Kamala Harris

Kamala Devi Harris born October 20th, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th and current vice president of the United States. She is the first vice president to be female and the highest-ranking female politician in U.S. history, as well as the first African American and first Asian American vice president. She is a member of the Democratic Party and was previously the attorney general of California between 2011 and 2017. Additionally she was the United States senator representing California between 2017 and 2021. Harris was born in Oakland and graduated from 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. In the following years, she was the City Attorney of San Francisco. In 2003 she was elected district attorney of San Francisco. In 2010 Harris was elected Attorney General for California. She was reelected in 2014. From 2017 until 2021, Harris was the junior United States senator for California. Harris defeated Loretta Martinez in the 2016 Senate election to become the second African American woman and first South Asian American senator to be elected to the United States Senate. As a senator she advocated health reform, federal descholaring for cannabis, a pathway for undocumented immigrants to become citizens, the DREAM Act and a ban on assault weapons. She also backed progressive tax reform. In the news, attention was paid to her sharp questions of Trump administration officials at Senate hearings. The most notable was Trump's second Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh who was accused of sexual assault.