Kamala Harris

 Kamala Devi Harris (born October 20th, 1964) was an American lawyer, politician, and the current vice president of United States. She is the first woman to hold the vice president and is the highest ranking female official in U.S history. As a member of the Democratic Party, she has been attorney general of California from 2011 until 2017, and as a United States senator representing California until 2021. Harris was born in Oakland, California. She graduated from Howard University as well as the University of California Hastings College of the Law. After starting her career as an Alameda County District Attorney Harris was recruited to San Francisco District Attorney's Office. In the following years, she was the City Attorney of San Francisco. The office was named San Francisco district attorney in 2003. In 2010 she was appointed Attorney General of California and then re-elected in 2014. Harris served as the junior United States senator from California between 2017 and 2021. Harris defeated Loretta Sanchez to become the second African American woman senator and the first South Asian American ever to be elected to the United States Senate. She was a senator who worked for health care and federal de-scheduling of cannabis. A path to citizenship for undocumented migrants. The DREAM Act bans assault weapons and progressive tax reform. She gained a national profile for her pointed examination of Trump administration officials during Senate hearings, including Trump's second Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and was accused of sexual assault.







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