1. Deborah Denine Pryce was born on July 29,1951 and is an American lawyer, jurist, and politician from Ohio who was the member of the United States House of Representatives for Ohio's 15th congressional district, which includes the western half of Columbus and the surrounding suburbs, from 1993 to 2009.
Deborah Pryce was a judge in the Franklin County Municipal Court from 1985 to 1992, ending as presiding judge.
Deborah Pryce was first elected to the US House in November 1992.
Deborah Pryce was a member of the House Committee on Financial Services and was ranking minority member of the Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government-Sponsored Enterprises Subcommittee.
Deborah Pryce returned to the committee after spending ten years on the House Rules Committee.
Deborah Pryce is a fiscally and socially conservative Republican, although she was a member of multiple center right groups such as the Republican Main Street Partnership, Republicans For Environmental Protection, the Republican Majority For Choice, Republicans for Choice and The Wish List.
In November 2006, when asked about the war in Iraq, Deborah Pryce ended an interview with CNN by walking away.
Deborah Pryce voted to make the United States Environmental Protection Agency a cabinet department, to expedite forest thinning projects, and to de-authorize "critical habitat" designated by the Endangered Species Act.
Deborah Pryce received a number of endorsements for the 15th District race in 2006, including: the Business and Professional Women, the Franklin County Republican Party, Union County Republican Party Executive Committee, National Federation of Independent Business, the US Chamber of Commerce and the Fraternal Order of Police.
Complete tallies found Deborah Pryce winning rural Madison and Union counties but losing her portion of Franklin County by several thousand votes.
Deborah Pryce ended Election Night 1,055 votes ahead of Kilroy, but the difference was within a half-percentage point, which triggered an automatic recount under Ohio law.
In 2013, Pryce was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage during the Hollingsworth v Perry case.