Marcella F. Fierro, M.D., Chief Medical Examiner

Dr. Marcella Fierro is Chief Medical Examiner for the Commonwealth of Virginia and Professor and Chair of the Department of Legal Medicine at VCU. She has served in this position since 1994. Dr. Fierro oversees the medical examiner investigation of all violent, suspicious and unnatural deaths in the Commonwealth of Virginia. She also teaches forensic pathology to medical schools, law enforcement agencies, commonwealth's attorneys and other interested groups. She completed her undergraduate work at D'Youville College, a small women's college in Buffalo, New York, and earned her degree in medicine from the State University at Buffalo. She completed residency training in pathology at the Cleveland Clinic and the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University.

Dr. Fierro has been active in professional organizations as a member of the forensic pathology councils of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists and Chair of the Forensic Pathology Commitee of the College of American Pathologists. She is past President of the National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME) and served on the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of NAME. Dr. Fierro is a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. Dr. Fierro serves as a consultant to the FBI on the National Crime Information Center. Her work has garnered her national and international acclaim. Dr. Fierro was a co-founder of the Virginia Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine in 1999.