Ramin Fatehi
The Honorable Ramin Fatehi, a Hampton Roads native, has served Norfolk as Commonwealth's Attorney since 2022 and has been a prosecutor since 2006.
Prior to his service in Norfolk, Mr. Fatehi was an Assistant Public Defender in Richmond, an Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney in Chesapeake, and a Special Assistant United States Attorney in Charlottesville.
Before his election, Mr. Fatehi supervised a team of lawyers and staff in the Norfolk office responsible for prosecuting drug offenses, intoxicated driving, and fatal auto crashes. Mr. Fatehi strives to ensure that every accused person is treated as a person on his or her own merits, that every grieving victim feels as if the system is doing what it can to make them whole, and that the community feels as if there is a single kind of justice for all accused persons independent of their race, their parents, their wealth, or their ZIP code.