Maura Healey (1971 - )

​The 73rd governor of Massachusetts, Maura Healey is the nation’s first openly lesbian governor, an honor she shares with Oregon’s governor, Tina Kotek. Following her time as a prodigious Massachusetts Attorney, she has a vision for her administration, that emphasizes equality and inclusion, tax reformation, the housing crisis, the retooling of workforce training and climate change. The mother of two children, her partner, nonprofit executive, Joanna Lyndgate, founder and CEO of States United Democracy Center, a nonpartisan Washington nonprofit, seeking to protect free and fair elections and to prevent political violence.