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2 candidates are tracked for Medina County Common Pleas Court Judge, General Division on the November 3, 2026 ballot: Ben Fuchs and Matthew K. Razavi. Candidate information follows official Medina County election filings; verify with the official election office linked below.
Term 1/1/2027-12/31/2032, nonpartisan. Both nominees are attorneys; neither is the sitting judge of this seat. This contest is on the November 3, 2026 ballot.
Nonpartisan
Fuchs is a prosecuting attorney who currently serves in the Cold Case Unit of the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office, investigating and prosecuting unsolved homicide and sexual assault cases, per his campaign site. He earned a B.A. in Political Science from Slippery Rock University and graduated summa cum laude from Cleveland State University College of Law in 2018.
Campaign site →Nonpartisan
Razavi has served as a magistrate in the Medina County Common Pleas Court since January 2017, presiding over criminal and civil docket matters for Judge William F. Hutson, per the county's official magistrates page. He earned a bachelor's degree from Miami University in 1993 and a J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1996, and served as an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney in Cuyahoga County and then in Medina County, trying nearly 200 jury trials to verdict. No campaign website or questionnaire response was found as of September 10, 2026; the official roster and election filing is the only verifiable source for Matthew K. Razavi.