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In August 2007, then-Congresswoman Deborah Pryce shocked the Republican Party with the announcement that she decided not to seek re-election in what was shaping up to be a rematch against her 2006 Democratic opponent/now Congresswoman Mary Jo Kilroy.  At the time, Pryce cited the "needs of her family" in the Columbus area as the primary reason for her decision to retire.

Today in the Columbus Dispatch:

Former GOP Rep. Deborah Pryce of Upper Arlington has joined the Washington office of the law firm Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice in its government affairs practice.

Pryce, 57, is not a registered lobbyist for the firm, and in any case the just-retired lawmaker is still under a one-year ban on lobbying Congress.