Kamala Harris

 Kamala Devi Harris born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and lawyer who is currently the 49th vice-president of the United States. Kamala Devi Harris is the first female vice president , and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, as well as the first African American and first Asian American vice president. Being a part of the Democratic Party, she was the attorney general for California in 2011-2017 and an United States senator representing California from 2017 to 2021. Harris was born in Oakland. Harris received her law degree from Howard University. Her professional career started in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office. Harris was later promoted to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office. In 2003, she was elected San Francisco District Attorney. Harris was elected Attorney General of California in 2010, and then re-elected in 2014. Harris was the junior United States Senator from California between 2017 and 2021. Harris beat Loretta Santiago in the 2016 Senate election and became the second African American woman to serve in Congress and the first South Asian American American to do so in the United States Senate. As a senator, she advocated for reforms to healthcare as well as federal de-scheduling cannabis, a pathway towards citizenship for immigrants without a legal status as well as the DREAM Act, a ban on assault weapons, as well as progressive tax reform. She earned national attention for her pointed questions of Trump administration officials in Senate hearings, which included Trump's second Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and was accused of sexual assault.








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