Ronald Edward Hood (born 1969) is a former Republican legislator in the Ohio House of Representatives.

[2] In 1992, Hood ran for an open seat in the Ohio House of Representatives, but lost by a narrow margin.

In 2019 Ron Hood and Candice Keller sponsored legislation that would ban abortion in Ohio and require doctors to "reimplant" ectopic pregnancies into the uterus, which is not medically possible, or face charges for "abortion murder".

A later heartbeat bill introduced in the senate in 2019 was signed into law but did not take effect due to court action.

[6] On February 1, 2022, Hood announced that he would run for governor in the 2022 Ohio gubernatorial election.