Arian Noma

Arian Noma’s path to law was far from traditional. Devoted to serving the community, Arian began his career as a schoolteacher in Southeast, Washington, DC. Despite poverty, racism, indifference, apathy, and insufficient funding amongst other barriers creating challenges to learning, Arian taught all subject matters in both general and special education.

Arian quickly identified the flaws in educational systems that create the school to prison pipeline. Arian believes that the only way to transform the system is through the law. In 2004, Arian obtained a Juris Doctor from The University of the District Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law. During his career, Arian became licensed to practice law in Maryland, Washington, DC and Washington State.

Arian clerked for the Honorable Judge Sheryl M. Long of the DC Superior Court in Washington, DC, and in 2006, Arian joined the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office.  After a tour in the juvenile crimes unit, Arian joined the Carroll County State’s Attorney’s Office to master prosecutions and trials in rural settings.  In roughly five years as an Assistant State’s Attorney, Arian prosecuted a wide variety of felonies and misdemeanors by way of bench and jury trials.

In 2009, Arian founded the NOMA Firm, LLC . The NOMA Firm, PLLC is a high-quality law firm serving clients in both civil and criminal legal matters in Maryland, Washington, DC, and Washington State. in 2017, the firm terminated all operation so Arian could operate a political campaign to become the elected prosecutor of Okanogan County, Washington in order to institute prosecutorial reform. The election was a landslide victory and Arian was sworn into office in 2018.

After vocalizing support of the George Floyd protests, some of the Okanogan community no longer supported Arian, and his family suffered fearful threats of violence. The NOMA Firm, PLLC remains positive and the main goal is to break the chains that oppress all of humanity and lead us all to inequitable outcomes.

While prosecutor, specific law enforcement stakeholders rejected diversion programs that reduced over all crime, over policing and charging low level possession of controlled substance offenses, and driving while suspended in the third degree prosecutions.

Currently, Okanogan County embraces the idea of alternative justice and is building diversion courts. Also, the Washington State Supreme Court ruled felony possession of a controlled substance unconstitutional providing more rights to the individual citizen. Finally, the State no longer permits the prosecutions of driving while suspended in the third degree offenses. All of these things Arian forecasted in 2017 and 2018.

The NOMA Firm, PLLC stands ready to solve client’s issues and troubles in order to balance inequalities. The NOMA Firm, PLLC focuses on representing businesses and people in the areas of corporate and sports law, business development, intellectual property and entertainment law, personal injury, wills, estates, and probate, and criminal reform law and general legal consulting.  

Arian also serves as the Supervising Attorney for the Sandy Williams Justice Clinic at The Carl Maxey Center, a non-profit dedicated to helping the BIPOC community achieve economic independence and equality.