Mary Elizabeth Stephens Zoghby (born July 23, 1933) is an American nonprofit executive and Democratic Party politician in Alabama.
[2][3] Mary Zoghby had a career as an advertising executive and was active in a variety of charities, including the Historic Mobile Preservation Society, Theatre Guild and her Catholic church.
[4] The previous year, Sonnier had allied with embattled Mobile School Board President Dan C. Alexander and introduced legislation requiring educational competency testing, but which did not resolve a long running school desegregation lawsuit, Birdie Mae Davis v. Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County, which had resulted in numerous hearings and orders by U.S. District Judge Daniel Holcombe Thomas (and higher courts) before his retirement in 1971, and would continue under his successor U.S. District Judge William Brevard Hand until 1997.
[6] Voter adoption of the mayor/council form of government helped resolve two decades of litigation involving black voter suppression, which had reached the U.S. Supreme Court in Mobile v. Bolden (1980) before the black plaintiffs found a 1909 "smoking-gun" letter from Congressman Frederick George Bromberg before a scheduled retrial before U.S. District Judge Virgil Pittman.
[11] Also in 2019, Zoghby's Department Store closed, although a school uniform company founded by a niece remained in business.