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Early Life
Kamala Devi Harris was born on October 20, 1964 in California. Her mother, a Tamil Indian named Shyamala Gopalan Harris, worked as a breast cancer scientist. Her father, a Jamaican named Donald Harris, serves as a Stanford University economics professor. -
early life
in 1989 she returned to California and earned her Juris Doctor (J.D.) from University of California , Hastings College of Law. the following year, she was admitted to the State Bar of California. -
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career
from 1990 to 1998, Kamala Harris served as a deputy district attorney in Alameda County , California, prosecuting cases of robbery, murder, and child rape. In the late 1990s , she worked at the San Francisco District Attorney's office. -
Career
In career , Harris defeated Terence Hallinan to become the San Francisco District Attorney. She is the first South-Asian and black woman to achieve this position .She was again re-elected in November 2007. As the D.A, she began a program that offers first time drug dealers the opportunity to earn an high school diploma and find legal jobs. -
accomplishments
The National Urban League hailed Harris as a "Woman of Power" in 2004 -
accomplishments
She was honoured with the Thurgood Marshall Award from the National Black Prosecutors Association in 2005. -
career
in 2009, Harris got her book " Smart On Crime: A Career Prosecutor's Plan To Make Us Safer " published . In the book, she attempted to analyze criminal justice from an economic perspective. -
career
In 2010, she campaigned in the California Attorney General election, where she faced Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley. She emerged victorious and on January 3, 2011, she became the first Jamaican American woman and the first Indian American attorney general in California. In November 2014, she was re-elected against Ronald Gold. -
marriage
Kamala Harris married Douglas Emhoff, a California attorney, since August 22, 2014. Through the marriage, she became the stepmother of two children. -
major works
On February 12, 2015, she announced that she would launch a new agency called ‘Bureau of Children's Justice’. The bureau was created later the same year. It focuses on issues like the juvenile justice system, foster care, childhood trauma, and school truancy. -
fun facts
Her name means "lotus flower" in Sanskrit -
fun facts
As the daughter of an African-American father and an Indian mother, Harris is the first female, first African-American and first Asian-American Attorney General in California’s history.