William W. Hood III (born 1963) is an associate justice of the

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, having served in this position since 2014. Hood received a

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in International Relations, ''magna cum laude'', from

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in 1985, and a

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from the

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, where he was a member of the Virginia Law Review.Colorado Judicial Branch page on William W. Hood
Hood was in private practice with the law firm of Isaacson Rosenbaum, and was later a prosecutor with the 18th Judicial District Attorney's office for ten years, before becoming a Denver District Court judge in 2007. On October 25, 2013, Governor

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appointed Hood to the supreme court. Hood was reelected to a ten-year term in 2016.

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