Maura Healey — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Current 73rd Governor of Massachusetts (since 2023).
Served as Massachusetts Attorney General (2015-2023).
First openly lesbian woman elected Attorney General of a U.S. state (2014).
First woman elected Governor of Massachusetts (2022).
Graduated cum laude from Harvard College (1992) and earned a Juris Doctor from Northeastern University School of Law (1998).
Played professional basketball in Austria for UBBC Wüstenrot Salzburg.
Led the state's challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act as chief of the Civil Rights Division.

Biography

Maura Tracy Healey is the 73rd Governor of Massachusetts, a position she has held since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she was elected governor in 2022, becoming the first woman to hold the office in Massachusetts. Prior to her governorship, Healey served as Massachusetts Attorney General from 2015 to 2023.

In 2014, she made history as 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.