Jodi Rell

Mary Carolyn "Jodi" Rell (born Mary Carolyn Reavis; June 16, 1946 – November 20, 2024) was an American Republican politician.  She was the eighty-seventh Governor of Connecticut. Rell was Governor from 2004 to 2011. Before that, she was Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut under John G. Rowland. Rowland resigned during a corruption investigation. Rell was the second female Governor of Connecticut, after Ella Grasso. She was replaced in 2010 by Dannel Malloy.

Rell died on November 20, 2024 at a hospital in Florida after a short-illness, aged 78.

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Category:Governors of Connecticut
Category:Lieutenant Governors of Connecticut
Category:Republican Party (United States) politicians
Category:Politicians from Virginia
Category:People from Norfolk, Virginia
Category:1946 births
Category:2024 deaths
Category:Members of the Connecticut General Assembly