(1971-02-08) February 8, 1971 (age 53) Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
Political party
Democratic
Domestic partner
Joanna Lydgate
Education
Harvard University (BA) Northeastern University (JD)
Website
Official website
Maura Tracy Healey (born February 8, 1971) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 73rd governor of Massachusetts since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she served as Massachusetts Attorney General from 2015 to 2023 and was elected governor in 2022, defeating the Republican nominee, former state representative Geoff Diehl.
Hired by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley in 2007, Healey served as chief of the Civil Rights Division, where she led the state's challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act. She was then appointed chief of the Public Protection and Advocacy Bureau and then chief of the Business and Labor Bureau before resigning in 2013 to run for attorney general in 2014. She defeated former State Senator Warren Tolman in the Democratic primary and then defeated Republican attorney John Miller in the general election. Healey was reelected in 2018.[1] She was elected governor of Massachusetts in 2022.[2]
In 2014, Healey became the first openly lesbian woman elected attorney general of a U.S. state and the first openly LGBT person elected to statewide office in Massachusetts.[3] In 2022, she became one of the first two openly lesbian women (alongside Tina Kotek) and the co-third openly LGBT person (alongside Tina Kotek and after Kate Brown and Jared Polis) elected governor of a U.S. state as well as the first woman elected governor of Massachusetts.[4][5]
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^"It's Official: Maura Healey Announces Run for Massachusetts Governor". NECN.com. January 20, 2022. Archived from the original on August 12, 2023. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
^Johnson, Akilah (November 12, 2014). "Maura Healey setting her course as attorney general". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on August 15, 2019. Retrieved June 21, 2019.
^Epstein, Reid J. (November 11, 2022). "Tina Kotek, a Progressive, Will Be Oregon's Next Governor". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on November 11, 2022. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
^Glueck, Katie; Astor, Maggie (September 6, 2022). "Live Updates: Maura Healey Could Make History in Run for Massachusetts Governor". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on September 29, 2022. Retrieved September 7, 2022.
Maura Tracy Healey (born February 8, 1971) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 73rd governor of Massachusetts since 2023. A member of the...
state representative Geoff Diehl, Democratic state attorney general MauraHealey, and Libertarian Kevin Reed sought to succeed incumbent governor Charlie...
assistant city manager of Austin, Texas. She was appointed by governor MauraHealey to serve as secretary of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation...
several preceding months. During the governorships of Charlie Baker and MauraHealey, Kraft was co-chair of the governor's task force on hate crimes. Kraft...
woman elected attorney general of a state in the United States (after MauraHealey and Dana Nessel), and the second openly LGBT person elected to statewide...
the position on November 28, 2016 by Massachusetts Attorney GEneral MauraHealey. Prior to serving as the state solicitor, Dewar had served as the assistant...
office from 1975 to 1979 and from 1983 to 1991. The current governor is MauraHealey, a Democrat who won the 2022 gubernatorial election. Any person seeking...
lawsuit, which was filed in June by the Massachusetts attorney general, MauraHealey, and claims that Purdue Pharma and members of the Sackler family knew...
election. Campbell's announcement came after incumbent attorney general MauraHealey announced that she would not seek reelection and run for governor of...
point Marcel Hug crossing the finishing line Massachusetts Governor MauraHealey congratulating Hug on his victory Eden Rainbow-Cooper, women's wheelchair...
Attorney General MauraHealey as being "the first name on many Democratic lists". Samantha Lachman of The Huffington Post also identified Healey as a potential...
head of the new Energy and Environment Bureau under Attorney General MauraHealey. Hoffer was a "day one appointee" into President Joe Biden's cabinet...
or territorywide elected offices: Jared Polis (Governor of Colorado), MauraHealey (Governor of Massachusetts and former Attorney General of Massachusetts)...
one of the first lesbian governors in the United States, along with MauraHealey in Massachusetts. Meanwhile, Republican incumbents won reelection in...
activities in excess of $135,000. In Massachusetts, Attorney General MauraHealey testified in March, 2017 before the DPU urging it to deny Eversource's...
held by Democrats: Governor MauraHealey Democrats control all six of the elected statewide offices: Governor: MauraHealey Lieutenant Governor: Kim Driscoll...
losing both elections in landslides to Democrats Elizabeth Warren and MauraHealey respectively. Geoff Diehl was born in Austin, Texas. At the age of 3...
previous October. In May 2016, Baker and Massachusetts Attorney General MauraHealey launched a statewide campaign to promote awareness of protection for...
most other states, are addressed as His/Her Excellency. The governor is MauraHealey and the incumbent lieutenant governor is Kim Driscoll. The governor conducts...
on February 7, 2008.[citation needed] On February 7, 2024, Governor MauraHealey nominated her to serve as an associate justice on the Massachusetts Supreme...
first two openly lesbian women (alongside MauraHealey) and the third openly LGBT person (alongside Healey and after her predecessor Kate Brown and Jared...
Massachusetts attorney general MauraHealey and state senator Sonia Chang-Díaz were running for the Democratic nomination. Diehl and Healey won their respective...
from the original on January 18, 2024. Retrieved March 27, 2024. "Gov. MauraHealey". National Governors Association. Archived from the original on March...
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