Kamala Harris is the first woman, the first woman of color and the first person of Asian decent to hold the position of Vice President-elect.
So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about her life and career thus far.
- Her full name is Kamala Devi Harris
- She born on October 20, 1964
- She is an American politician and attorney
- She is the vice president-elect of the United States
- A member of the Democratic Party
- She is set to assume office on January 20, 2021, alongside president-elect Joe Biden, having defeated incumbent President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence in the 2020 presidential election
- Harris has served as the junior United States senator from California since 2017
- Harris will be the first Asian-American, the first African-American, and the first female vice president in U.S. history
- She is the highest-ranking female elected official in United States history
- Harris is a Multiracial American
- She was born in Oakland, California
- Harris graduated from Howard University and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law
- She began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office
- Before being recruited to the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office
- Later, she was recruited to the City Attorney of San Francisco’s office
- In 2003, she was elected district attorney of San Francisco
- She was elected Attorney General of California in 2010
- She was re-elected in the same position in 2014
- Harris defeated Loretta Sanchez in the 2016 Senate election to become the second African American woman and the first South Asian American to serve in the United States Senate
- As a senator, she has advocated for healthcare reform, federal descheduling of cannabis, a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, the DREAM Act, a ban on assault weapons, and progressive tax reform
- She gained a national profile for her pointed questioning of Trump administration officials during Senate hearings
- Including Trump’s second Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who was accused of sexual assault
- Harris ran for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination
- She attracted national attention before ending her campaign on December 3, 2019
- She was announced as Biden’s running mate on August 11, 2020
- On November 7, 2020, the race was called in favor of the Biden-Harris ticket
- She will be the second vice president of significant non-European ancestry, following Charles Curtis, who served from 1929 to 1933 alongside President Herbert Hoover
- Harris married attorney Douglas Emhoff, who was at one time partner-in-charge at Venable LLP’s Los Angeles office
- They were married on August 22, 2014, in Santa Barbara, California
- Harris is a stepmother to Emhoff’s two children from his previous marriage to the film producer Kerstin Emhoff
- As of August 2019, Harris and her husband had an estimated net worth of $5.8 million
- She is a Baptist Christian, holding membership of the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco, a congregation of the American Baptist Churches USA
- Harris’s sister, Maya Harris, is a lawyer and MSNBC political analyst
- Her brother-in-law, Tony West, is general counsel of Uber and a former United States Department of Justice senior official
- Her niece, Meena Harris, is the founder of the Phenomenal Women Action Campaign and former head of strategy and leadership at Uber
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