Personal
Wood is married to Robert L. Sufit, a professor of neurology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, to whom she was introduced by her fellow Seventh Circuit Judge Ilana Rovner. She previously was married in 1978 to Dennis Hutchinson, a professor at the University of Chicago School of Law. Wood married her first husband, Steve Van, while both were students in law school. Wood has three children with Hutchinson and three stepchildren. She plays oboe and English horn in the North Shore Chamber Orchestra in Evanston, Illinois and in the Chicago Bar Association Symphony Orchestra in Chicago, Illinois.
Wood lives in Hinsdale, Illinois and is Protestant.
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