Maura Hennigan

Maura A. Hennigan (born 1952) is an American politician who currently serves as the Clerk Magistrate of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Superior Court Criminal/Business Division. She is a former member of the Boston City Council and was a mayoral candidate in 2005. From 1987 to 1993, she was known as Maura Hennigan Casey.

Early life Hennigan graduated from Mount Saint Joseph Academy, an all-girls, Catholic college preparatory school in Boston. She attended Salve Regina College, but did not graduate. She later earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She was a teacher in the Boston Public School system for seven years until she lost her job as a result of cuts following the implementation of Proposition 2½. In 1997, she lost the party primary for the Democratic Party nomination in the special election for the Massachusetts Senate seat in the Suffolk and Norfolk District -placing third behind Brian A. Joyce and Maureen Feeney. In both 1984 and 1996, she was elected to the Massachusetts Democratic Party State Committee. She unsuccessfully ran for Mayor of Boston in November 2005, being defeated by incumbent Thomas Menino (who garnered 67% of the vote).

In 2006, Hennigan was elected clerk of the Criminal/Business Court of Suffolk County, defeating assistant clerk of court Robert Dello-Russo. She became the ninth elected official to hold this position, as well as the first female official.

Personal life

As of 2007, Hennigan hosted a weekly television show on Boston Neighborhood Network.