Maureen Murphy (née Toolan; November 14, 1952 – August 9, 2008) was an American politician in the Republican Party.
[3] After working as a realtor, Murphy served on the Evergreen Park High School Board (to which she was elected in 1982) and as Worth Township Clerk (from 1985 to 1989).
[4] Murphy served as Chairman of the Cook County Republican Party from 2002 to 2004; she was the first woman to hold that position.
In her last two years of the board, she joined Joseph Berrios to block the reforms championed by its remaining member, Larry Rogers, Jr.[5] On November 7, 2006 Murphy was defeated in her bid for reelection losing to Democrat Brendan F. Houlihan by a narrow margin of 2.4%.
Murphy died from lung cancer at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago on August 9, 2008, at the age of 55.