Summary

Current Position: Massachusetts Governor since 2023
Affiliation: Democrat
Former Position: Massachusetts Attorney General from 2015 to 2023

Healey served as chief of the Civil Rights Division, where she spearheaded 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.

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Maura Healey - MAMaura Healey is the 73rd Governor of Massachusetts. She was sworn in on January 5, 2023, becoming the first woman and first openly LGBTQ person elected Governor in Massachusetts history.

Governor Healey and Lieutenant Governor Driscoll are building an experienced, diverse team that is focused on bringing people together and delivering results for Massachusetts residents. They’re committed to making Massachusetts more affordable and growing the state’s economic competitiveness by prioritizing housing, transportation, job training and child care. They believe that Massachusetts has the greatest collection of human and intellectual capital, business, innovation, and know-how in the world. They are harnessing these resources to deliver for residents, families, and businesses throughout the entire state.

Healey was elected Massachusetts Attorney General in 2014 and re-elected in 2018. As the People’s Lawyer, she took on the issues that impact residents across Massachusetts, including the opioid epidemic, the climate crisis, escalating health care costs, and student loan debt. She was the first Attorney General to sue Purdue Pharma and the Sacklers for their role in fueling the opioid crisis. She also routinely protected the rights of consumers, workers, students, seniors, immigrants and the LGBTQ and disability communities.

Building on her promise to run an office that serves people across the state, Healey launched the Community Engagement Division in May 2015. The first-of-its-kind division brought the Attorney General’s Office and its work into neighborhoods and communities across the state. The Division launched community office hours and has assisted with the rollout of several policy initiatives including the Earned Sick Time law and Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights.

Healey grew up the oldest of five siblings in an old farm house in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. They were raised by their mother, Tracy, who worked as a nurse at the local elementary school. Her stepdad, Edward, later joined the family and was a teacher, local union president, and coached her high school basketball team, giving her a lifelong love of the game.

Healey attended Harvard College, where she captained the basketball team, and then spent two years as a 5’4” starting point guard on a professional basketball team in Austria. She attended Northeastern University School of Law, motivated by a commitment to public service and desire to help people

She went on to work in private practice before leaving to serve as Chief of the Civil Rights Division in the Attorney General’s Office. She was promoted to oversee two of the office’s most prominent divisions: the Public Protection & Advocacy Bureau and the Business & Labor Bureau. During this time, she led the first state challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act and held banks and lending companies accountable after the 2008 financial crisis.

Personal

Full Name: Maura Healey

Gender: Female

Birth Date: 02/08/1971

Birth Place: Bethesda, MD

Home City: Boston, MA

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Political Experience

Professional Experience

Office

Governor Maura Healey’s Office of Constituent Services
Massachusetts State House, 24 Beacon St.,
Office of the Governor,
Room 280, Boston, MA 02133

Contact

Email: Government

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Politics

Source: Government

Election Results

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Finances

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New Legislation

Issues

Climate & Clean Energy

Governor Healey and Lieutenant Governor Driscoll know that the climate crisis is our biggest challenge, but there is also enormous opportunity in our response. They want to meet this moment with innovation and urgency to make Massachusetts a world leader in combating the climate crisis and driving our clean energy economy.

They’ve already made that commitment clear by creating the position of Climate Chief, a new cabinet-level position responsible for driving climate policy across every agency and ensuring that climate change is considered in all relevant decision-making. Massachusetts is the first state in the nation to establish such a position at the cabinet level.

Affordable & Abundant Housing

Governor Healey and Lieutenant Governor Driscoll know that making Massachusetts more affordable begins with making housing more affordable. The cost of housing right now is unsustainable for families, businesses, and our state’s future. Our challenge is to dramatically increase the production and supply of housing, and to make it more affordable for all.

To spearhead these efforts, the Healey-Driscoll administration is creating a new Secretary of Housing. This Secretary will work across government and across the state, supporting cities and towns in every region, to make sure we meet our housing goals.

Governor Healey has also directed Secretary of Administration and Finance Matthew Gorzkowicz to identify unused state owned land and public property to turn into rental housing or home ownership within the year. The administration is also committed to expanding opportunities for first-time home buyers by better funding down payment and closing assistance programs, and expanding rental assistance and the rental tax deduction to reduce costs for renters.

But Governor Healey and Lieutenant Governor Driscoll know that to truly tackle this problem, we need everyone acting together. That’s why they’ve asked every community, every local official, and every citizen to join them in these efforts. On the local level, this starts with building more housing near transit hubs, adjusting zoning ordinances, and actively preserving our housing stock.

Housing is a problem everywhere, and everyone will play a part in the solution

High-quality Education

Massachusetts is the birthplace of public education in the U.S., home to world-renowned schools and educators. But the opportunity gaps that already existed have only been exacerbated by COVID-19. Governor Healey and Lieutenant Governor Driscoll are committed to rebuilding our education system so that it works better for everyone and to ensure that every Massachusetts resident has access to a quality education, from early education through higher education.

It starts with making early education and care more affordable and accessible. Governor Healey and Lieutenant Governor Driscoll support a comprehensive solution to the child care crisis, such as legislation in line with Common Start that would make sure every family pays what they can afford, and that care workers are paid what they deserve. This is something our families, workers, and businesses all agree on.

The administration will fund the Student Opportunity Act to ensure that every student and every school gets the resources they deserve. They’ll also increase wraparound services like mental health care and food security because students can not reach their potential if they are homeless or hungry or suffering from untreated mental illness.

Finally, Governor Healey and Lieutenant Governor Driscoll want to make sure that every Massachusetts resident has access to the type of higher education that works for them. This is essential for solving our workforce shortages – right now there are tens of thousands of jobs in health care, transportation, and technology left unfilled because many workers’ skills don’t match today’s demands. That’s why Governor Healey and Lieutenant Governor Driscoll plan to launch a major initiative with our community colleges and vocational training schools to align the training we offer with the needs of our companies in every region. They’ve pledged to create and fully fund the new MassReconnect program, which will offer free community college to all students over 25 who have not earned a college degree. They’ll also work to enhance early college opportunities and increase funding to our state university system so everyone can afford to get a higher degree.

Safe & Reliable Transportation

Governor Healey and Lieutenant Governor Driscoll know that we can’t have a functioning economy without a functioning transportation system. They know that the current state of our transportation infrastructure is unacceptable. They’re going to get back to basics and relentlessly focus on safety, reliability, and staffing.

It starts with the workforce. The MBTA in particular is experiencing a critical workforce shortage. That’s why Governor Healey and Lieutenant Governor Driscoll have pledged  to include funding in her first budget to hire 1,000 additional MBTA workers in the first year of her administration. They will also work with high schools, vocational technical schools, and community colleges to create a pipeline for the next generation of transportation workers.

The Governor and Lieutenant Governor have already launched a worldwide search for the next MBTA General Manager. This person will have deep transit experience and will be focused on safety and reliability. They are also creating the position of Transportation Safety Chief, who will conduct a full safety audit of our system.

Governor Healey and Lieutenant Governor Driscoll will also take a regional approach to public transportation and identify ways to make our system more interconnected. One project in particular that they are committed to seeing through is West-East Rail, and they will appoint a West-East Rail Director to lead these efforts.

Our roads and bridges also remain in a state of disrepair. There are billions in federal funding available to fix it, but Massachusetts competes with every state in the country for those dollars. That is why Governor Healey and Lieutenant Governor Driscoll will be forming a transportation funding task force – the first of its kind – to compete for those federal infrastructure funds and ensure Massachusetts gets every available dollar for shovel ready projects in every region

Affordability & Competition

Governor Healey and Lieutenant Governor Driscoll know that if we want to unlock the full potential of our people, we must remove the barriers holding them back. That starts with addressing our high costs and making Massachusetts more affordable.

That means building more housing, and also requires lowering the cost of education from early childcare through higher education. They have also proposed an expanded child tax credit that would give every family additional money back in their pockets per year for every child and support a number of measures to provide real relief to renters, seniors and low- and middle-income families.

Governor Healey and Lieutenant Governor Driscoll also know that our workers and businesses need to have a level playing field to compete on. That’s why they’ve pledged to introduce a wage theft bill to make sure workers are paid what they are owed and that the businesses who play by the rules are protected

Wikipedia

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 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]

Early life and education

Born at the Bethesda Naval Hospital,[6] Healey grew up as the oldest of five brothers and sisters. When she was nine months old, her family moved to Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, where she was raised.[7] Her mother was a nurse at Lincoln Akerman School in Hampton Falls; her father was a captain in the United States Public Health Service and an engineer. After divorcing, her mother sold her wedding ring to pay for a backyard basketball court.[6] Healey’s stepfather, Edward Beattie, taught history and coached girls’ sports at Winnacunnet High School. Her family roots are in Newburyport and the North Shore area, while several of her grandparents and great-grandparents were born in Ireland.[8]

Healey attended Winnacunnet High School,[9] and majored in government at Harvard College, graduating cum laude in 1992. She was co-captain of the Harvard Crimson women’s basketball team.[10] After graduation, Healey spent two years playing as a starting point guard for a professional basketball team in Austria, UBBC Wustenrot Salzburg.[11] Upon returning to the United States, she earned a Juris Doctor from Northeastern University School of Law in 1998.[12]

Career

Healey began her legal career by clerking for Judge A. David Mazzone of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, where she prepared monthly compliance reports on the cleanup of the Boston Harbor and assisted the judge with trials, hearings, and case conferences. Healey subsequently spent more than seven years at the law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, where she worked as an associate and then junior partner and focused on commercial and securities litigation.[13]

She also served as a special assistant district attorney in Middlesex County, where she tried drug, assault, domestic violence, and motor vehicle cases in bench and jury sessions and argued bail hearings, motions to suppress, and probation violations and surrenders.[13]

Healey (right) and Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley at a July 8, 2010, press conference on the Massachusetts v. U.S. Dep’t of Health & Human Servs. lawsuit challenging the Defense of Marriage Act

Hired by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley in 2007, Healey served as chief of the Civil Rights Division, where she spearheaded the state’s challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act. She led the winning arguments for Massachusetts in the country’s first lawsuit striking down the law.[14]

In 2012, Healey was promoted to chief of the Public Protection and Advocacy Bureau.[15] She was then appointed chief of the Business and Labor Bureau.[16]

As a division chief and bureau head in the Attorney General’s Office, Healey oversaw 250 lawyers and staff members and supervised the areas of consumer protection, fair labor, ratepayer advocacy, environmental protection, health care, insurance and financial services, civil rights, antitrust, Medicaid fraud, nonprofit organizations and charities, and business, technology, and economic development.[13][16]

During a Zoom conference call on June 3, 2020, before 300 members of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, Healey asked for a call to action from business leaders to work to end racial inequalities and systemic racism. She ended her speech by saying, “Yes, America is burning, but that’s how forests grow.”[17][18]

Attorney General of Massachusetts (2015–2023)

Healey’s official attorney general photo

Elections

2014

Main article: 2014 Massachusetts general election § Attorney General

In October 2013, Healey announced her candidacy for attorney general. Coakley was retiring from the office to run for governor. On September 9, 2014, Healey won the Democratic primary by 126,420 votes, defeating former State Senator Warren Tolman, 62.4% to 37.6%.[19]

Healey’s campaign was endorsed by State Senators Stan Rosenberg, Dan Wolf, Jamie Eldridge and America’s largest resource for pro-choice women in politics, EMILY’s List.[20][21] It was also endorsed by Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan, Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse, Fitchburg Mayor Lisa Wong, and Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz.[22][23] Organizations that endorsed the campaign include the Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund of Massachusetts, MassEquality, and the Victory Fund.[24][25][26] Healey wrote an op-ed in the Worcester Telegram and Gazette on upholding the Massachusetts buffer zone law, which she worked on at the Attorney General’s Office.[12] She also authored an op-ed in The Boston Globe outlining her plan to combat student loan predators.[27][28][29]

Healey defeated Republican nominee John Miller, an attorney, in the general election, 62.5% to 37.5%. Upon taking office, she became the United States’ first openly lesbian state attorney general.[30][31]

2018

Main article: 2018 Massachusetts elections § Attorney General

On November 6, 2018, Healey was reelected Massachusetts Attorney General, defeating Republican nominee James McMahon with 69.9% of the vote.[1]

Tenure

Healy (far right) in 2016 with (left to right): State Senator Karen Spilka, State Rep. Ken Gordon, Secretary of Labor Tom Perez, and State Rep. John Scibak

Healey’s plan to reduce gun violence addresses what she perceives as its root causes. The program includes enhancing the background check system to include information regarding recent restraining orders, pending indictments, and any relations to domestic violence, parole, and probation information. The plan also seeks to track better stolen and missing guns. Healey advocates fingerprint trigger locks and firearm micro-stamping on all guns sold in Massachusetts.[32][33]

Healey’s plan for criminal justice reform includes ending mandatory sentences for nonviolent drug offenders and focusing on treatment rather than incarceration.[34]

Healey plans to combat prescription drug abuse and Massachusetts’s heroin epidemic by implementing a “lock-in” program. The program will be carried out in pharmacies to identify and track prescription drug abusers and distributors. Her plan includes deployment of new resources to drug trafficking hotspots, improvement of treatment accessibility, and expanding access to Narcan.[35]

Abortion

Healey’s women’s rights platform focuses on sex education, expanding access to abortion services in Massachusetts, and ensuring that every woman in Massachusetts has access to abortion, regardless of where she lives, her occupation, or her income.[36]

Gun control

On July 20, 2016, Healey announced her intention to ban the manufacturing of most assault rifles in Massachusetts.[37]

Trump administration

On January 31, 2017, Healey announced that her office was joining a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump‘s Executive Order 13769,[38][39] commonly known as a “Muslim ban.”[40][41] Healey condemned the order as “motivated by anti-Muslim sentiment and Islamophobia, not by a desire to further national security.”[38] A federal court eventually struck the order down on similar grounds.[42]

On March 9, 2017, Healey announced that her office was joining a lawsuit challenging Trump’s Executive Order 13780.[43][44] She said the new order, a revised version of the one that had been struck down, “remains a discriminatory and unconstitutional attempt to make good on [Trump’s] campaign promise to implement a Muslim ban.”[43] The order has been blocked in various federal courts on similar grounds.[44][45]

On May 11, 2017, after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, Healey led efforts calling for a special counsel to investigate Russia’s meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Her office sent a letter to that effect, signed by 20 Attorneys General across the nation, to Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.[46] On May 17, Rosenstein appointed a special counsel, former FBI director Robert Mueller.[47]

Purdue Pharma

In 2021, Healey announced a resolution against the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma. The resolution requires a payment of more than $4.3 billion for prevention, treatment, and recovery efforts in communities across the country. It will also require Purdue Pharma to be wound down or sold by 2024 and ensure that the Sacklers are banned from the opioid business and required to turn over control of family foundations to an independent trustee to be used to address the opioid epidemic.[48]

Governor of Massachusetts

Elections

2022

Main article: 2022 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
Final results by county
Final results by county in 2022:

  Maura Healey
  •   40–50%
  •   50–60%
  •   60–70%
  •   70–80%
  •   80–90%
  •   40–50%
  •   50–60%
  •   60–70%

On January 20, 2022, Healey announced her candidacy in the 2022 Massachusetts gubernatorial election.[49] Her announcement came after the incumbent governor, Charlie Baker, a Republican, announced he would not seek reelection. On September 6, 2022, Healey won the Democratic primary election. She defeated Sonia Chang-Diaz, who withdrew from the primary. Healey was endorsed by Vice President Kamala Harris and U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey.

On November 8, 2022, she defeated Geoff Diehl, the Republican nominee, in the general election, which made her the nation’s first openly lesbian governor. She was inaugurated on January 5, 2023.

Tenure

Healey taking oath as governor
Healey speaking with former governor Michael Dukakis at her 2024 State of the Commonwealth address

The day after being sworn in, Healey signed an Executive Order establishing the Office of Climate Innovation and Resilience and creating a cabinet-level position of Climate Chief to head the office. According to Healey, the office will be tasked with working with state and local leaders to help the Commonwealth reach its climate goals and help coordinate the efforts. The Climate Chief will also be the governor’s primary advisor on climate issues. Healey appointed Melissa Hoffer to the role.[50][51]

In February 2023, the Healey administration announced a $742 million tax cut package to be filed, as an addition to its proposed fiscal year 2024 budget. Among the proposals included was an increase in the child and family tax credit from $240 to $600 per child or dependent. The plans also increase the rental deduction cap from 50% of rent up to $3,000 to 50% of $4,000. Under the proposal, the state’s short-term capital gains tax is reduced from 12% to 5% and the estate tax threshold is raised from $1 million to $3 million.[52][53] The state legislature passed a scaled-back version of this proposal that increased the child and dependent tax credit to $310 for the 2023 tax year and $440 for following years. The short-term capital gains tax was reduced to 8.5%, and the estate tax was eliminated for all estates under $2 million. Healey signed these changes into law on October 4, 2023.[54]

At a news conference held at Bunker Hill Community College in March 2023, Healey announced a $20 million appropriation to her 2024 fiscal year state budget proposal to create a free community college program, “MassReconnect”, for Massachusetts residents 25 or older with a secondary school degree or post-secondary course credits, to address the skills gap in the state workforce.[55][56] The state legislature approved the plan, as part of the 2024 fiscal year state budget, which Healey signed into law in August.[57][58] In May 2023, Healey’s administration announced $24.4 million in job creation tax incentives for 43 life sciences companies in the state to create 1,600 jobs.[59]

In August 2023, Healey declared a state of emergency, due to an increase in migrants seeking shelter in the state. Massachusetts is the only U.S. state that must provide emergency housing to families who qualify. At the time of the emergency declaration, the shelter system was housing over 20,000 people.[60][61] Healey set a limit of 7,500 on the number of families that could be housed in the state’s emergency shelter system. The state exceeded this limit in November 2023. On November 9, Healey announced that families would be placed on a waiting list and would enter the shelter system as housing units became available.[62] In December, she signed a $3.1 billion supplemental budget bill that added another $250 million in funding for the state’s shelter system and created an overflow location for migrants who were unable to enter the state’s shelter system. Later that month, the administration designated five locations as overflow sites.[63][64] On April 30, 2024, Healey signed a bill that directed another $251 million into the shelter system for the rest of fiscal year 2024 and limited how long families can stay in the shelter system to nine months.[65]

In February 2024, Healey nominated her former romantic partner, appellate court judge Gabrielle Wolohojian, to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Facing criticism for this decision, especially from Massachusetts Republican Party chair Amy Carnevale, who called on her to withdraw the nomination, Healey defended the choice. “I don’t want the fact that she had a personal relationship with me to deprive the commonwealth of a person who’s most qualified for the position”, she told reporters.[66][67] The Governor’s Council approved the nomination on February 28 and Wolohojian was sworn in on April 22.[68][69]

Personal life

Healey with her partner, Joanna Lydgate (left), in 2023

In July 2022, Healey moved from Boston to Cambridge, Massachusetts.[70] She plays basketball recreationally.[71][72][73][74] On January 9, 2023, shortly after being inaugurated as governor, Healey announced that she is in a relationship with attorney Joanna Lydgate, her former chief deputy. She clarified that their relationship did not begin until Lydgate had departed the role to co-found the States United Democracy Center, a voting rights advocacy organization.[75]

Healey is Catholic.[76][77]

Electoral history

Governor Healey taking questions at the Boston Public Library in 2023.

Attorney General of Massachusetts

2014 Massachusetts Attorney General Democratic primary election
PartyCandidateVotes%
DemocraticMaura Healey 322,380 62.1
DemocraticWarren Tolman195,65437.7
Write-in7210.1
Total votes518,755 100.0
2014 Massachusetts Attorney General election
PartyCandidateVotes%
DemocraticMaura Healey 1,280,513 61.7
RepublicanJohn Miller793,82138.2
Write-in1,8850.1
Total votes2,076,219 100.0
2018 Massachusetts Attorney General election
PartyCandidateVotes%
DemocraticMaura Healey 1,874,209 69.9
RepublicanJay McMahon III804,83230.0
Write-in1,8580.1
Total votes2,680,899 100.0

Governor of Massachusetts

Massachusetts gubernatorial Democratic primary election, 2022[78]
PartyCandidateVotes%
DemocraticMaura Healey 642,092 85.3
DemocraticSonia Chang-Diaz108,57414.4
Write-in1,9720.3
Total votes777,226 100.0
Massachusetts gubernatorial general election, 2022[79]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DemocraticMaura Healey 1,584,403 63.7% +30.6%
RepublicanGeoff Diehl859,34334.6%−32%
LibertarianKevin Reed39,2051.6%+1.6%
Turnout2,508,298100%
Democratic gain from RepublicanSwing

See also

Notes

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Party political offices
Preceded by

 Democratic nominee for Attorney General of Massachusetts
2014, 2018		Succeeded by

Preceded by

 Democratic nominee for Governor of Massachusetts
2022		Most recent
Legal offices
Preceded by

 Attorney General of Massachusetts
2015–2023		Succeeded by

Political offices
Preceded by

 Governor of Massachusetts
2023–present		Incumbent
U.S. order of precedence (ceremonial)
Preceded by

as Vice President

 Order of precedence of the United States
Within Massachusetts		Succeeded by

Mayor of city
in which event is held
Succeeded by

Otherwise Mike Johnson

as Speaker of the House

Preceded by

as Governor of Connecticut

 Order of precedence of the United States
Outside Massachusetts		Succeeded by

as Governor of Maryland

  1. ^ Kalb, Deborah; Moore, John Leo, eds. (2022). Elections A to Z. American government A to Z series / CQ Press (Fifth ed.). Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications. ISBN 978-1-0718-5363-4. OCLC 1346937469.


source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maura_Healey