<Table> <Tr> <Th> Name </Th> <Th> Portrayed by </Th> <Th> Rank </Th> <Th> Year </Th> <Th> Episodes </Th> <Th> Notes </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Donald "Don" Cragen </Td> <Td> Dann Florek </Td> <Td> Captain </Td> <Td> 1990--1993 </Td> <Td> 66 </Td> <Td> * Transferred to the Anti-Corruption Task Force and later to the Manhattan Special Victims Unit . * Left the NYPD in 2014, taking a six - month vacation that brought him up to the mandatory retirement age . * Returned briefly in 2015 to help the SVU re-examine a decades - old rape case . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Anita Van Buren </Td> <Td> S. Epatha Merkerson </Td> <Td> Lieutenant </Td> <Td> 1993--2010 </Td> <Td> 390 </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> Name </Th> <Th> Portrayed by </Th> <Th> Rank </Th> <Th> Year </Th> <Th> Episodes </Th> <Th> Notes </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Donald "Don" Cragen </Td> <Td> Dann Florek </Td> <Td> Captain </Td> <Td> 1990--1993 </Td> <Td> 66 </Td> <Td> * Transferred to the Anti-Corruption Task Force and later to the Manhattan Special Victims Unit . * Left the NYPD in 2014, taking a six - month vacation that brought him up to the mandatory retirement age . * Returned briefly in 2015 to help the SVU re-examine a decades - old rape case . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Anita Van Buren </Td> <Td> S. Epatha Merkerson </Td> <Td> Lieutenant </Td> <Td> 1993--2010 </Td> <Td> 390 </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr>

Actresses who played judges on law and order