Kamala Harris

 Kamala Devi Harris is an American politician from the United States. Born October 20, 1964, she is the 49th Vice-President of the United States. Harris is the first female vice president and highest-ranking female official in U.S. History, as also the first African American and second Asian American vice president. Being a part of the Democratic Party, she was the attorney general of California from 2011 to 2017 and a United States senator representing California from 2017 to 2021. Harris was born in Oakland. Harris received her law degree from Howard University. Following her first job as an Alameda County District Attorney Harris was hired to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office. Then she was appointed the City Attorney of San Francisco. The office was named San Francisco district attorney in 2003. Harris was elected Attorney General of California in the year 2010. In 2014, she was re-elected. Harris was the United States junior senator from California from 2017 until 2021. Harris beat Loretta Sánchez in the 2016 Senate elections to become the second African American woman, and the first South Asian American, to be senator in the United States Senate. As senator, she fought for healthcare reform as well as federal de-scheduling cannabis, a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and the DREAM Act, a ban on assault weapons, as well as progressive tax reform. She was well-known for the direct questioning she conducted of Trump government officials in Senate hearings.






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