Maura Healey, a Democratic party candidate, is running for the elections of the Governor of Massachusetts that is scheduled on September 6, 2022.

Maura Healey is currently serving as the Attorney General of Massachusetts and she assumed office on January 21, 2015, at the age of 44 and her current term ends on January 4, 2023.

Who is Maura Healey?

Maura Healey was born in 1971 in Maryland and was raised along with her five siblings in New Hampshire. She graduated from Winnacunnet High School and also earned her bachelor’s degree in 1992 from Harvard University. 

Prior to holding office, she spent two years playing as a starting point guard for a professional basketball team in Austria. Later after moving to the US, she also earned a Juris Doctor degree from Northeastern University School of Law in 1998.

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Maura Healey worked as a private attorney at the firm of Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr. She was a prosecutor in the Middlesex district attorney’s office until she was hired to work for the state attorney general in 2015. 

Initially, in 2007, she was hired in the attorney general’s office as head of the civil rights division. Haley has also led two of the Bureau Office’s that including the Business and Labor Bureau and the Public Protection and Advocacy Bureau. 

She was involved and worked in Massachusetts’ effort to strike down the US Defense of Marriage Act. 

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After assuming office as the Attorney General of Massachusetts in 2015, Maura Healey has handled various issues of residents across Massachusetts. These issues include the heroin and prescription drug abuse epidemic, escalating health care costs, workers’ rights and student loan costs. She has also worked to strengthen consumer protections and improve the criminal justice system in Massachusetts. 

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

She has also been instrumental to ban the manufacturing of most semi-automatic rifles in Massachusetts and her women’s rights platform focuses on sex education, access to abortion services in Massachusetts, and ensures that every woman in Massachusetts has access to abortion regardless of her occupation and income.