Feature: Vice President Kamala Harris

Kamala D. Harris is the first woman, Black and Asian American to become vice president. Harris made history the day she was sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Vice President Harris was born on Oct. 20, 1964 in California. Her father Donald Harris was as renowned economics professor at Stanford an her mother Shyamala Gopalan Harris was a lead cancer researcher.

She studied at Howard University in 1981, majoring in political science and economics, then attended the University of California studying law.

After graduating, Harris started her career as the deputy district attorney in Alameda County in San Francisco’s specialized in prosecuting child sexual assaults cases.

Aside from that, Harris married her husband Douglas Emhoff in 2014 who has two adult children named Cole and Ella.

She was the first Black woman to be elected district attorney of San Francisco and served from 2004 to 2010.

She was also a U.S. senator representing California starting in 2016, serving on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Before becoming the 46 president of the United States, for months President Joe Biden had been publicly mulling over who would be his potential vice-presidential picks.

Joe Biden said he wanted someone with whom he had chemistry. Someone he could trust.

His choice as Harris was in fact one of President Joe Biden’s biggest opponents on the debate stage. She was one of the candidates for the nomination who was more forceful in the attacks on Biden during the primary contest. Now she is his vice president.

Jan. 20, 2021 at 8:20 p.m. Harris was sworn in as vice president of the United States shattering barriers as the first woman to hold a nationally elected office.

“My mother had a saying: ‘Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.’” - Vice President Kamala Harris.