[2] On July 9, 2010, the Board of Supervisors approved the appointment of Mark A. Fajardo, the Chief Forensic Pathologist at Riverside County, as the new Medical Examiner-Coroner, at an annual salary of $275,000.

[3] He formally replaced Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, who served 2 years as the Coroner, in August 2013.

... and toxicology tests were taking six months to complete" due to inadequate staffing.

Dr. Ukpo is the first African American to serve as Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner since the office was established in 1850.

[6][7] On March 7, 2023, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors appointed Ukpo as Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner.