Leslie A. Woolley will resign next week as special  adviser to the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to become   the chief lobbyist for the Investment Company Institute.   
As vice president of legislative affairs for the trade group, she and  her eight-member team will represent the nation's nearly 7,000 mutual funds   on Capitol Hill.   
  
Ms. Woolley said she took the job because retirement and tax issues  associated with mutual funds will be hot political concerns in coming   years. "So many of the baby boomers have money in mutual funds that   everyone cares about what happens to the mutual fund industry," she said.     
Ms. Woolley was the FDIC's lobbying and policy boss under former FDIC  Chairman Ricki Helfer, but acting Chairman Andrew C. Hove Jr. tried to oust   her immediately after taking the agency's reins in June. She was stripped   of her principal duties after the four-member board deadlocked on firing   her.       
  
Ms. Woolley was a candidate for FDIC chairman, but the White House is  expected to nominate Hawaiian banking lawyer Donna A. Tanoue imminently.