She began her career as a deputy district attorney. She eventually served in San Francisco in this position. She also briefly worked for San Francisco's city attorney. In 2003, she was elected San Francisco District Attorney and reelected in 2007. She was then elected Attorney General of California in 2010 and reelected in 2014. In 2016, she was elected to the United States Senate. She was elected to the Senate with 61.6% of the vote in the general election. And then of course, she was elected Vice President in 2020.
Harris comes from a very diverse background. Her mother (who Harris was very close to and who died in 2009) was a Tamil Indian American who came to the United States in 1958 to study nutrition and endocrinology at Berkeley. Her mother received a PhD and was a well-known researcher into breast cancer. Her father is of Afro-Jamaican ancestry and was a professor of economics at Stanford University. Her parents divorced when she was young. Kamala Harris was born in 1964 in Oakland, California and lived in different places due to her parents moving around for employment. She even lived in Montreal, Quebec for a while as a child. Harris attended Howard University, graduating in 1986 with a dual degree in political science and economics. She also has a law degree from The University of California at Hastings. She is married to Douglas Emhoff.
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