SOUTH HADLEY — Gov. Maura Healey will give the commencement speech to Mount Holyoke College’s Class of 2025 at the 188th graduation ceremonies in May.

The college announced Wednesday that Healey, who is in her first term as governor after having served two terms as attorney general for Massachusetts, will give the keynote address to undergraduates, graduate students and certificate recipients at the May 25 graduation.

Two Mount Holyoke alums, Bess Weatherman ‘82 and Tara Roberts ‘91, will also be honored at commencement, which begins at 10:30 a.m. at the outdoor location of Pageant Green. Mount Holyoke President Danielle R. Holley will preside over the ceremony and award degrees to more than 500 bachelor’s and master’s degree graduates.

Healey is the 73rd governor of Massachusetts. In 2022, she became the first woman and first openly LGBTQ+ person elected to lead the commonwealth. She recently announced her intention to run for reelection next year.

Healey was elected attorney general in 2014 and served two terms until becoming governor. She grew up the oldest of five children with a single mom, captained her basketball team at Harvard University and played professionally in Austria, and worked as a business and civil rights lawyer.

Others to be honored

Also being honored at commencement is Weatherman, a graduate of the Class of 1982 who is currently a college trustee and chair of its investment committee.

She is a special limited partner of Warburg Pincus LLC, a global private equity firm focused on growth investing, where she spent 28 years as a health care investor.

Weatherman has also made investments toward scholarship efforts, student safety net and capital projects at MHC. She is the co-founder of the R.T. Weatherman Foundation which is currently dedicated to filling gaps in humanitarian aid to Ukraine, including the transportation of critically wounded international volunteer soldiers to specialty hospitals in Western Europe and the identification and repatriation of the remains of Americans killed in action.

Also being honored is Roberts, an author who graduated with the Class of 1991, the first Black woman explorer to ever be featured on the cover of National Geographic.

Roberts has written extensively on the group Dive With a Purpose, a group of scuba divers documenting shipwrecks from the Middle Passage. She first launched a blog series which became the six-part podcast series “Into the Depths.” The podcast resulted in Roberts being named 2022’s Rolex National Geographic Explorer of the Year.

She has recently released the memoir “Written in the Waters” about her time with Diving with a Purpose.