Eugenia L. Mobley

Mobley was born in Alabama, the daughter of Eugene Mobley and Gussie Dean Mobley.[1][2][3] She earned her bachelor's degree at Tennessee State University in 1943, then earned her dentistry degree at Meharry Medical College in Nashville.[4] She further earned a master's degree in public health at the University of Michigan in 1948.[5] She was a member of Delta Sigma Theta.[6]

Mobley was a dentist and professor of dentistry. From 1948 to 1950, she was director of public health dentistry for the Jefferson County Health Department in Alabama.[7] She had a dental practice in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1950s, while her husband was practicing as a physician at the Veterans Hospital in Tuskegee.[8][9] In 1978, she became dean of the dental school at Meharry Medical College.[10] She was the second woman to head an American dental school, after Jeanne Sinkford at Howard University in 1975.[11][12][13] She later became the medical school's vice president.[11] She oversaw Meharry's outreach for oral cancer prevention.[7] She was a charter member of the Nashville chapter of The Links.[14]

Mobley's research in public health dentistry[15][16] was published in academic journals, including Journal of the American Dental Association[17][18] and Journal of Public Health Dentistry.[19][20]

• "Dental caries and periodontal conditions among Negro children in Tennessee" (1960, with Martha B. Pointer)[21]
• "Some social and economic factors relating to periodontal disease among young Negroes" (1963, with Stanley H. Smith)[17]
• "Testing the oral hygiene index; its use in epidemiological studies" (1964)[20]
• "Is dental health education the answer?" (1967, with Barbara H. Robinson and Martha B. Pointer)[18]
• "Dental program for the chronically ill and aged" (1967)[22]
• "Dental status and needs in a poverty‐population of North Nashville, Tennessee" (1969, with Martha B. Pointer)[19]
• Dental Hygiene Examination Review: 1060 multiple choice questions and referenced explanatory answers (1969, with Theodore Edward Bolden and Elzer S. Chandler)[23]

Eugenia L. Mobley married physician Charles William McGinnis in 1950.[3][24][25] He died in 2002.[26] Their son William Eugene McGinnis died in 2003.[27][28] She died in 2011, aged 89 years, in Nashville.[6] The Mobley/Singleton Lecture program at Meharry is named in honor of Eugenia Mobley and her colleague J. B. Singleton.[29]