Kamala Harris Biography
Kamala Devi Harris is an American politician and attorney serving as the 49th and current vice president of the United States. She is the United states’ first female vice president, the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, and the first African vice president.
How old is Kamala Harris? – Age
The American politician is 56 years old as of 2020. She was born on October 20, 1964 in Oakland, California in the United States.
Kamala Harris Family
The American politician was born by her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, a biologist whose work on the progesterone receptor gene stimulated advances in breast cancer research. Harris’s father, Donald J. Harris, is a stanford University professor emeritus of economics, who arrived in the United States from British Jamaica in 1961 for graduate study at UC Berkeley, receiving a PHD in economics in 1966. They lived in Berkeley in California with her younger sister known as Maya Harris. Their mother introduced them to Hinduism and took them to a nearby Hindu temple, where she occasionally sang. She has also visited her father’s family in Jamaica. Harris parents divorced when she was seven. Her niece, Meena, is the founder of the Phenomenal women Action campaign and former head of strategy and leadership at Uber.
Kamala Harris Marriage – Husband
The American Politician met her husband , attorney Doug Emhoff, through a mutual friend who set up Harris and Emhoff on a blind date in 2013. Emhoff was an entertainment lawyer who became partner-in-charge at Venable LLP’s Los Angeles office. They were then married on August 22, 2014, in Santa Barbara, California. Her husband had already two children, Cole and Ella, and she is the stepmother.
Kamala Harris career
The American politician started as a deputy district attorney in Alameda county, California, where she was described as “an able prosecutor on the way up”. Harris took a six-month leave of absence in 1994 from her duties, then afterward resumed as prosecutor during the years she sat on the boards. In February 1998, San Francisco district attoney Terence Hallinan recruited Harris as an assistant district attorney. In 2000, She reportedly clashed with Hallinan’s assistant, Darrell Salomon, over proposition 21, which granted prosecutors the option of trying juvenile defendants in superior court rather than juvenile courts.
In August 2000, Harris took a job at San Francisco City Hall, working for city attorney Louise Renne. Harris ran the Family and children’s services Division representing child abuse and neglect cases. Renne endorsed Harris during her D.A. campaign.
District Attorney of San Francisco 2004-2011
In 2002, the American politician prepared to run for District Attorney of San Francisco against Hallinan and bill Fazio. Harris won with 56 percent of the vote, becoming the first person of color elected as district attorney of San Francisco. She ran unopposed for a second team in 2007.
In the summer of 2005, She created an environmental crimes unit. In 2007, Harris and city attorney Dennis Herrera investigated San Francisco supervisor Ed Jew for violating residency requirements necessary to hold his supervisor position. She charged Jew with nine felonies. Jew pleaded guilty in October 2008. From 2004 to 2006, Harris achieved an 87 percent conviction rate for homicides and a 90 percent conviction rate for all felony gun violations.
In August 2007, State assemblyman Mark Leno introduced legislation to ban gun shows at the cow palace, joined by Harris, police chief Heather Fong, and major Gavin Newsom. Harris has said life imprisonment without parole is a better and more cost-effective punishment than the death penalty. In 2004, She recruited civil rights activist Lateefah Simon to create the San Francisco reentry Division. In 2006, as part of an initiative to reduce the city’s skyrocketing homicide rate. Harris’s office prosecuted seven parents in 3 years, with none jailed.
Attorney General of California 2011-2017
In the general election she faced republican Los Angeles county district attorney Steve Cooley, who led most of the race. In 2014 Harris announced her intention to run for re-election in February 2014 and filled paperwork to run on February 2014 and filled paperwork to run on February 12. In 2011, She announced the creation of the Mortgage Fraud strike force in the wake of the 2010 United States foreclosure crisis. From 2013 to 2015, Harris pursed financial recoveries for California’s public employee and teacher’s pensions, CaIPERS and CaISTRS against various financial giants for misrepresentation in the sale of mortgage-backed securities. In 2014, Attorney General Kamala co-sponsored legislation to ban the gay and trans panic defense in court. In 2015, She conducted a 90-day review of impact bias in policing and police use of deadly force.
U.S. Senate 2017-2021
Harris announced her candidacy for the senate seat the in 2015. Harris was the top from the beginning of her campaign. In February, Harris spoke in opposition to Trump’s cabinet picks Betsy DeVos, for secretary of Education, and Jeff sessions, for United States Attorney General.
Following her election as Vice president of the United States, She resigned from her seat on January 18, 2021, prior to taking office on January 20, 2021, and was replaced by California secretary of State Alex Padilla.
2020 presidential election 2019-2020
On January 21, 2019, Harris officially announced her candidacy for president of the United States in the 2020 United States presidential election. On December 3, 2019, She withdrew from seeking the 2020 Democratic nomination, citing a shortage of funds. On August 11, 2020, Biden announced that he had chosen Harris. Harris became the Vice president-elect following the Biden-Harris ticket’s victory in the 2020 United States Presidential election.
Vice president 2021
Harris resigned her senate seat on January 18, 2021, two days before her swearing-in as vice president. Her first act as vice president was swearing-in her replacement Alex Padilla and Georgia senators Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, who were elected in the 2021 Georgia runoff elections.
Kamala Harris Net worth
Harris and his husband net worth was over $8.2million as of last year 2020.