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In that role, Vice President Harris created a ground-breaking program to provide first-time drug offenders with the opportunity to earn a high school degree and find employment. She was elected District Attorney of San Francisco in 2003. She then served as a managing attorney in the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office and later was chief of the Division on Children and Families for the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office. In 1990, Vice President Harris joined the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office where she specialized in prosecuting child sexual assault cases. Throughout her career, the Vice President has been guided by the words she spoke the first time she stood up in court: Kamala Harris, for the people. Vice President Harris at the Pride Parade in San Francisco, California They have a large blended family that includes their children, Ella and Cole. Growing up, Vice President Harris was surrounded by a diverse community and extended family. They brought her to civil rights demonstrations and introduced role models-ranging from Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall to civil rights leader Constance Baker Motley-whose work motivated her to become a prosecutor. Her parents were activists, instilling Vice President Harris with a strong sense of justice. Gopalan, a breast cancer scientist and pioneer in her own right, received her doctorate the same year Vice President Harris was born. Vice President Harris and her sister, Maya Harris, were inspired by their mother, Shyamala Gopalan. “My mother would look at me and she’d say, ‘Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you are not the last.’” Kamala Harris, January 28, 2019 Vice President Harris with her mother, Shyamala She graduated from Howard University and the University of California, Hastings College of Law. Vice President Harris was born in Oakland, California to parents who emigrated from India and Jamaica.

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. Harris is the Vice President of the United States of America.

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Get Involved Show submenu for “Get Involved””ĭownload Official Portrait Download the Vice President’s Biography.The White House Show submenu for “The White House””.Office of the United States Trade Representative.Office of Science and Technology Policy.Executive Offices Show submenu for “Executive Offices””.Administration Show submenu for “Administration””.In 2021, Kamala Harris was sworn in as the first female vice president. During President Bill Clinton’s administration, she was a permanent member on the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. In 19, she made unsuccessful bids for a U.S. The Republicans carried every state but Minnesota-Mondale’s home state.įerraro left Congress in 1985. On November 6, President Reagan and Vice President George Bush defeated the Mondale-Ferraro ticket in the greatest Republican landslide in U.S. vice president under Jimmy Carter, proved a lackluster choice for the Democratic presidential nominee. His enthusiastic keynote address inaugurated a convention that saw Ferraro become the first woman nominated by a major party for the vice presidency. READ MORE: Geraldine Ferraro's 1984 VP Nomination Was Historic, But Failed to Clinch a Winįour days after Ferraro was named vice presidential candidate, Governor Mario Cuomo of New York opened the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco with an impassioned retort to Republican President Ronald Reagan’s contention that the United States was a “shining city on a hill.” Citing widespread poverty and racial strife, Cuomo derided President Reagan as oblivious to the needs and problems of many of America’s citizens. Ferraro, a daughter of Italian immigrants, had previously gained recognition as a vocal advocate of women’s rights in Congress. Ferraro became the first female vice presidential candidate to represent a major political party. Walter Mondale, the leading Democratic presidential candidate, announces that he has chosen Representative Geraldine Ferraro of New York as his running mate.

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