The Ulster Unionist Party member, Dermot Nesbitt, has decided he will not seek re-election to the Northern Ireland Assembly.
He was of one his party's key team members during the Good Friday Agreement negotiations and actively supported David Trimble and his successor, the current UUP leader, Sir Reg Empey.
Mr Nesbitt, who lectured on Finance at Queen's University in Belfast before he became a full-time politician, is resigning because he wants to do other things.
One of the most challenging incidents in his life occurred in 1983, when his Ulster Unionist colleague, law lecturer Edgar Graham, was killed by the IRA as Mr Nesbitt chatted to him.
Mr Nesbitt and his wife, Oriel, have two grown-up children, Andrew and Elaine.
