Quinn Perkins, born Lindsay Dwyer, is a member of the crisis management team at Olivia Pope's consulting firm, Olivia Pope & Associates.

As Lindsay Dwyer she lived in San Jose, California and graduated from Stanford Law School. She passed the California State Bar the day before the presidential election. Her boyfriend Jesse Tyler worked for Cytron and helped rig the presidential election. He was murdered, along with 6 other co-workers in an explosion. Lindsay/Quinn was framed for the murder and before she was turned over to the police, Huck kidnapped her as a favor for Olivia, drugged her and brought her to DC. Quinn woke up with a new identity and ran with it.

She joined a law firm in D.C. called O'Malley & Lee under her assumed identity. She was then hired by Olivia Pope & Associates, not knowing that Olivia and Huck were responsible for her new identity.