Kamala Harris

 Kamala Devi Harris is an American politician from the United States. Born on October 20, 1964, she is the 49th Vice President of the United States. She is also the first female vice-president and highest-ranking female official of U.S. History, as being the first African American and second Asian American vice president. As a member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as attorney general of California from 2011 until 2017 and also as the state's attorney general from 2011 to 2017 and as a United States senator representing California from 2017 to 2021. Harris was born and raised in Oakland, California. After starting her career as an Alameda County District Attorney, Harris was hired to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office. In the following years, she was the City Attorney of San Francisco. In 2003, she was elected district attorney for San Francisco. Harris was elected Attorney General of California in 2010. In 2014, she was elected to a second term. Harris was the United States junior senator from California, from 2017 to 2021. Harris defeated Loretta Sanchez to become the 2nd African American woman senator and the first South Asian American ever to be elected to the United States Senate. She was a senator , and advocated for healthcare reform as well as federal cannabis de-scheduling an opportunity to become a citizen for undocumented immigrant immigrants, the DREAM Act, a ban against assault weapons as well as progressive tax reform. She earned national attention due to her sharp questions of Trump administration officials in Senate hearings, which included Trump's second Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who was accused of assault on a woman.