Meet the Acting U.S. Attorney

Randolph J. Bernard

Acting United States Attorney

Randolph J. Bernard serves as the Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia as of January 20, 2025. 

Mr. Bernard, who has served as the First Assistant United States Attorney since January 2018, previously served as Acting United States Attorney from February 2020 to October 2020.  Bernard also performed the duties of Deputy Chief and Chief of the Criminal Division for the years 2010 to 2018.

Mr. Bernard joined the office in 2002 and has prosecuted a wide range of criminal cases.  He has prosecuted large-scale drug cases, violent crimes, firearms offenses, white-collar matters, fraud and tax cases, and prosecutions involving the exploitation of children including child pornography matters.

Before becoming an Assistant United States Attorney, Mr. Bernard served as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the Wheeling, West Virginia Resident Agency. Prior to the FBI, he was a litigator with the law firm of Coolidge, Wall, Womsley & Lombard located in Dayton, Ohio.

Mr. Bernard is a 1987 magna cum laude graduate of Ohio Northern University College of Law and a 1984 graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania.