Search for new medical examiner proves difficult

From day one of Mayor Adrian Fenty’s administration, D.C. Chief Medical Examiner Marie Pierre-Louis has known her days on the job were numbered.

Within six months, according to the mayor’s 100 Days and Beyond action plan, Fenty would hire a board-certified pathologist as chief medical examiner, the person responsible for investigating and certifying deaths that occur as a result of violence or other suspicious causes.