Maura Healey Biography
Maura Healey is an American attorney, a member of the Democratic Party, and the Massachusetts Attorney General. She 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 and served as a special assistant district attorney in Middlesex County.
She was Hired by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley in 2007, Healey has 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 2014.
She defeated former State Senator Warren Tolman in the Democratic primary and then defeated Republican attorney John Miller in the general election. Healey was reelected in 2018. Upon taking office, she became the first openly gay state attorney general in the United States.
Maura Healey Age
Maura Healey was born on February 8, 1971, in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, United States. She is 48 years old as of 2019.
Maura Healey Net worth | Salary
Maura Healey has an estimated net worth of $4 million as of 2019. She has a salary of
Maura Healey Family
Maura Healey was born to Tracy Healey-Beattie (mother), her mother was a nurse at Lincoln Akerman School in Hampton Falls, while her father was captain in the United States Navy and an engineer. Her stepfather Edward Beattie, taught her history and coached girls’ sports at Winnacunnet High School.
Maura Healey Lesbian
Maura Healey is married to Gabrielle Wolohojian an American judge who serves as an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court. She lives with her partner Gabrielle Wolohojian.
Maura Healey Education
Maura Healey attended Winnacunnet High School, she later joined Harvard College where she got her degree in bachelor of government. She was co-captain of the Harvard basketball team.
After her graduation, she spent two years playing as a starting point guard for a professional basketball team in Austria, UBBC Wustenrot Salzburg. She obtained her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law in 1998.
Maura Healey Massachusetts Attorney
Maura Healey was Hired by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley in 2007, she served as the Chief of Civil Rights Division, where she spearheaded the state’s challenge to the federal Defense Marriage Act.
She was then appointed as the Chief of Public Protection & Advocacy Bureau and Chief of Business and Labor Bureau, before her resignation in 2013 she run for attorney general in 2014.
She defeated former State Senator Warren Tolman in the Democratic primary and then defeated Republican attorney John Miller in the general election. Healey was reelected in 2018. Upon taking office, she became the first openly gay state attorney general in the United States.
On October 2013, she announced her intention to run for attorney general. After Coakley retirement from office to run for Governor. On September 9, 2014, she won the Democratic primary by 126,420 votes, thus defeating former State Senator Warren Tolman by 62.4% to 37.6%.
Her campaign was endorsed by State Senators Stan Rosenberg, Dan Wolf, Jamie Eldridge and America’s largest resource for pro-abortion women in politics, EMILY’s List.
Her campaign had been endorsed by Northeast District Attorney David Sullivan, Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse, Fitchburg Mayor Lisa Wong, and Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz.
All the organization that endorsed her campaign include Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund of Massachusetts, MassEquality and the Victory Fund. She penned an OpEd in the Worcester Telegram and Gazette on upholding the Massachusetts buffer zone law, where she worked on a while in the Attorney General’s Office.
She also authored an op-ed in the Boston Globe outlining her plan to combat student loan predators. She faced Republican nominee John Miller, an attorney, in the general election, and defeated him by 62.5% to 37.5%. Upon taking office, she became the first openly gay state attorney general in the United States.
Maura Healey Political positions
Maura Healey plans to reduce gun violence and seeks to Healey’s plan to reduce gun violence seeks to address what she perceives as the root causes of violence. The plan includes enhancing the background check system to include information regarding recent restraining orders, pending indictments, any relations to domestic violence, parole and probation information.
The plan also seeks to better track stolen and missing guns. Her plan for criminal justice reform includes ending mandatory sentences for non-violent drug offenders and focusing on treatment rather than incarceration. She also plans to combat prescription drug abuse and the heroin epidemic in Massachusetts by implementing a “Lock-in” program.
The program will be carried out in pharmacies as a way to identify and track prescription drug abusers and/or distributors. Her plan also includes the deployment of new resources to drug trafficking hotspots, improvement of treatment accessibility and expanding access to Narcan.
Abortion
Healey’s women’s rights platform focuses on sex education, expanding access to abortion services in Massachusetts and ensuring that every woman in Massachusetts has access to abortion regardless of where she lives, her occupation or her income.
Gun control
On July 20, 2016, she announced her intention to ban the sale or transfer of most semi-automatic rifles inside the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
President Trump
On January 31, 2017, she announced that her office was joining a lawsuit challenging President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order 13769, commonly known as a “Muslim ban.”
Healey condemned the order as being “motivated by anti-Muslim sentiment and Islamophobia, not by a desire to further national security.” The order was eventually struck down in federal court on similar grounds.
On March 9, 2017, Healey announced that her office was joining a lawsuit challenging President Trump’s Executive Order 13780. Healey stated that the new order, a revised version of the one that had previously been struck down, “remains a discriminatory and unconstitutional attempt to make good on [Trump’s] campaign promise to implement a Muslim ban.”
The order has since been blocked in various federal courts on similar grounds. On May 11, 2017, following President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, Healey led efforts calling for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Russia’s meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Her office sent a letter to that effect, signed by twenty Attorneys General from across the nation, to Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. On March 17, Rosenstein appointed a special counsel, choosing former FBI director Robert Mueller for the post.
Maura Healey President Trump
On January 31, 2017, she announced her office was joining a lawsuit challenging by President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order 13769, commonly known as a “Muslim ban.” she condemned the order as being “Motivated by anti-Muslim sentiment and Islamophobia, not by a desire to further national security.” The order was eventually struck down in federal court on similar grounds.
On March 9, 2017, she announced that her office was joining a lawsuit to challenge President Trump’s Executive Order 13780. She started her new order, of the revised version of the one she previously been struck down, “Remains a discriminatory and unconstitutional attempt to make good on a campaign promise to implement a Muslim ban.” The order has since been blocked in various federal courts on similar grounds.
On March 11, 2017, following President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, Healey led efforts calling for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Russia’s meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Her office sent a letter to that effect, signed by twenty Attorneys General from across the nation, to Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. On March 17, Rosenstein appointed a special counsel, choosing former FBI director Robert Mueller for the post.
Maura Healey 2018 election
On November 6, 2018, she was re-elected as Massachusetts Attorney General. Healey was challenged by Republican James McMahon, Healey won with 69.9% of the overall vote.
Maura Healey Gay support
In April, the Supreme Court heard the arguments on the legality of states banning gay marriage. Healey and Governor Charlie Baker have filed briefs in support of striking down those bans.
On the prospects of a decision in support of legalization, he was optimistic. “I am increasing of the view that they’re going to do the right thing come June,” she said.
“It’s an issue for people in Massachusetts,” she continued. “That’s what people don’t always realize. But if you travel outside the state, you may not be able to visit your spouse in the hospital if there’s an injury…It has implications,” she said.
Maura Healey Basketball
Attorney General Maura Healey’s jaw-dropping, no-look pass in a recent charity basketball game might be worth comparing to “Pistol” Pete Maravich, though a few folks in the Massachusetts gun lobby may disagree.
She joined the former Celtics coach Doc Rivers, city chief-of-staff Dan Koh, ESPN’s Jackie MacMullan, and the Globe‘s Bob Ryan at TD Garden for the sixth-annual Hoop Dreams event benefiting Action for Boston Community Development’s WorkSMART initiative, which helps low-income students stay in school.
Co-captain of the women’s basketball team during her time at Harvard, Healey played professional ball in Austria for two years before returning stateside to pursue her law degree at Northeastern University.
She once scrimmaged in a tryout for the legendary Pat Summitt’s U.S. national team, and when the winningest coach in NCAA Division I history passed away this summer, she penned a heartfelt tribute for ESPN.
Shortly after she and Gov. Charlie Baker were elected in 2014, the two engaged in a friendly game of Horse, which Healey came from behind to win. At a February rally in New Hampshire for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Healey tossed on her old Winnacunnet High School uniform.
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