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 the first female vice president , and the most powerful female official in U.S. history, as also the first African American and first Asian American vice president. As a part of the Democratic Party, she previously was the attorney general of California from 2011 until 2017 and as a United States senator representing California between 2017 and 2021. Harris was born in Oakland and attended Howard University, University of California, Hastings College of the Law. After starting her career as an Alameda County District Attorney, Harris was recruited to San Francisco District Attorney's Office. Then she was appointed the City Attorney of San Francisco. In 2003, she was elected district attorney for San Francisco. She was appointed Attorney General of California in 2010 and re-elected in 2014. Harris was the United States junior senator from California, from 2017 to 2021. Harris beat Loretta Santiago in the 2016 Senate election and became the second African American woman to serve in the Congress, and the first South Asian American American to do so in the United States Senate. Harris was a senator and was a vocal advocate for reforms to healthcare and federal cannabis de-scheduling. She also advocated for a pathway to citizenship for immigrants without a legal status and the DREAM Act, a ban against assault weapons and progressive tax reform. Her name is well-known due to her direct questioning of Trump government officials in Senate hearings.