37 Facts About Kerry Healey

Kerry Healey previously served as the 70th lieutenant governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 under Governor Mitt Romney.

Kerry Healey currently serves on the boards of public companies, universities, cultural organizations and the Forward Party.

Kerry Healey served as a special advisor for Mitt Romney's Presidential Campaign in 2012.

Kerry Healey then served as the president of Babson College for six years, retiring in 2019.

Kerry Healey left the Republican Party on January 7,2021, and joined the Forward Party in June 2023.

Kerry Healey grew up in Ormond Beach, Florida and is the only child of Shirley and Edward Murphy.

Kerry Healey's father served during World War II and retired as a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army Reserve after 27 years of service.

Kerry Healey's mother worked as a public elementary school teacher.

When Kerry Healey was 15, her father suffered a severe heart attack that rendered him unable to work for the rest of his life.

Kerry Healey served as class president and student council president at Seabreeze High School.

When she was 16, Kerry Healey enrolled in Daytona Beach Community College and began to take classes in computer science.

Kerry Healey was hired to help the Daytona Beach News-Journal become one of the first newspapers to transition from typewriters to computerized word processing.

In 1986, Kerry Healey joined Abt Associates, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she performed policy research for the US Department of Justice related to child abuse and neglect, domestic violence, gang violence, victim and witness intimidation and the prosecution of drug crimes.

That same year, Kerry Healey was elected the Republican State Committee.

The Romney-Kerry Healey team was successful, and Kerry Healey was elected lieutenant governor on November 5,2002.

Kerry Murphy Healey was sworn into office as the lieutenant governor of Massachusetts on January 2,2003.

Kerry Healey served as the governor's liaison to cities and the Republican party.

Kerry Healey was credited with creating a package of legislative proposals, called the Municipal Relief Act, that reduced expensive and burdensome state mandates, easing the pain of cuts to state aid by about $75 million.

Kerry Healey headed the Governor's Commission on Criminal Justice Innovation, a bipartisan, multi-agency group focused on reforming the Massachusetts criminal justice system.

Kerry Healey recommended and worked to champion programs to supervise and support inmates transitioning back to society, including proposals for mandatory post-release supervision.

In 2005, Kerry Healey supported a proposed ban on same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, in favor of civil unions.

Kerry Healey has since made her support for same-sex marriage known.

Kerry Healey was endorsed by Massachusetts' top gun owners group, but she and Governor Romney worked in a bipartisan manner on gun control, including extending the ban on semi-automatic weapons.

Kerry Healey supported immigration status checks during regular police traffic stops and deportation of illegal immigrants.

However, Kerry Healey faced early competition from within her own party from Republican Christy Mihos, the former owner of a chain of convenience stores.

Early polls showed Patrick with as much as a 25-point lead over Kerry Healey following a competitive Democratic primary, despite most voters backing Kerry Healey's support of rolling back the state income tax to five percent, denying in-state tuition rates at state colleges to undocumented immigrants, denying driver's licenses to such residents and requiring photo identification for voting.

Critics of Kerry Healey's ad argued that it confused the proper role of criminal defence lawyers in the judicial system.

The Kerry Healey's campaign denied any involvement in the leak, and in turn accused Patrick of initiating a "smear campaign" over the issue.

In 2009, Kerry Healey partnered with Ambassador Swanee Hunt to co-chair the Political Parity project.

On September 6,2009, Kerry Healey announced that she would not run for the vacant post.

In 2010, Kerry Healey was the creator and host of Shining City, which was featured on the New England Sports Network.

Kerry Healey was a special advisor and the foreign policy coordinator for Romney for president.

Kerry Healey serves on the advisory boards of the Harvard Kennedy School's Tubman Institute on State and Local Government and the MIT Collaborative's Healthcare Visionary Council.

Kerry Healey currently serves or has served on numerous non-profit boards, including the Pioneer Institute, the National Center on Family Homelessness, Milton Academy, the American University of Afghanistan, National State Leadership Council, Caritas Cubana, and the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company.

Kerry Healey had been cited for a cabinet role in a Mitt Romney Presidential administration, had Romney been elected.

In June 2023, it was announced that Kerry Healey had joined the board of directors of the Forward Party.

Kerry Healey was married to Sean Kerry Healey, CEO of Affiliated Managers Group.