1. Margaret "Deedee" McMullen Corradini was an American businesswoman and politician who served as the 32nd mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, from 1992 to 2000.
23 Facts About Deedee Corradini
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Deedee Corradini was on the WSJ-USA board, and served as president for three years, taking a lead role in the battle to get women's ski jumping into the Olympic Winter Games.
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Deedee Corradini attended school in Lebanon and Syria for 11 years as a child.
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Deedee Corradini received a Bachelor of Arts in 1965 and a Master's degree in 1967, both in Psychology from the University of Utah.
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Deedee Corradini served as Press Secretary to Congressman Wayne Owens of Utah and then Rep.
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Deedee Corradini's efforts gave Utah the initial shove that landed the state the 2002 Winter Olympics.
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Deedee Corradini was the first woman to receive the Olympic flag, in front of a television audience of hundreds of millions of viewers, when it was passed to Salt Lake City at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan at the closing ceremonies.
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Under Deedee Corradini's watch, the city's population experienced a tremendous growth spurt, as the metropolitan area of Salt Lake City and the rest of the state began to grow by thousands of families a month.
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Deedee Corradini was later criticized for soliciting some $231,000 in cash gifts and loans from friends and acquaintances to help pay the settlement; although insinuations were made, particularly in the alternative press, no serious allegations of impropriety were ever advanced.
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Deedee Corradini served as the President of the US Conference of Mayors in 1998.
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Deedee Corradini was President of the International Women's Forum, Chair of the Utah Symphony Board of Directors, of which she was a Lifetime Board Member.
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Deedee Corradini died from lung cancer on March 1,2015, at the age of 70.
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Deedee Corradini's efforts gave Utah the initial shove that landed the state the 2002 Winter Olympics.
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Deedee Corradini crisscrossed the globe meeting with International Olympic Committee members for Salt Lake City's 2002 bid.
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Deedee Corradini lobbied the Utah Legislature for a voter-approved sales-tax hike to build winter-sports facilities to help lure the Winter Games.
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Deedee Corradini was the first woman to receive the Olympic flag, in front of a television audience of hundreds of millions of viewers, when it was passed to Salt Lake City at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan at the closing ceremonies.
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Deedee Corradini was instrumental in adding women's bobsleigh and skeleton events to the 2002 Olympics in Utah.
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Deedee Corradini campaigned for the 2002 Winter Olympics as mayor and then led the effort to bring women's ski jumping to the Winter Games.
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For nearly a decade, Deedee Corradini had led the fight, which included an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada when athletes fought for the right to compete in the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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Deedee Corradini helped lay the groundwork for a transportation hub that connects TRAX, FrontRunner commuter trains and buses in what used to be the city's red-light district.
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In championing the initial TRAX spur, Deedee Corradini ran into stiff resistance from business owners, who balked at having Main Street torn up for months of construction to accommodate the rails.
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Deedee Corradini pushed to renovate the blighted west side of the city's business district with an ambitious 50-block project that involved moving roads, bridges and freeway corridors.
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Deedee Corradini led the effort to renovate Salt Lake City International Airport and added a third runway.