Kamala Harris: The first Black and Indian-American woman to serve as vice president.
Kamala Devi Harris was born on October 20, 1964, in Oakland, California. She has served as the junior United States senator from California since 2017. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, a biologist whose work on the progesterone receptor gene stimulated work in breast cancer research, had arrived in the U.S. from Tamil Nadu in India in 1958 as a 19-year-old graduate student in nutrition and endocrinology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her father, Donald J. Harris, is a Stanford University professor emeritus of economics, who arrived in the U.S. from British Jamaica in 1961 for graduate study at UC Berkeley, receiving a PhD in economics in 1966.
Kamala Harris has made history by becoming the first female vice president of the United States. Also she is the first black woman and the first African American elected as the vice president. Since her mother having Indian origin, she also becomes the first of Indian origin qualify to hold the national office of United States.
Education: Howard University (BA), University of California, Hastings (JD).
Political party: Democratic
Career Path to US Vice President
- 27th District Attorney of San Francisco (2004 – 2011)
- 32nd Attorney General of California (2011 – 2017)
- United States Senator from California (January 3, 2017 - Present)
- Vice President-elect of the United States
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