Melinda Warner

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Melinda Warner
Title Medical Examiner
Affiliation NYPD; formerly USAF
Division Special Victims Unit
Precinct 16th Precinct
Occupation Doctor
First Appearance SVU: "Noncompliance"
Played by Tamara Tunie

Dr. Melinda Warner is a Medical Examiner in the New York City Police Department. After working as a doctor in the United States Air Force to pay for medical school and serving two tours during the Gulf War, Warner left the army to take care of her daughter, and became an AME for the NYPD. ("Blast") In 2000, having reached the rank of ME, she was assigned to the 16th Precinct, as Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers had begun to work for Major Case in addition to Homicide, and these two units took up much of her time. ("Noncompliance")

Over the years, Warner has become an integral part of the Manhattan Special Victims Unit, and her personal skills have contributed to the unit's high success rate in closing cases.

[edit] Trivia

• During her time in the Air Force, Warner received training in the use of firearms. ("Blast")
• According to Det. Elliot Stabler, Warner hates cold weather and always sends her assistants to crime scenes on cold days. ("Mean")
• Warner is the only ME in the whole of the Law & Order franchise to appear in the opening credits of her series.
• Warner's daughter was born sometime between 1989 and 1991.
• In Blast Warner personally got involved in a case when informing parents that their kidnapped daughter had leukemia and she saved the perps life by shooting him in the leg, preventing him from commiting suicide by cop.