Birth Date: | 24 June 1968 |
Birth Place: | Boston, Massachusetts |
Party: | Democratic |
Title1: | Massachusetts Secretary of Labor and Worforce Development |
Governor1: | Deval Patrick |
Term Start1: | January 17, 2014 |
Term End1: | January 8, 2015 |
Predecessor1: | Joanne F. Goldstein |
Successor1: | Ronald L. Walker II |
Title2: | Massachusetts Registrar of Motor Vehicles |
Governor2: | Deval Patrick |
Term Start2: | 2008 |
Term End2: | 2014 |
Predecessor2: | Anne L. Collins |
Successor2: | Celia Blue |
State House3: | Massachusetts |
District3: | 29th Middlesex |
Term Start3: | 2003 |
Term End3: | 2008 |
Predecessor3: | Timothy J. Toomey Jr. |
Successor3: | Jon Hecht |
State House4: | Massachusetts |
District4: | 32nd Middlesex |
Term Start4: | 1995 |
Term End4: | 2003 |
Predecessor4: | Warren Tolman |
Successor4: | Mike Festa |
Rachel Kaprielian (born June 24, 1968)[1] is an American politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Massachusetts Registrar of Motor Vehicles, and Massachusetts Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development.
Kaprielian was born in 1968 in Boston, Massachusetts. From 1995 to 2008 Kaprielian represented portions of Cambridge and Watertown in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. She finished her law studies at Suffolk University in 2000 and received a Masters of Public Service from Harvard University in 2003.[2] In May 2008 she accepted an appointment as the Massachusetts Registrar of Motor Vehicles from Governor Deval Patrick.[3] She was named Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development on January 17, 2014.[4]
In 2015 she was appointed Regional Director (MA, RI, CT, VT, ME, NH) for the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
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