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Update on Governor Healey's Cabinet and Leadership Appointments

1/25/2023 ACEC Matters

Update on Governor Healey's Cabinet and Leadership Appointments

Updated as of January 25, 2023, from State House News and Other Sources

Chart on  Gov. Maura Healey's Cabinet (as of 1/25/2023)

In the first week of her term, Gov. Maura Healey is operating with a Cabinet that's in transition, with some holdovers from Gov. Charlie Baker's team paired up with a growing number of Healey's own sworn Cabinet picks.  See the chart above for the information we have as of 1/18/2023. 

Governor Healey is eyeing an eventual 12-person Cabinet.

MassDOT Secretary appointee Gina Fiandaca, tech services appointee Jason Snyder will be sworn in later this month to give them time to transition out of their current jobs.

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From January 11, 2023

Baker's Transportation Secretary Jamey Tesler will continue stay on during this interim period and Matthew Moran, an assistant secretary at the Executive Office of Technology Services and Security, will be acting technology services and security secretary. Jennifer Maddox, undersecretary at the Department of Housing and Community Development under Baker, is acting economic development secretary until Hao is sworn in on Jan. 17.

Healey also still has two Cabinet positions with acting secretaries where she has not yet named a permanent person to fill the role. Mike Doheny, Baker's undersecretary at the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, is acting labor and workforce development secretary, and former chief of the Health Care and Fair Competition Bureau in the attorney general's office Mary Beckman is acting health and human services secretary.

While her exact plan has not been unveiled, Healey intends to split the housing and economic development secretariat into two in a bid to better address the "housing crisis" in Massachusetts. Though she ran on this idea, Healey has not yet said who she hope will help her lead her housing efforts. Until the secretariat is divided, Maddox, and Hao after she is sworn in, will serve as housing and economic development secretary, Hand said.

Healey also has not yet named her own veterans' service secretary -- a role that will rise to a Cabinet level position on March 1 under a law passed last year. For the time being, Baker's secretary Cheryl Lussier Poppe continues to serve in the role, Hand told the News Service.

"These hiring processes are ongoing," Healey said Friday. She later added, "As with all these appointments, we are working as diligently and expeditiously as possible and then make announcements as soon as soon as we're ready to." - Sam Drysdale/SHNS | 1/10/23 11:04 AM

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As of January 4, 2023

Governor-Elect Healey will be sworn in as Governor on January 5, 2023. Here is the Cabinet that Governor Healey has so far announced: Matt Gorzkowicz as secretary of administration and finance, Patrick Tutwiler as education secretary, Gina Fiandaca as transportation secretary, Rebecca Tepper as secretary of energy and environmental affairs, Melissa Hoffer as a Cabinet-level climate chief, Yvonne Hao as economic development secretary, and Jason Snyder as secretary of technology services and security.

On January 4, she appointed an acting secretary of health and human services and the announcement of a series of senior staff positions. Mary Beckman, a Beacon Hill veteran who recently served as the chief of the Health Care and Fair Competition Bureau in Healey's attorney general office, will run the largest secretariat in Massachusetts on an interim basis until a more permanent secretary of health and human services is named, Healey's team announced Wednesday afternoon. Once Healey appoints her long-term secretary, Beckman will shift into the role of senior advisor at HHS.

Jillian Fennimore, a former editor of the Somerville Journal and the Watertown Tab who has worked in press roles at the attorney general's office since 2012, was named Healey's communications director. It's the same role she filled for Healey at the attorney general's office. Karissa Hand, who has spoken for numerous advocacy groups during her time at Melwood Global, will make the jump from press secretary to Healey's gubernatorial campaign to press secretary for the Healey administration.

April English, who worked about 20 years in the attorney general's office including as an assistant attorney general and chief of organization development and inclusion during much of Healey's time as attorney general, will be the administration's chief secretary. The chief secretary oversees an administration's efforts to fill positions on boards and commissions throughout state government.

Healey also announced Marcony Almeida-Barros, who previously worked as chief of the Community Engagement Division of the attorney general's office, as deputy chief of staff for access and engagement; Alicia Rebello-Pradas, a former chief of the Policy & Government Relations Division at the AG's office, as deputy chief of staff for legislative affairs; Cecilia Ugarte Baldwin, a former deputy director of policy and cabinet affairs and deputy legal counsel for Gov. Deval Patrick, as deputy chief of staff for policy and cabinet affairs; Kristian Hoysradt, previously federal programs manager for the National Association of REALTORS, as deputy chief of staff to Lt. Gov.-elect Kim Driscoll; and Driscoll's 2022 campaign manager Juan Gallego as assistant deputy chief of staff to Driscoll.

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