Roby, Martha, 1976-

<p>Martha Kehres Roby (/ˈroʊbɪ/ ROH-bee; née Dubina, July 26, 1976) is an American attorney and politician who served as the U.S. Representative for Alabama's 2nd congressional district from 2011 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, she defeated the incumbent Democratic U.S. Representative Bobby Bright in 2010. That year, Roby and Terri Sewell became the first women elected to Congress from Alabama in regular elections. On July 26, 2019, Roby announced she would retire from Congress at the end of her fifth term, which ended in 2021.</p>

<p>Martha Dubina was born in Montgomery, Alabama. She is the daughter of Joel Fredrick Dubina and his wife; her father became a Senior Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.</p>

<p>She attended New York University, where she received a Bachelor of Music degree. She entered the Samford University Cumberland School of Law at Birmingham, Alabama, receiving her J.D. in 2001.</p>

<p>Before entering politics, she worked at the law firm of Copeland, Franco.</p>

ROBY, Martha, a Representative from Alabama; born in Montgomery, Montgomery County, Ala., July 27, 1976; B.M., New York University, New York, N. Y., 1998; J.D., Samford University, Birmingham, Ala., 2001; lawyer, private practice; member of the Montgomery, Ala., city council, 2003-2010; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Twelfth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 2011-January 3, 2021); was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Seventeenth Congress in 2020.