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Kamala Devi Harris (/ ˈ k ɑː m ə l ə ˈ d eɪ v i / ⓘ KAH-mə-lə DAY-vee, [1] born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who served from 2021 to 2025 as the 49th vice president of the United States under President Joe Biden. She was the first female U.S. vice president, making her the highest-ranking female official ...
After a San Francisco Police Department officer, Isaac Espinoza, was shot and killed in 2004, U.S. senator (and former San Francisco mayor) Dianne Feinstein, [96] U.S. senator Barbara Boxer, Oakland mayor Jerry Brown, and the San Francisco Police Officers Association pressured Harris to reverse that position, but she did not. [97]
She was inaugurated by Chief Justice Rose Bird of the Supreme Court of California on December 4, 1978, becoming San Francisco's first female mayor. [47] Molinari was selected to replace Feinstein as president of the Board of Supervisors by a vote of eight to two. [48] Feinstein riding a cable car in San Francisco during her tenure as mayor, c ...
Harris, 59, and Pelosi, 84, come from different political generations, but both have bridged San Francisco’s long activist tradition and its old-school local Democratic machine.
In 2003, Harris was elected District Attorney of the City and County of San Francisco, a more high-profile role than anything she had tackled yet. Harris would go on to serve two terms as the ...
Kamala Harris was elected the attorney general of California in 2010, becoming the first woman, Black American, and South Asian American to hold the office in the state's history. She took office on January 3, 2011, and would be re-elected in 2014 to serve until she resigned on January 3, 2017, to take her seat in the United States Senate .
Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris at a DNC event for up-and-coming politicians in 2008, when he was San Francisco mayor and she was the city's district attorney. (San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst ...
Willie Lewis Brown Jr. (born March 20, 1934) is an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as mayor of San Francisco from 1996 to 2004 as the first African American to hold the office.