Kamala Harris was born on October 20,1964 in Oakland, California. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was an Biologist and worked for the treatment of Breast Cancer. She arrived in U.S from India in the year 1958 as a graduate student in nutrition. Her father Donald J. Harris is a professor of Economics and was graduated from UC Berkeley and receiving PhD in economics. +Harris lived in Berkeley along with her younger sister. +After high school, Harris attended Howard University, a historically black University in Washington, DC. In Howard Harris worked as mail room clerk for California senator Alan Gangston chaired the economic society, led the debate team and joined Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. Harris graduated from Howard in 1986 with a degree in Political Science and Economics. +Harris returned to California to attend Law School at the University of California Hastings College of the Law. While at UC Hastings she served as President of its chapter of the Black Law Students association. She graduated with a Juri doctor in 1989 and was admitted to the California a bar in June 1990.
In 1990, Harris worked as Deputy District Attorney in California. In 1994, California Assembly Speaker appointed Harris to the state unemployment insurance appeals board and later to the California Medical Assistant. Commission Harris took six months leave of absence in 1994 from her duties as prosecutor and again joined for same during the year. +In February, 1998 Harris recruited as Assistant District Attorney, there she became the chief of the career criminal division, she supervising five others attorneys where she prosecuted homicide, burglary robbery and sexual assault cases, particularly three strikes cases. Harris campaigned against the measure and Salomon opposed directing media enquiries about property. Harris and reassigned her a De Facto Demotion. Harris filed a complaint against Salomon and quit. +In 2000, Harris took a new job at San Francisco city hall, working for city Attorney Louis Renne. Harris ran the family and children source division representing child abuse and neglect cases. Renne endorsed Harris during her DA campaign.
Harris married to Attorney Douglas Emhoff who was one of his partner in crime at Venable LLP's Los Angeles office, on August 22, 2014, in Santa Barbara California. Harris is a stepmother of Emhoff two children from his previous marriage. On August 2019, Harris and her husband had an estimated net worth of 5.8 million dollars. She is a member of 3rd Baptist Church of San Francisco, a congregation of the American Baptist Church USA. +Harris sister, Maya Harris was a MSNBC political analyst, her brother in law Tony West is general counsel of Uber and a former US department of justice senior officials. Her niece Meena Harris is the founder of the phenomenal women action campaign.
In 2005, National Black Prosecutor Association awarded Harris the Thurgood Marshall award. That year, she was featured along 19 other women in the newspaper report profiling 20 of American's most powerful women in 2006 Harris was elected to the national district. Attorney association's Board of Directors Vice President and appointed to co-chair it's correction and re entry committee. She was also selected to co-chair the California district. Attorney association's sex crimes committee Harris was also selected to serve as a rodel fellow with the Aspen institute along with 24 others elected officials. The same year Howard University awarded Harris it's outstanding Alumini award for extraordinary work in the field of law and public service. In 2008, she was named an Attorney of the time article published later that year also identified her as a women with potential to became president of the US. Harris was identified as a tough fighter.. +In 2010, California's largest legal newspaper designated Harris as one of the top 100 influential people in the world.
Harris has written two non-fiction books and one children's book: +Smart on crime: A career prosecutors plan to make us safer chronicles books- 2009 + + +Superheroes are everywhere penguin young readers group-2019 + + +The truth we hold : An American journey- 2019