Maryann Mahaffey
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Maryann Mahaffey (January 18, 1925 – July 27, 2006) was a member of the Detroit City Council.
She was born in Burlington, Iowa. She was first elected to the Council in 1973. 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 died a few months later on July 27, 2006 from leukaemia, aged 81.
She was a Professor Emerita at the School of Social Work at Wayne State University in Detroit, where she taught from 1965 to 1990. She had an undergraduate degree from Cornell College in Iowa and an MSW from the University of Southern California.
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