Nina Antony
Nina-Alice Antony is the Chief Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney for the City of Charlottesville, where she has served her community since 2011. Coming from a background as a Victim’s Advocate, her focus is the prosecution of homicides, significant crimes of violence, and crimes against children, sexual abuse and assault, and intimate partner violence. Through these cases, Nina has developed a passion for understanding how trauma affect victims and how first-line responders, prosecutors and advocates are affected by the vicarious trauma to which they are daily exposed. Nina serves as a lecturer for the Commonwealth’s Attorneys’ Services Council, the Virginia state agency providing statewide training opportunities for prosecutors and law enforcement officers and is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Virginia Law School.
Nina was a 2020 recipient of a “Shield Award” from the Anti-Defamation League and was recognized in 2019 as an “Up and Coming Lawyer” by Virginia Lawyer’s Weekly. She is also a 2022 graduate of “Prosecution Leaders for Now” an executive education and leadership program at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Professional Experience
Chief Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney, City of Charlottesville (2023 – present)
Adjunct Professor, University of Virginia School of Law (2022 – present)
Senior Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney, City of Charlottesville (2017 – 2023)
Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney, City of Charlottesville (2011-2017)
Education
Admitted to Virginia State Bar, 2011
J.D., The Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of Virginia, 2011
B.A., The University of Virginia, 2007