Perry County Prosecutor's Office

As your prosecutor, I am charged with the responsibility of representing the State of Indiana in all felony and misdemeanor criminal prosecutions resulting from crimes committed in Perry County. In addition, the Perry County Prosecutor’s office prosecutes all traffic and other infraction violations, enforces child support orders entered in divorce and paternity cases, conducts juvenile adjudications and prosecutions, and provides information and assistance to victims of crime.

My vision for the Perry County Prosecutor’s Office is to be tough on crime, but fair in its administration. As your Perry County Prosecutor, I assure you that my office will prosecute those charged with serious felonies to the fullest extent permitted under the law.

Biography:

Rod Acchiardo is a 1984 graduate of Vanderbilt University with a Bachelor of Science degree. He attended University of Memphis School of Law and graduated with honors in 1988. While there, he was a member of the Law Review which produces a quarterly legal journal primarily for consumption by the legal community.

Rod has been an attorney for 22 years. He began his law career as an associate with a 200-man law firm in Baltimore and then continued in private practice for 10 years before moving to southern Indiana in 2001.

For the last 9 years he has had his law office in Tell City, Indiana. His experience in his law practice has included a broad range of areas, from criminal defense work, family law, personal injury, worker's compensation, bankruptcy to corporate law. He has represented criminal defendants in state and federal courts and represented the people of Perry County in criminal law as defense counsel as well as bankruptcy matters and civil litigation at the trial level as well as before the courts of appeal of Indiana for the past 9 years.

Rod has been admitted to practice law in the states of Indiana, Tennessee and Maryland and has represented clients before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, U.S. District Court for Western District of Kentucky, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the Indiana Supreme Court among other courts.

He is a member of the Perry County Bar Association, Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys Council, Perry County Jail Committee, Indiana Animal Welfare and Control Committee, Perry County Substance Abuse Committee and the Perry County Domestic Violence Committee.

Rod has been married to Lisa Ramsey Acchiardo for 22 years and they have 3 children, Joseph, Paul and Laura. Rod currently resides in Tell City.