Kamala Harris

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kamala Harris
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Oct 20, 1964(1964-10-20)
Age	60
Birthplace	Oakland
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Libra

Kamala Harris Biography

Kamala Harris is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on October 20, 1964 in Oakland, California, United States. Polittician who became the first African-American female and Asian-American to be elected to the position of Attorney General in California in 2011. She was appointed to the U.S. Senate in 2017. She was appointed the running co-chair to Democratic president Politician who became the first female, African- American and Asian-American to hold the office of Attorney General of California in 2011. She began serving in the U.S. Senate in 2017. She was named the running mate on the ticket of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

She was nominated by She was endorsed by Barack Obama to fill the open Senate seat vacated by Barbara Boxer in 2016. to take over the vacant Senate seat that was vacated by Barbara Boxer in the year 2016.

While Harris oversaw more than 1900 convictions for marijuana possession, lawyers working in her office stated that most defendants for low-level possession were never even charged with a crime, consistent with the city and county’s low enforcement priorities. Only 45 people were sentenced to state prison for marijuana trafficking.In 2010, it was reported that San Francisco Police Department crime lab technician Deborah Madden had been taking home samples of cocaine from the lab, possibly tainting evidence for hundreds of pending criminal prosecutions. Judge Anne-Christine Massullo wrote in a scathing decision that Harris’ office had failed to disclose to defense counsel the details of Madden’s personal problems because Harris had not implemented a written policy so that her office could notify defendants about exculpatory evidence, as required by the binding Supreme Court precedent Brady v. Maryland. Harris said she was not copied on any inter-office communications questioning the dependability of Madden’s testimony, but accepted full responsibility for the crime lab’s failures. Harris indicated that red tape over access to confidential police personnel files made it difficult to quickly prepare a proper Brady policy. Harris took the remedial step of dismissing a number of drug-related cases, including many in which convictions had already been obtained, that could have been compromised by SFPD’s technician.

Kamala Devi Harris was born on October 20, 1964 in Oakland, California. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was a Tamil Indian breast-cancer scientist who immigrated from Madras, India, in 1960 to pursue a doctorate in endocrinology at the UC Berkeley. Her mother was from the Besant Nagar neighborhood of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, whose “Gopalan” bloodline can be traced over 1,000 years. Shyamala was described as a “feminist concerned that the women who did her laundry were the victims of domestic violence.” Her father, Donald Harris, is a Stanford University Emeritus Professor of Economics, who emigrated from Jamaica in 1961 for graduate study in economics at UC Berkeley. His academic career includes a Faculty Fellow at Cambridge University, Fulbright Scholar in Brazil and Mexico and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Yale University.

As a child she was a part of with her Stanford professor parents on civil rights protests. She got married to Douglas Emhoff in 2014.

Kamala Harris Net Worth

Kamala Harris is one of the richest Politician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kamala Harris 's net worth $4 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The graduate graduated at Howard University in 1986 with the degree of economics and political science. She was awarded an honorary law diploma from University of California, Hastings College of the Law.

She was the District Attorney for San Francisco, where she created a special Hate Crimes Unit.

In December, Harris traveled to Kabul, Mazar-e Sharif, and Kandahar in Afghanistan with two of her Republican colleagues on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senators Burr and Lankford. Later that month, Harris, along with Republican Senator Tim Scott and Democratic Senator Cory Booker, led the passage by unanimous consent of the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act, legislation that criminalized lynching for the first time in American history. From 1882 to 1986, Congress failed to pass anti-lynching legislation 200 times.

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Who is Kamala Harris Dating?

According to our records, Kamala Harris married to Douglas Emhoff. As of December 1, 2023, Kamala Harris’s is not dating anyone.

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In 1990, Harris was hired as a deputy district attorney in Alameda County, California where she was noted as being “an able prosecutor on the way up.” She specialized in child sexual abuse trials, which she observed were a difficult type of prosecution, given juries are more inclined to accept the word of an adult over the word of a child. During this time, Harris also taught advocacy skills at Stanford and University of San Francisco.

Facts & Trivia

Kamala Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Kamala Harris celebrates birthday on October 20 of every year.

In the early 2000s, the City and County of San Francisco murder rate per capita drastically outpaced the national average. Within the first six months of taking office, Harris cleared 27 of 74 backlogged homicide cases by settling 14 by plea bargain and taking 11 to trial; with 9 convictions and 2 hung juries, she attained an 81% success rate. She took 49 violent crime cases to trial and secured 36 convictions, for an 84% success rate. From 2004 to 2006, Harris achieved an 87% conviction rate for homicides and a 90% conviction rate for all felony gun violations.

Who is older Maya or Kamala?

She and her older sister, Kamala, were raised with beliefs from Baptist and Hindu faiths. At 17, she gave birth to her only child, Meena Harris. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989. That year, she enrolled in Stanford Law School.

What does Kamala Harris name stand for?

Kamala means “ lotus flower ,” a plant holding deep meaning in Indian culture. Harris describes the flower in her memoir as growing underwater, with flowers that rise above the surface, with roots planted firmly in the river’s bottom.

How old is Kamala Harris?

57 years (October 20, 1964)

Who is our Vice President now?

Harris. Kamala D. Harris is the Vice President of the United States of America. She was elected Vice President after a lifetime of public service, having been elected District Attorney of San Francisco, California Attorney General, and United States Senator.

Who is Maya Harris biological father?

Donald Harris