After leaving almost exactly one year ago, recruiter Martha Fay “Marty” Africa has returned to the legal search firm that bears her name.

Africa, who will regain her managing director title, returned to Major, Lindsey & Africa on May 8, though the firm only announced it in a press release Wednesday. Africa, who had spent the past year with Hodge Niederer Cariani Lindsay, a small executive search firm in San Francisco, said she returned after Roland Dumas, a good friend and colleague at Major Lindsey, asked her to come back.