Governor Maura Healey

In 2022, Maura Healey became the first woman and the first openly gay candidate to be elected to the office of Massachusetts Governor. Beyond claiming these “firsts,” though, Maura Healey has led an impressive career in law and public service. 

Healey graduated cum laude from Harvard College in 1992 and in 1998 earned a law degree from Northeastern University School of Law. Early on in her career, Healey worked as a clerk for Judge A. David Mazzone and then served as a special assistant district attorney in Middlesex County. In 2007 she began to work for then-Attorney General Martha Coakley as Chief of the Civil Rights Division. During her time in this position Healey led and won the state’s lawsuit challenging the federal Defense of Marriage Act—an act which declared that no state would be required to recognize a same-sex marriage that had been performed in another state. After climbing the ranks in the Attorney General’s Office, Healey eventually announced her campaign for the position in 2013 and entered office as Massachusetts Attorney General in 2014. In 2018 she was re-elected to the position, beginning her second term. Among many notable actions during her time as Attorney General was Healey’s decision to sue the Trump administration over policies that forcibly separated families at the border between Mexico and the U.S.A. 

In 2022 Healey announced her campaign for the office of Governor of Massachusetts. During her first 100 days in office, she and Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll took a number of actions to address some of Massachusetts’ most pressing issues—housing, environmental changes, and education. More recently, on the two-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision which overturned Roe v. Wade and prompted nation-wide protests, Healey signed an Executive Order that protects the right to emergency abortion access in Massachusetts. 

Beyond her career in law and politics, Maura Healey is an avid basketball fan and player. At Harvard, Healey was captain of the women’s basketball team. After graduating, she played professionally in Austria for two years before returning to Massachusetts to attend Northeastern University School of Law.