Maura Healey

 

 

Attorney General Maura Healey is running to become the next Governor of Massachusetts.

Healey was elected as Attorney General of Massachusetts in 2014 and re-elected in 2018. She was the first openly LGBTQ person in the U.S. ever elected as a state attorney general.

For seven years prior to her election, she helped lead the Attorney General’s Office, ultimately overseeing more than half of the office’s 500 employees. She began as Chief of the Civil Rights Division and went on to direct two of the office’s most prominent divisions: the Public Protection & Advocacy Bureau and the Business & Labor Bureau. Earlier in her career, she was a prosecutor in Middlesex County and a litigation partner at WilmerHale.

She attended Harvard College, where she was the captain of the basketball team, and spent two years as a 5’4” starting point guard on a professional basketball team in Austria. She attended Northeastern University School of Law.

 
 

Running for:
Governor

Location:
Massachusetts

Past LPAC Endorsement: 2014, 20218