Mia Fey

Mia Fey was a defense attorney in Grossberg Law Offices who eventually created her own criminal defense law firm, Fey & Co. Law Offices. She was Phoenix Wright's boss and mentor; she left her firm to him after her death at the hands of Redd White.

Mia Fey has a younger sister, Maya, who serves as Wright's assistant.

Early life
Fey was born into a prominent family of spiritualists and was destined to become the next Master of Kurain Village. However, after her mother disappeared during the DL-6 Incident, she left the village to become a lawyer and find out what had happened during that incident. She also did not want to fight her sister Maya for the position of Master of Kurain.

Law career
Mia Fey became a defense attorney working under Marvin Grossberg. She eventually learned about Redd White and his leakage of the information of her mother's involvement in the DL-6 Incident to the press.

First case

 * Main article: Turnabout Beginnings

For her first case, Fey took a case in which the suspect was an escaped convict by the name of Terry Fawles, who was charged with the murder of Police Sergeant Valerie Hawthorne. Fey's co-council for the trial was Grossberg's best lawyer at the time, Diego Armando. The prosecutor for the trial, Miles Edgeworth, happened to be new to the court system as well. During the course of the trial, Fey managed to prove that the "eyewitness" Melissa Foster was actually Dahlia Hawthorne and tried to prove that she was the real killer, but Fawles took the stand and committed suicide by drinking a vial of poison. The case left serious scars within Fey's heart, and she did not take another case for one year.

Meanwhile, she and Armando became a couple, and Armando began investigating Dahlia Hawthorne, which would lead to his poisoning at her hands.

Second case

 * Main article: Turnabout Memories

Fey eventually returned to the courtroom, taking the case of a university student named Phoenix Wright, who was charged with the murder of another student, Doug Swallow. She had taken the case because she had suspected the existence of a connection between this case and Armando's poisoning. During the trial, Fey was able to get Wright an acquittal by proving that Dahlia Hawthorne had killed Swallow to cover up the fact that she had poisoned Armando. Her defense also traumatized the prosecutor, Winston Payne, and he has never been the same since that case.

Later years
Over the next three years, Fey had established her own law firm and had hired her former client Phoenix Wright. She had also gathered information on Redd White and the DL-6 Incident.

Fey was Wright's co-council in his first case, in which he represented Larry Butz in the murder of Cindy Stone.

Death

 * Main article: Turnabout Sisters

One month after Wright's first trial, Redd White killed Mia Fey to prevent her from investigating him any further. However, at the subsequent trial, her sister Maya channeled her spirit to help Wright expose White as the killer.

Posthumous mentor

 * Main articles: Turnabout Samurai, Turnabout Goodbyes, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice For All, The Stolen Turnabout, Recipe for Turnabout and Bridge to the Turnabout

After her death, Mia Fey was able to act as Wright's mentor and co-council in his later cases thanks to the channeling abilities of her sister Maya and, later, her cousin Pearl.

Trivia

 * Mia Fey seems to have a problem with names, calling Wright "Wry" ("Naruhodo" becomes "Naruhodou" in the Japanese game) and Larry "Harry" (in the Japanese, Yahari becomes Yappari).


 * Mia Fey keeps an office plant named Charley, which Wright is still taking care of as of Turnabout Succession. According to Dick Gumshoe, it is a cordyline stricta.
 * Her Japanese name, Chihiro, can mean "great depth", or "a thousand fathoms". In her surname, "Sato" may come from the word "village" or "home country", whilst the "Aya" part has no meaning.