Jim Hood
| Jim Hood | |
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| 39th Attorney General of Mississippi | |
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Assumed office January 14, 2004 |
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| Governor |
Haley Barbour Phil Bryant |
| Preceded by | Mike Moore |
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| Born |
James Matthew Hood May 15, 1962 New Houlka, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Debra Lynn Hood |
| Children | 3 |
| Education |
University of Mississippi, Oxford (BA, JD) |
James Matthew "Jim" Hood (born May 15, 1962) is the Attorney General of the US state of Mississippi. A Democrat, he was elected in 2003, having defeated the Republican nominee Scott Newton. A former District Attorney, Hood succeeded Mike Moore. He is currently the only elected Democrat holding statewide office in Mississippi.
Hood is a native of New Houlka in Chickasaw County in northeastern Mississippi.
In 1988, Hood received his J.D. from the University of Mississippi at Oxford. As an undergraduate, Hood was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha.
In 2005, Hood prosecuted former Klansman Edgar Ray Killen for orchestrating the 1964 murders of Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney in Philadelphia, Mississippi during Freedom Summer.
Hood has been active in the legal aspects of the recovery of Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina. Shortly after Katrina, Hood partnered with Mississippi plaintiff attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, a brother-in-law of former U.S. Senator Trent Lott, in filing suit against numerous high-profile insurance companies. Hood's leadership has been praised by some as allowing homeowners a better opportunity for recovery than they experienced in neighboring Louisiana, but Scruggs and Hood have also been criticized for over-zealously prosecuting insurance companies and because Scruggs helped convey confidential documents, which Hood used in a criminal probe, supposedly to pressure State Farm Insurance into settlement. Hood was reelected on November 6, 2007 and again for a third term on November 8, 2011. On November 3, 2015 Hood was reelected for his fourth term. He is currently the only Democrat to hold statewide office in Mississippi.
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