| Ron Corbett | |
| Office: | Mayor of Cedar Rapids |
| Term Start: | January 2010 |
| Term End: | January 2018 |
| Predecessor: | Kay Halloran |
| Successor: | Brad Hart |
| Office2: | Speaker of the Iowa House of Representatives |
| Term Start2: | 1995 |
| Term End2: | 2000 |
| Predecessor2: | Harold Van Maanen |
| Successor2: | Brent Siegrist |
| Birth Date: | 12 October 1960 |
| Birth Place: | Erie, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Party: | Republican |
| Children: | 5 |
Ron Corbett (born October 12, 1960) is an American politician and former mayor of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.[1]
Corbett was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1960. In 1974, his family moved to Iowa and he later graduated from Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, in 1983.[2]
After graduation, Corbett worked for The Equitable Life Insurance Company as an agent for ten years. In 1986 he was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives, where he served 7 terms. He was Speaker of the House from 1995 to 1999.[3] He then resigned his House seat to become president of the Cedar Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce.[1] [2] He left that position for Cedar Rapids-based international trucking firm CRST, working directly under executive director John Smith.
He was elected mayor of Cedar Rapids in 2009 with 62% of the vote.[4] [5] He was reelected to another four-year term in 2013. In December 2016, he announced that he would not seek reelection for mayor of Cedar Rapids but would instead consider a run for the Republican nomination for governor of Iowa in 2018.[6]
In 2015, he resigned from CRST and launched Engage Iowa, a conservative think tank of which he serves as president.[7] Its first policy initiative, on water quality and state tax reform, was introduced in November 2015.[8]
| Ron Corbett | 62.3% | 14,642 | |
| Brian Fagan | 35.7% | 8,385 | |
| P.T Larson | 1.8% | 421 |