 deedee corradini (born 1944) is an american businesswoman and politician. she served as the 32nd mayor of salt lake city, utah from 1992 to 2000. she was the first (and currently only) female mayor of salt lake city. corradini, now senior vice president for prudential utah real estate, is also the president of women's ski jumping-usa. she has been 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. corradini attended school in lebanon and syria for 11 years as a child. she received a bachelor of arts from drew university in 1965, and a masters degree in psychology from the university of utah. she served as press secretary to congressman wayne owens of utah and then rep. richard ottinger of new york in the early 1970s. although utah leans strongly toward the republican party, corradini is a member of the democratic party. this is not unusual for salt lake city, which tends to elect democrats more frequently than other regions of utah. corradini's efforts gave utah the initial shove that landed the state the 2002 winter olympics. corradini was the first woman to receive the olympic flag when it was passed to salt lake city at the 1998 winter olympics in nagano, japan. under 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. but she also endured scrutiny for soliciting some $231,000 in cash gifts and loans to pay off $805,000 for her part in the failure of bonneville pacific, a publicly traded alternative energy corporation that went bankrupt on inflated financials in 1991. though she never faced criminal charges, investigations dogged corradini's administration, which never recovered from the winter olympics bribery scandal. in january 1999, she announced she would not seek reelection the following year amid calls for her resignation by the salt lake city council. the aclu and the first unitarian church of salt lake city, among others (including her successor [[rocky ande
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