Rosemary Corbin is a longstanding Democratic public figure and former mayor of Richmond, California.
In 1999 she had to fight the Chevron Richmond Refinery from lowering its property tax contributions and argue against the company insisting the city survive on a leaner budget.
[5] Corbin is still involved in local politics and campaigned against Indian casinos and in support of the failed Measure T. Corbin studied at San Francisco State University for her BA and at University of California, Berkeley for her Master of library science degree.
She was also involved with the largely successful Main Street Project, which has resulted in remodeling MacDonald Avenue, the creation of the Richmond Transit Village and Richmond Shopping Center, and the resurrection of the MacDonald 80 Shopping Center.
She is the Chair of the City of Richmond's Historical Preservation Commission, and she is the president of the board of Ujima, a substance abuse treatment program for women and their children.