Margaret "Deedee" McMullen Corradini (April 11, 1944 – March 1, 2015) was an American businesswoman and politician who served as the 32nd mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, from 1992 to 2000.
She 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.
Corradini was born Margaret Louise McMullen[2] (although Deedee was a childhood nickname)[2] in Providence, Rhode Island, the daughter of Marie-Louise (Strehlau) and the Rev.
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.
She also was the guiding force for the construction of the popular baseball stadium for the (then) AAA Salt Lake Buzz, at the time, the farm team for the Minnesota Twins), the redevelopment of a 50-year-old rail yard into the 30-acre (121,000 m2), $375 million The Gateway mixed-use development, resulting in two million square feet (186,000 m2) of shops, restaurants, office space, and housing, a 12-screen movie theatre, the Clark Planetarium, and Discovery Gateway, a children's museum.
[12] In 2011, based on improvements in performance and participation, the IOC gave its approval to add women's ski jumping, starting with the upcoming 2014 Winter Olympics.
[12][14] For nearly a decade, 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.The IOC twice ruled against adding the sport to the Vancouver Games, saying participation worldwide wasn't widespread enough.
"[14] During her tenure, Corradini pushed hard (and ultimately successfully) for the relocation of the Union Pacific railroad tracks that divided downtown, pushed through the TRAX light-rail system, and won massive federal funding for reconstruction of the freeway system in advance of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games (one of the largest single public works transit projects in recent American history).
[5] In championing the initial TRAX spur, Corradini ran into stiff resistance from business owners, who balked at having Main Street torn up for months of construction to accommodate the rails.
[5] 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.