Kamala Harris
Kamala Devi Harris (born October 20, 1964) was an American lawyer, politician and vice president of the United States. She is the first woman elected vice president and is also the highest-ranking female officer in American history. As a part of the Democratic Party, she previously served as attorney general of California from 2011 to 2017 and was a United States senator representing California from 2017 to 2021. Harris was born in Oakland and graduated from Howard University, University of California, Hastings College of the Law. After establishing her career as an Alameda County District Attorney Harris was recruited to San Francisco District Attorney's Office. Then she was appointed the City Attorney of San Francisco. In 2003 she was elected as San Francisco's district attorney. In 2010, she was elected Attorney General of California and then re-elected in 2014. Harris was the junior United States Senator from California between 2017 and 2021. Harris defeated Loretta Sanchez to become the 2nd African American woman senator and the first South Asian American ever to be elected to the United States Senate. As a senator , she supported health reform, federal descheduling for cannabis, a path for immigrants who are not legal citizens, the DREAM Act and a ban on assault weapons. Harris also backed progressive tax reform. 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 who was accused of assault on a woman.




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