Kamala Harris Biography, Children, Husband, Parents, Net Worth, Political Career

Kamala Devi Harris (born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th and current vice president of the United States. She is the first female vice president and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, as well as the first African-American and first Asian-American vice president. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the attorney general of California from 2011 to 2017 and as a United States senator representing California from 2017 to 2021.

Kamala Devi Harris was born in California on October 20, 1964. Donald Harris is her father, and Shyamala Gopalan is her mother. While growing up, she and her sister Maya attended both a Black Baptist church and a Hindu temple. Harris’s parents divorced when she was seven, and her mother was given custody of both kids.

Kamala Harris Education

The girls and their mother eventually relocated to Montreal, Canada. Harris attended Westmount High School in Quebec before studying political science and economics at Howard University in the U.S. She moved back to California in 1989, when she attended the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, to obtain her Juris Doctor (J.D.). She was accepted into the California State Bar the following year.

Kamala Harris Career

In Alameda County, California, she worked as a deputy district attorney from 1990 to 1998, prosecuting robbery, homicide, and child rape cases. Louise Renne, the elected City Attorney of San Francisco, sought out Harris in 2000 for the job of chief of the Community and Neighborhood Division. In November 2007, she started a program that gives first-time drug traffickers the chance to graduate from high school and find employment. 2009 saw the publication of Harris’s book “Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer.”

She ran for office as California’s attorney general in 2010, running against Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley. After winning, she was sworn in as female attorney general on January 3, 2011. She defeated Ronald Gold for reelection in November 2014. With 62 percent of the vote, she defeated Loretta Sanchez in the 2016 U.S. Senate race in California. She was sworn in as the California senator for the U.S. on January 3, 2017.