What is Jim Hood?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Jim Hood |image = Jim Hood 2007.jpg |office = 39th [[Mississippi Attorney General|Attorney General of Mississippi]] |governor = [[Haley Barbour]]<br>[[Phil Bryant]] |term_start = January 13, 2004 |term_end = January 9, 2020 |predecessor = [[Mike Moore (U.S. politician)|Mike Moore]] |successor = [[Lynn Fitch]] |birth_name = James Matthew Hood |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1962|5|15}} |birth_place = [[New Houlka, Mississippi|New Houlka]], [[Mississippi]], [[United States|U.S.]] |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] |spouse = Debra Hood |children = 3 |education = [[University of Mississippi|University of Mississippi,<br>Oxford]] {{small|([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[Juris Doctor|JD]])}} }} '''James Matthew Hood''' (born May 15, 1962) is an American lawyer. He was the 39th [[Attorney General]] of [[Mississippi]]. He is a [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]]. He was elected in 2003 and left office in 2020. He was the Democratic nominee for [[Governor of Mississippi]] in [[Mississippi gubernatorial election, 2019|2019]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Associated Press |title=Hood, Reeves could headline 2019 governor’s race |url=http://msbusiness.com/2016/06/hood-reeves-could-headline-2019-governors-race/ |website=Mississippi Business Journal |access-date=5 July 2018 |date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=25 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625021700/http://msbusiness.com/2016/06/hood-reeves-could-headline-2019-governors-race/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> He lost the election to [[Tate Reeves]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/11/5/20947980/mississippi-governor-results-tate-reeves-republican |title=Republican Tate Reeves wins a surprisingly close race, becoming Mississippi’s next governor |last=Collins |first=Sean |date=2019-11-05 |work=Vox |access-date=2019-11-06 |language=en}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hood, Jim}} [[Cat