Maryann Mahaffey

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Maryann Mahaffey

Maryann Mahaffey (born January 18, 1925 in Burlington, Iowa) was a member of the Detroit City Council, first elected in 1974. She served as Council President Pro Tempore from 1978 to 1982, and again from 1998 until 2001. She was President of the City Council from 1990 until 1998 and 2002 until 2005, when she announced her retirement from the Council, effective, January, 2006.

She is a Professor Emeritus at the School of Social Work at Wayne State University in Detroit, where she taught from 1965 to 1990. She has an undergraduate degree from Cornell College in Iowa and an MSW from the University of Southern California.

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