sentences:  Prior to her employment in that capacity, she served as Counselor to J. Steven Griles, Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior; she also served as Deputy Chief of Staff and Counselor for Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton, serving in that position beginning on January 31, 2001.Prior to her position with the Department of the Interior, Wooldridge worked as a lawyer in private practice in Sacramento, California (from 1987 to 1994, and again from 1999 to 2001), served as general counsel to the non-partisan California Fair Political Practices Commission (2000), and served as a special assistant attorney general in the California Department of Justice).In February 2007, it was reported that in March 2006 Wooldridge had purchased a $980,000 vacation homephoto on Kiawah Island, South Carolina, together with two other individuals