Maura Healey
Maura Healey | |
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Official portrait, 2023 | |
| 73rd Governor of Massachusetts | |
| Assumed office January 5, 2023 | |
| Lieutenant | Kim Driscoll |
| Preceded by | Charlie Baker |
| 44th Attorney General of Massachusetts | |
| In office January 21, 2015 – January 5, 2023 | |
| Governor | Charlie Baker |
| Preceded by | Martha Coakley |
| Succeeded by | Andrea Campbell |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Maura Tracy Healey February 8, 1971 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.
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 Republican attorney John Miller in the general election. Healey was reelected in 2018. She was elected governor of Massachusetts in 2022.
In 2014, Healey became the first openly lesbian woman elected attorney general of a U.S. state and the first openly LGBTQ person elected to statewide office in Massachusetts. In 2022, she became one of the first two openly lesbian women (alongside Tina Kotek) and the joint-third openly LGBT person (alongside 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.