Randolph J. Bernard
Acting United States Attorney // Northern District of West Virginia
Randolph J. Bernard has served as the Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia since January 20, 2025.
Mr. Bernard has been with the office since 2002, and he previously held the position of First Assistant United States Attorney beginning in January 2018. He also served as Acting United States Attorney from February 2020 to October 2020. Additionally, Mr. Bernard fulfilled the roles of Deputy Chief and Chief of the Criminal Division from 2010 to 2018.
Throughout his career, Mr. Bernard has prosecuted a broad range of criminal cases, including large-scale drug trafficking, violent crimes, firearms offenses, white-collar crimes, fraud, tax violations, and cases involving the exploitation of children, such as child pornography.
Before becoming an Assistant United States Attorney, Mr. Bernard worked as a Special Agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the Wheeling, West Virginia Resident Agency. Prior to his time with the FBI, he was a litigator at the law firm Coolidge, Wall, Womsley & Lombard in Dayton, Ohio.
Mr. Bernard is a magna cum laude graduate of Ohio Northern University College of Law (1987) and holds a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, earned in 1984.
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