Who is Kamala Harris?

Kamala Devi Harris, born October 20, 1964, is an attorney and United States senator. She’s a long-time Democrat.

Harris has been a junior senator in California since 2017. Prior to that position she was the 32nd Attorney General of California from 2011 to 2017.

She’s the first US Senator of Jamaican or Indian descent.

She is a graduate of Howard University and Hastings College of the Law at the University of California.

Harris is married to California lawyer Douglas Emhoff. They’ve been married since August 2014.

She has two stepchildren. One is college aged, while the other is in high school.