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Government Affairs Forum: Attorney General Maura Healey, Commonwealth of MA

June 7, 2022 7:45 am – 9:00 am Seaport Hotel

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  • Thank you for joining us for our third Government Affairs forum of the year that featured Attorney General Maura Healey, Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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Attorney General Maura Healey, the People’s Lawyer, joined us for her annual address to the Chamber membership.

Maura Healey was sworn in as Attorney General back in 2015, pledging to serve as the “People’s Lawyer.” Since taking office, continuing her work fighting for justice and equal rights, Healey has tackled issues including the opioid epidemic, escalating health costs, workers’ rights, student loan costs, gun violence, and addressing the climate crisis. She has also championed reproductive freedom and is focused on improving our criminal justice system.

In this month’s Government Affairs Forum, we were joined by the Attorney General and had a chance to hear more about how her office has continued to advocate for and protect the people of Massachusetts. Thank you for joining us and we hope you had the opportunity to learn more about Maura Healey’s impactful work towards the fight for fairness and equality and her vision for the future. 

Following the event, young professionals joined Attorney General Healey for a special meet & greet, brought to you by City Awake!

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Attorney General Maura Healey

Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Maura Healey was sworn in as Attorney General on January 21, 2015, pledging to lead the People’s Law Firm. Since taking office, Healey has tackled issues…Read more
Maura Healey was sworn in as Attorney General on January 21, 2015, pledging to lead the People’s Law Firm.

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. She has focused on strengthening consumer protections and on improving our criminal justice system.

Building on her promise to run an office that serves people across the state, Healey launched the Community Engagement Division in May 2015. The first-of-its-kind division brings the Attorney General’s Office and its work into neighborhoods and communities across the state. The Division has launched community office hours and has assisted with the rollout of several policy initiatives including the Earned Sick Time law and Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights.

Healey is an advocate for a more equal and inclusive workplace. In May 2015, she announced that her office would provide six weeks of paid family leave for all employees – making the AG’s Office the first state agency to offer paid parental leave. The office has also helped shaped state legislation that would expand opportunities for women in the workplace including Pay Equity and Pregnant Workers Fairness bills.

As a civil rights attorney, Healey is committed to ensuring that all residents are treated fairly. As former head of the office’s Civil Rights Division, Healey was the architect of the state’s successful challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act and argued the case in federal court. As Attorney General, she has advocated for marriage equality and in support of bills to fight discrimination against transgender people. Prior to her election, Healey helped lead the Attorney General’s Office as head of the Civil Rights Division and as Chief of the Public Protection and Business & Labor Bureaus.

In those roles, she helped defend the Massachusetts buffer zone law, which protected women from being harassed at reproductive health care centers. She also shut down predatory lenders that were wreaking havoc on Massachusetts communities and oversaw a team that has worked with homeowners to help make their loans affordable. The program has gotten banks to modify thousands of home mortgages and stop hundreds of foreclosures.

Healey grew up the oldest of five brothers and sisters in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. Her mother worked as a school nurse, her father was a captain in the military and a civil engineer, and her stepfather taught history and coached high school sports. Her family roots are in Newburyport and along the North Shore, where her grandfathers worked at the post office and in the General Electric factory. From her family, she learned values of hard work, discipline, and the importance of taking care of others.

Healey graduated from Harvard College in 1992 and was captain of the women’s basketball team. She played professional basketball in Europe before returning to Massachusetts to attend Northeastern University School of Law. She was inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006.

Early in her career, Healey clerked for Judge David Mazzone in the United States District Court in Massachusetts. Prior to joining the Attorney General’s Office, Healey was a junior partner at the international law firm Wilmer Hale (formerly Hale and Dorr), where she represented clients in the financial services, pharmaceutical, medical device, software, energy, biotechnology and professional sports sectors. She is a former Special Assistant District Attorney in Middlesex County, where she tried drug, assault, domestic violence and motor vehicle cases.

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Agenda

  • 7:45 – 8:10 a.m. | Registration & Networking

    Guests arrive, sign in at registration, and network with fellow attendees.

  • 8:10 – 8:45 a.m. | Keynote Speech

    Attorney General annual address to the business community.

  • 8:45 – 9:00 a.m. | Audience Q&A

    Chamber President & CEO, James E. Rooney, moderates the audience Q&A with Attorney General Maura Healey.

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    -You are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, as defined by the CDC.
    -You have not had a fever, cough, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, chills, muscle pain, sore throat, or new loss of taste or smell that cannot be attributed to another health condition.
    -You have not had contact with a person known to be infected, potentially infected, or exposed to someone infected with COVID-19 within the previous 7 days. (Prior to the event date)

  • PRESS & MEDIA

    Press and media covering the event should RSVP to Casey Baines at [email protected].

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