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About Leonard Rodda
- Leonard Roy Rodda (17 April 1892 – 27 January 1970) was an Australian politician. Born in Tarranyurk to farmer Frederick Rodda and Elizabeth Mary Curnow, he attended Tarranyurk State School before working on the family farm.
- He served for three years in the Australian Imperial Force during World War I, serving with the Australian Siege Battery in France before returning to farm at Horsham and Tarranyurk.
- He married Violet May Wurfel on 12 October 1920; they would have three children.
- A foundation member of the Country Party in 1920, he owned a sheep stud from 1931 to 1937, when he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council for Western Province.
- He served as a minister without portfolio from January 1942 to July 1943.
- He resigned in 1943 to contest the federal seat of Wannon unsuccessfully, and was re-elected to the Council at the by-election for his old seat.
- He resigned to contest Wannon again in 1946, also unsuccessfully, and retired to Warracknabeal in 1951.
- Rodda remained active in the local community and served on Warracknabeal Shire Council from 1953 to 1967, including two periods as president (1957–58, 1961–63).
- He died in 1970 at Erindale in South Australia.
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