Rodney Newell "Rod" Searle, Sr. (born July 17, 1920, in Camden, New Jersey) is a Minnesota Republican politician and a former Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives. Searle served in the Minnesota House for 24 years. Searle was first elected to represent Waseca, Minnesota in 1956. He was a part of the Conservative caucus during the period in which Minnesota's legislature was nonpartisan, becoming officially a Republican representative in 1973. He rose to chair the Higher Education committee, and eventually was named Assistant Minority Leader by his caucus in 1975.