[2] Hood served as a delegate to four Democratic National Conventions.

Hood was a forceful champion of education for the underserved as well as for mental health services.

The decision that he would lay in state in the Capitol at his death was testimony to the esteem of his legislative colleagues.

He was the primary founder of the King-Chavez-Parks Initiative scholarship program.

His body lay in state in the Capitol rotunda, the first legislator to receive the honor.