PHOTOS: Joe Biden named Sen. Harris as his running mate on Tuesday, making history by selecting the first Black woman to compete on a major party’ s presidential ticket.
The child of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, Harris has said she was inspired to attend law school after joining civil rights protests with her parents.Harris meets with supporters as she campaigns for district attorney in San Francisco in 2003.
Harris won her first election in 2003 when she became San Francisco’s district attorney. In that role, she created a reentry program for low-level drug offenders and cracked down on student truancy.San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris, Mayor Gavin Newsom, left, and Rev. Cecil Williams help lead a march celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in San Francisco on Jan. 19, 2004.California Attorney General Kamala Harris speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.
Harris was elected California’s attorney general in 2010, the first woman and Black person to hold the job, and focused on issues including the foreclosure crisis. She declined to defend the state’s Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage and was later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.President Barack Obama walks with California Attorney General Kamala Harris and California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom after arriving at San Francisco International Airport on April 4, 2012.
On Tuesday, Obama praised his former vice president for selecting Harris as his running mate, saying, “Joe Biden nailed this decision.”Senate Select Committee on Intelligence member Kamala Harris arrives for a closed-door meeting in in 2017. After being elected to the Senate in 2016, Harris quickly gained attention for her assertive questioning of Trump administration officials during congressional hearings.Harris speaks with an aid as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg appears before a Senate hearing about privacy and election meddling in 2018.Senate Judiciary Committee members, behind from left, Cory Booker, Harris, and Richard Blumenthal talk as Sen.
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