Nation’s first openly gay AG could be America’s first out lesbian governor

Maura Healey never dreamed of working in government. In fact, she never imagined she’d go into politics at all. After graduating from Harvard University in 1992, where she co-captained the women’s basketball team, the Hampton Falls, New Hampshire native played professionally overseas for two years – no small feat for a 5-foot-4 point guard.

Healey, a Democrat now at the tail end of her second term as Massachusetts’ attorney general, admits her career trajectory has been a bit unorthodox.

“Mine was sort of an unlikely path,” she told Changing America in an interview.

Healey, who in January announced her bid for governor, is remarkable for a lot of reasons, among them being she’s the first female attorney general in the nation to identify as openly gay. Should she win her race in November, Healey will make history again as the state’s first elected female governor and the first out lesbian governor in America.