The 44th Attorney General of Massachusetts is an American lawyer and politician, Maura Tracy Healey, also known as Maura Healey.

She is a Democrat, and when she took office, she made history by being the first openly LGBT state attorney general in the history of the United States. She was employed by Martha Coakley, Healey's predecessor, in 2007, and she headed the Civil Rights Division.

Healey led the state's opposition to the federal Defense of Marriage Act while serving in this capacity. Following this role, Healey became the Public Protection and Advocacy Bureau's chief before being named the Business and Labor Bureau's chief.

To run for attorney general in 2014, she resigned in 2013. Healey won the seat after defeating Republican attorney John Miller in the general election and former State Senator Warren Tolman in the Democratic primary. She was re-elected in 2018. Therefore, she has been acting as attorney general since taking office on January 21, 2015.

She was the Democratic nominee for the Governor of Massachusetts in the gubernatorial election of Massachusetts in 2022, and she won. Once she was integrated in January 2021, she will become the first female Governor of Massachusetts, the first openly LGBT woman, and the third LGBT person. 

Who Is Maura Healey's Wife, Gabrielle Wolohojian?

Attorney General Maura Healey is openly LGBT and has been with Gabrielle Wolohojian for a long time.

American judge Gabrielle Wolohojian is now an associate justice on the Massachusetts Appeals Court. She was chosen by Deval Patrick, the 71st Governor of Massachusetts, to succeed Kenneth Laurence.

Her grandparents were immigrants from Armenia. She completed her undergraduate work at Rutgers University, earning an English degree in 1982.

In the following years, she obtained a Ph.D. in English language and literature from Oxford University in 1987 and a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1989. She worked as the Columbia Law Review's editor while attending Columbia Law School.

Being an editor of the Columbia Law Review is highly prized among law students since editors of the Review typically go on to have successful careers, as was the case for Wolohajian.

After graduating from law school, Wolohojian worked as a law clerk for judges Rya Zobel of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and Bailey Aldrich of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, who presided over the first circuit of the United States Court of Appeals.

She joined the company that would later become WilmerHale after completing her clerkship and went into private practice there before being chosen as a partner. Until 1994, Wolohojian was in private practice. She then left to work under Independent Counsel Robert B. Fiske as an Associate Independent Counsel on the inquiry into Jim Guy Tucker, a former governor of Arkansas.

On November 14, 2007, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick nominated Wolohojian to the appeals court to take Associate Justice Kenneth Laurence's place after retirement.

On February 7, 2008, Wolohojian took the oath of office after being confirmed by the Governor's Council. She performs with the Boston Civic Symphony when not practicing law. Although her relationship with Maura Healey is unknown, they have been together for a very long period.

Does Maura Healey Have Any Children?

Maura Healey, the attorney general, is not a parent and has not expressed a desire to be one.

Healey, the first openly LGBT attorney general, has had to put everything she had into her work.

She began her legal career as a clerk for Judge A. David Mazzone of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. During her clerkship, she aided Judge Mazzone with hearings, trials, and case conferences. She also compiled the monthly compliance reports for the Boston Harbor cleanup.

Following her clerkship, she worked for Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP for more than seven years as an associate and subsequently as a junior partner, specializing in business and securities litigation.

She also worked as a special assistant district attorney in Middlesex County during this time, where she handled a number of criminal cases in bench and jury sessions, including those involving drugs, assault, domestic violence, and motor vehicles. She spoke at bail hearings and advocated against suppression requests, surrenders, and probation violations.

She was then hired by Martha Coakley in 2007 and served as Chief of various sectors like the Civil Rights Division, the Business and Labor Bureau, and the Public Protection and Advocacy Bureau.

Maura Healey's Family Background

Maura Tracy Healey, born at the Bethesda Naval Hospital, was raised as the eldest of five brothers and sisters.

Healey's family relocated to Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, when she was nine months old, where she was raised. Her father was an engineer and a captain in the United States Public Health Service; her mother worked as a nurse at the Lincoln Akerman School in Hampton Falls.

At Winnacunnet High School, Edward Beattie coached girls' athletics and taught history. Her ancestors hail from the North Shore and Newburyport.

She graduated with honors from Harvard College in 1992 after attending Winnacunnet High School and majoring in government.

The Harvard Crimson women's basketball team had her as a co-captain. Following graduation, Healey spent two seasons as the starting point guard for UBBC Wustenrot Salzburg, a professional basketball team in Austria.

After returning to the country, she obtained her Juris Doctor from Northeastern University School of Law in 1998. She is sure to be a force in the government as she has been in her career so far, and there can't be anything more than good stuff coming her way.

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