We have a winner, ladies and gentlemen. But, first a big "thank you" to all who applied and guest blogged to be a FishbowlDC contributing editor.

Aoife McCarthy will be our new contributing editor. She (yes, she--the Fishbowl was getting lonely with just boys) recently left the National Journal after two years to join business consulting firm Financial Dynamics as an assistant vice president.

She begins swimming around the Fishbowl today.