Maura Healey
What this job does: The governor runs the state government, proposes the budget, signs or vetoes bills and nominates judges. The lieutenant governor steps in when the governor is away and leads the Governor's Council. In Massachusetts the two are elected together as one ticket. A term is four years.
- Current office
- Governor of Massachusetts (since 2023)
- Occupation
- Governor
Background
- Attorney General of Massachusetts from 2015 to 2023; Governor since January 5, 2023 source: en.wikipedia.org
- A.B. in government from Harvard College (1992) and J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law (1998) source: en.wikipedia.org
- Earlier worked as a lawyer at WilmerHale and in the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, where Healey led the Civil Rights Division and later the Public Protection and Advocacy Bureau source: en.wikipedia.org
In their own words
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- Lower costs for residents source: wbur.org
- Defend access to health care and abortion rights source: wbur.org
- Keep children and seniors from going hungry source: wbur.org
- Invest in research and job creation source: wbur.org
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