Being sworn in at Boston’s historic Faneuil Hall, Maura vowed to lead an office guided by her core values and driven by the issues that matter to the people of the Commonwealth – from health care and energy costs to protecting consumers, ensuring equality for all and keeping our communities safer. AG Maura Healey made history when she was elected in 2015. [37][38] She said the new order, a revised version of the one that had been struck down, "remains a discriminatory and unconstitutional attempt to make good on [Trump's] campaign promise to implement a Muslim ban. [7][10], During a Zoom conference call on June 3, 2020, before 300 members of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, Healey asked for a call to action from business leaders to work to end racial inequalities and systemic racism. [6] She also authored an op-ed in The Boston Globe outlining her plan to combat student loan predators. Maura’s historic victory in her first-ever run for office was driven by a strong grassroots campaign where she bested well-financed, establishment candidates in both the Democratic primary and the general election in November 2014. Her plan includes deployment of new resources to drug trafficking hotspots, improvement of treatment accessibility and expanding access to Narcan. |  She is the first openly gay Attorney General in the United States. Maura Healey began serving as Massachusetts Attorney General in January 2015 and is leading the people’s law firm as the people’s lawyer, continuing a career spent fighting for justice and equal rights. Her office sent a letter to that effect, signed by 20 Attorneys General across the nation, to Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. [18][19][20] Healey wrote an op-ed in the Worcester Telegram and Gazette on upholding the Massachusetts buffer zone law, which she worked on at the Attorney General's Office. And she’s since sued the Trump administration more than a dozen times. Healey was reelected in 2018. 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. |  [24][25], Healey's plan to reduce gun violence seeks to address what she perceives as its root causes.

The official website of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey.

She ended her speech saying, "Yes, America is burning, but that’s how forests grow.”[11][12], In October 2013, Healey announced her candidacy for attorney general. Maura is the oldest of five children and grew up in the small coastal community of Hampton Falls, N.H., just over the Massachusetts border. [16][17] Organizations that endorsed the campaign include the Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund of Massachusetts, MassEquality, and the Victory Fund. [28], Healey plans to combat prescription drug abuse and Massachusetts's heroin epidemic by implementing a "lock-in" program. Since taking office, Healey has tackled issues touching the lives of residents across Massachusetts including the heroin and prescription drug abuse epidemic, escalating health care costs, workers' rights and student loan costs. [1] Upon taking office, she became the first openly gay state attorney general in the United States.[2]. Healey was born and raised in Newburyport, Massachusetts. [4] After graduation, Healey spent two years playing as a starting point guard for a professional basketball team in Austria, UBBC Wustenrot Salzburg. She is a member of the Democratic Party. [10], As a division chief and bureau head in the Attorney General's Office, Healey oversaw 250 lawyers and staff members and supervised the areas of consumer protection, fair labor, ratepayer advocacy, environmental protection, health care, insurance and financial services, civil rights, antitrust, Medicaid fraud, nonprofit organizations and charities, and business, technology and economic development. But that's how forests grow, "AG Healey urges business leaders to seize 'once in a lifetime opportunity' to address racial inequity", "Healey defeats Tolman in Democratic AG primary", "Attorney general hopeful Maura Healey lands endorsements from Rosenberg, Dan Wolf, Jamie Eldridge", "Emily's List Is Endorsing Maura Healey and Deb Goldberg", "Fitchburg mayor endorses Maura Healey for attorney general (video)", "Attorney General hopeful Maura Healey lands endorsements from 2 Western Mass.

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