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Kamala Devi Harris [b] (born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who has been the 49th and current vice president of the United States since 2021 under President Joe Biden. She is the first female U.S. vice president, making her the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history.
Harris, alongside Araujo's mother Sylvia Guerrero, convened a two-day conference of at least 200 prosecutors and law enforcement officials nationwide to discuss strategies to counter such legal defenses. [91] Harris subsequently supported A.B. 1160, the Gwen Araujo Justice for Victims Act, advocating that California's penal code include jury ...
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 .
Harris got her start in Bay Area politics and law enforcement. She prosecuted murder, rape, assault and drug cases at the Alameda County district attorney’s office in Oakland from 1990 to 1998.
Kamala Harris was elected United States Senator for California in 2016, another history-making achievement for the lawyer turned politician. When Harris was sworn in early in 2017, she became the ...
From public prosecutor to California's 'top cop' After earning her law degree at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, in 1989, Harris joined the Alameda County district ...
Harris's criminal justice record has been seen as mixed, with critics calling her "tough on crime" despite her calling herself a "progressive prosecutor", citing her reluctance to release prisoners and anti-truancy policies. In her 2009 book, Harris criticized liberals for what she called "biases against law enforcement". [32]
Kamala Harris in 2004 during her stint as the San Francisco District Attorney. MediaNews Group via Getty Images. She was then an assistant district attorney in Alameda from 1990 to 1998 before ...