Kamala Harris

 Kamala Devi Harris (born October 20, 1964) was an American lawyer, politician and vice president of the United States. Kamala Devi Harris is the first vice president to be female and the most powerful female official in U.S. history, as well as the first African American and first Asian American vice president. A member of Democratic Party, she has been attorney general of California between 2011 and 2017, and as a United States senator representing California until 2021. Harris was born in Oakland and attended Howard University, University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Following her first job as an Alameda County District Attorney, Harris was hired to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office. Later she became the City Attorney of San Francisco. She was elected San Francisco district attorney in 2003. In 2010 Harris was appointed Attorney General for California. She was reelected in 2014. Between 2017 and 2021, Harris was the junior United States senator for California. Harris defeated Loretta Sanchez in the 2016 Senate election to become the 2nd African American woman and the first South Asian American to serve in the United States Senate. As senator, Harris fought for health care, federal de-scheduling and legalization of cannabis as a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and the DREAM Act which bans assault weapons. She was praised nationally for her provocative questions of Trump administration officials in Senate hearings, which included Trump's second Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and was accused of assault on a woman.






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