She was dean of the dental school and vice-president at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee.

[4] She further earned a master's degree in public health at the University of Michigan in 1948.

[10] She was the second woman to head an American dental school, after Jeanne Sinkford at Howard University in 1975.

[19][20] Eugenia L. Mobley married physician Charles William McGinnis in 1950.

[6] The Mobley/Singleton Lecture program at Meharry is named in honor of Eugenia Mobley and her colleague J.