Ron Corbett ’83

Ron Corbett ’83 never met an election for public office he didn’t like. Or win. For the eighth time in eight tries, Corbett won an election to serve in public office in Iowa. The newly-minted mayor of Cedar Rapids formerly served in the Iowa House, where he was speaker of the house for five years. A vice president at CRST, a Cedar Rapids trucking company owned by fellow Cornellian John Smith ’71, Corbett was also previously the president/CEO of the Cedar Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce. He ran on a platform of revitalizing the role of the city council, and won with more than 62 percent of the vote. Corbett lives in Cedar Rapids with his wife, Bénédicte, and their five children.