Judge Michael J. Hood

Judge Hood took the bench in May of 2014. He serves as a felony judge in the Second Municipal District in Skokie, Illinois. Judge Hood also presides over the Second Municipal District Cook County Veterans Treatment Court.

Prior to the bench Judge Hood served as the Chief of Intelligence and Investigations at the Illinois Department of Corrections, as the Deputy Attorney General for Criminal Justice to the Illinois Attorney General and as an Assistant State’s Attorney for the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office.

Judge Hood served on active duty through the rank of Major in the United States Marine Corps. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Champaign and the DePaul College of Law.

He is married to Lindy and they have three children, Declan, Danny and Kelly.