Jim Roddey
| Jim Roddey | |
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| Allegheny County Chief Executive | |
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In office January 3, 2000 – January 2, 2004 |
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| Preceded by | Office Created |
| Succeeded by | Dan Onorato |
| Chairperson of the Allegheny County Republican Party |
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Assumed office December 14, 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Bob Glancy |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1935 Asheville, North Carolina |
| Political party | Republican |
| Residence | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Alma mater | Texas Christian University |
James C. Roddey (born 1935) is a Pennsylvania businessman and politician best known as the former (and first) Chief Executive of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, from 2000 to 2004. He is a Republican and currently serves as the chair of the Republican Committee of Allegheny County.
Roddey is originally from Asheville, North Carolina. He graduated from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas with a degree in Speech. He is a former United States Marine Corps captain, and moved to Pittsburgh in 1979.
Roddey served on the boards of Turner Communication Corp, Rollins Communication Corp, and others. He is the Emeritus Trustee of the University of Pittsburgh and has received three honorary doctorates from various institutions. He was appointed the Port Authority of Allegheny County, of which he became Chairman, the Pittsburgh Water Authority, and the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority, of which he also because Chairman. In 2010, Politics Magazine named him one of the most influential Republicans in Pennsylvania.
Roddey once was the head of the company Wexford Health Sources.
Prior to 2000, Allegheny County was governed by a group of three commissioners. In 1998, Roddey was appointed by the commissioners to manage a successful campaign (also initiated by the county commissioners) to replace that system (via a referendum) to a new system composed of a single Chief Executive and a 15-member County Council.
Roddey argued along with the commissioners that this would more evenly distribute representation as the previous system tended to have commissioners predominantly from Pittsburgh, rather than other towns and communities in the county. (Pittsburgh is the county seat and by far the largest population center in the county, but still with only 26% of the county population in the city-proper.)
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