Kamala Harris
Kamala Devi Harris (born October 20, 1964) was an American lawyer, politician, and the current vice president of the United States. She is the first female vice-president and the highest ranking female official in the United States. A member of the Democratic Party, she has been attorney general of California from 2011 until 2017 and was 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. Harris started her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office, before being recruited to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office and later the City Attorney of San Francisco's office. The office was named San Francisco district attorney in 2003. In 2010 Harris was elected Attorney General of California and was re-elected in 2014. Harris was the junior United States Senator from California between 2017 and 2021. Harris beat Loretta Sanchez in the 2016 Senate election, becoming the 2nd African American woman and the first South Asian American to serve in the United States Senate. As a senator, she advocated for reforms to healthcare as well as federal de-scheduling cannabis, a path to citizenship for immigrants who are not legal, the DREAM Act, a ban of assault weapons and progressive tax reform. The attention of the nation was drawn by her sharp questions of Trump administration officials at Senate sessions. This included Trump's second Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh who was accused of sexual misconduct.




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