Kamala Harris
Kamala Devi Harris (born October 20, 1964) was an American lawyer, politician and vice president of United States. She is the first female vice-president and the highest ranking female official of the United America. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the attorney general of California from 2011 to 2017 and as the state's attorney general from 2011 to 2017 and as a United States senator representing California from 2017 until 2021. Harris was born in Oakland, California, Harris graduated from Howard University and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Her professional career started with the Alameda County District Attorney's Office. Harris was later promoted to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office. She was elected San Francisco district attorney in 2003. In 2010, she was appointed Attorney General of California and then re-elected in 2014. Harris was the United States junior senator from California from 2017 until 2021. Harris defeated Loretta Martinez in 2016's Senate election to become the 2nd African American woman and first South Asian American senator to be elected to the United States Senate. In her time as a senator, she pushed for health reform, federal descheduling for cannabis, a pathway for immigrants who are not legal citizens, the DREAM Act and a ban on assault weapons. She also supported progressive tax reform. National attention was gained for her shrewd questioning of Trump administration officials during Senate hearings. The most notable was Trump's second Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh who was accused of sexual abuse.




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