Common Pleas Court 3A

Magistrates

Magistrate Matthew K. Razavi

Magistrate Razavi received a bachelor’s degree from Miami University in 1993 and a Juris Doctor from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1996.  He spent the next three and a half years as an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney at the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office.  After a brief period in private practice, he returned to prosecuting in 2002 with the Medina County Prosecutor’s Office, where he served as an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney through 2016.  As a prosecutor, he handled thousands of felony matters including serious drug offenses, sex crimes, and homicides, including death penalty matters.  As a prosecutor, he tried nearly 200 jury trials to verdict.  In January of 2017, Matt was appointed as Magistrate in the Medina County Common Pleas Court, where he continues to serve as a Magistrate for Judge William F. Hutson.

Magistrate Keith L. Brenstuhl

Magistrate Brenstuhl was born and raised in Medina County and is a graduate of Highland High School. He received his bachelor’s degree from Bowling Green State University in 2006 and his Juris Doctor from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 2010. While attending law school, he began his employment with the Medina County Court of Common Pleas in 2008. He was appointed as Magistrate in November 2014.

He presides over a broad range of matters on the Court’s criminal and civil dockets. Since January 2018, he has served as Chair of the Medina County Bar Association’s Character and Fitness Review Committee. In that capacity, he is responsible for interviewing all bar applicants in Medina County and making formal recommendations to the Supreme Court of Ohio regarding their admission to the practice of law.