12 things about Deborah Pryce
1. In the district, she lives within 5 miles of her parents and four siblings.
2. In high school, her extracurricular activities included Girl Scouting, cheerleading, and singing in a choir.
3. She graduated from Ohio State University in 1973 and with honors from Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio, in 1976.
4. She was an elected judge for six years in Columbus.
5. From 1978 until 1985, she served as a prosecutor in Columbus.
6. Elected to the House in 1992, she is a seven-term representative.
7. She has climbed the Republican ranks in the House to become chair of the House Republican Conference, making her the fourth-highest-ranking GOP member of Congress and the highest-ranking Republican woman ever to serve in the House of Representatives.
8. Early in her career, Pryce left one of President Clinton's State of the Union addresses before it was over to keep an appointment with a reporter; a Columbus talk-radio show lambasted her for days.
9. She attributes her shyness to her mother and prefers to play a behind-the-scenes role in politics.
10. She lost her 9-year-old daughter, Caroline, to cancer in 1999.
11. Pryce was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in 2001.
12. She adopted an African-American newborn in 2002, not long after divorcing her husband of 21 years.
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