KERRY MURPHY HEALEY served as the 70th Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 2003-2007. As Lieutenant Governor, Dr. Healey lead successful efforts to combat drunken driving, address homelessness, increase penalties for sex offenders, establish drug-free “recovery” high schools and increase protections for victims of child abuse, gang violence, sexual assault and domestic violence.

After leaving office, she was a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics and Center for Public Leadership. In 2008, Dr. Healey served as a Senior Advisor for the Romney for President campaign. She currently serves as Co-Chairman, with Governor George Pataki, of the American Security Council Foundation’s Independence Initiative (which promotes American energy independence); Vice-Chairman of the National Center on Family Homelessness; and is on the Executive Committee of the US Department of State’s Public-Private Partnership for Justice Reform in Afghanistan (PPP). In 2008, she represented the PPP in Afghanistan and chaired the PPP’s Afghan Women Lawyers Training Program in 2009. A life-long volunteer for the YWCA, Dr. Healey is the YWCA of the USA’s delegate to the United Nations NGO Assembly. With Ambassador Swanee Hunt, Dr. Healey co-chairs the Political Parity Project, a bi-partisan effort to increase women’s representation in elected and appointed leadership positions. She continues her involvement with domestic policy issues as a member of the Advisory Board of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Taubman Institute on State and Local Government.

Prior to her election, Healey served as the Chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party. For more than a decade, Dr. Healey worked as a public policy researcher for Abt Associates, Inc., on contracts with the US Department of Justice. She is the author of numerous publications on criminal justice policy.

Dr. Healey holds an AB from Harvard College (Government) and a Ph.D. from Trinity College, Dublin (Law and Political Science). She was a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School and a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar in Ireland. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Kerry and Sean Healey have been married for 24 years and have two teen-aged children. The Healeys have lived in Beverly, MA, since 1995.