Governor Maura Healey

From the moment Governor Maura Healy walked up the front steps of the Massachusetts State House for the first time she has made history. She is the first openly gay governor of Massachusetts as well as the first female elected governor. Her history making didn’t stop there. On the very first day of her administration Governor Healy signed an Executive Order establishing the role of Climate Chief, a person who would head the brand new Office of Climate Innovation and Resilience. In a time when climate change is dooming our world, the Governor stepped up taking action to protect the environment. Another difficult issue she tackled immediately as Governor was our criminal justice system. While past governors in the last three decades have waited to pardon individuals until the end of their service, Governor Healy didn’t hesitate to right the wrongs of our justice system. 

These actions are no surprise to anyone who has followed Governor Healy’s journey to the Statehouse. Before she was Governor Maura Healy was the captain of her basketball team at Harvard College, showing her leadership skills early on. She would go on to study law at Northeastern which would lead her to become a Civil Rights attorney. In her work as a civil rights attorney, especially as the chief of the MA Attorney General’s Civil Rights Division, she made strides to protect the right to abortion, the rights of LGBTQ+ people and the right to privacy for all. In 2015 Maura Healy  was sworn in as the first openly gay attorney general in the United States. As AG she continued the fight for equal pay, protected reproductive rights, and implemented paid parental leave policy. She has clearly continued her fight for civil rights as governor not even a year into her governorship. The people of Massachusetts should expect great things for the rest of her term.