state judicial positions, first on the 36th District Court of Michigan from 1983 to 1989, then on the Recorder's Court of the City of Detroit from 1989 to 1992, and lastly on the Michigan Circuit Court for Wayne County, Michigan, from 1993 to 1994.
Federal judicial service
On March 9, 1994, Hood was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan vacated by George E. Woods. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 15, 1994, and received her commission on June 16, 1994. She became Chief Judge on December 31, 2015.[2]
Sources
- Denise Page Hood at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
References
- 1952 births
- African-American judges
- American women judges
- Columbia Law School alumni
- Judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- Living people
- Michigan state court judges
- Lawyers from Columbus, Ohio
- United States district court judges appointed by Bill Clinton
- Yale University alumni
- 20th-century American judges
- 21st-century American judges
- 20th-century women judges
- 21st-century women judges