Maura Healey
| Maura Healey | |
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| 59th Attorney General of Massachusetts | |
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Assumed office January 21, 2015 |
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| Governor | Charlie Baker |
| Preceded by | Martha Coakley |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
February 8, 1971 Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Domestic partner | Gabrielle Wolohojian |
| Education |
Harvard University (BA) Northeastern University (JD) |
| Website | Official website |
Maura T. Healey (born February 8, 1971) is an American attorney, a member of the Democratic Party and the Attorney General of Massachusetts.
Born in New Hampshire, Healey graduated from Harvard College in 1992. She then spent two years playing professional basketball in Austria before returning to the United States and receiving a Juris Doctor degree from the Northeastern University School of Law, in 1998. After clerking for federal judge A. David Mazzone, she worked in private practice for seven years, also serving as a special assistant district attorney in Middlesex County.
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 was then appointed Chief of the Public Protection & Advocacy Bureau and then Chief of the Business and Labor Bureau before resigning in 2013 to run for Attorney General in the 2014 election as Coakley ran for Governor. She defeated former State Senator Warren Tolman in the Democratic primary and then defeated Republican attorney John Miller in the general election, thus becoming the first openly gay state attorney general elected in America.
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