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Maura Healey

Governor of Massachusetts — currently serving. Party, term history, and sourced provenance. Sections fill in as records land.

Maura Healey

Democratic Massachusetts 2023–present In office

Born February 8, 1971

Terms

  1. Governor of Massachusetts Democratic Current

    January 5, 2023 → present

Background

  • background Born February 8, 1971; American lawyer and politician; member of Democratic Party.
  • role Massachusetts Attorney General (2015–2023); prior chief of Civil Rights, Public Protection, and Business and Labor bureaus.
  • achievement Led Massachusetts' challenge to federal Defense of Marriage Act as chief of Civil Rights Division.
  • achievement First openly lesbian woman elected U.S. state attorney general (2014); first openly LGBTQ Massachusetts statewide official.
  • achievement First woman elected governor of Massachusetts (2022); one of first two openly lesbian women elected U.S. state governor.

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