Joseph Henry Hood

Sir Joseph Henry Hood (1 June 1846 – 29 January 1922) was a puisne judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria from 1890 to 1921.

Hood was born in Melbourne, a son of John Hood MLC and educated at Scotch College, of which he was dux in 1863, and had a brilliant scholastic career at Melbourne University, graduating BA in 1868, and was called to the Bar later that same year.

He had a large practice at the County Court, where he frequently had Frank Gavan Duffy as an adversary.

[1] During the "land boom" of the 1880s he shared much litigation work with John Madden, Henry Hodges and J. L.

He resigned from the bench in November 1921 due to poor health, having suffered a bout of pneumonia, and died a month later.