In Pics | Who is Kamala Harris? Everything you need to know about the US Democrat VP pick

SUMMARY

With Senator Kamala Harris becoming the first Black woman and the first Asian American woman to be chosen as a major party’s vice-presidential candidate here is a glimpse of her life so far.

By Pradeep Suresh Aug 12, 2020 1:43:10 PM IST (Updated)

Kamala Harris was born in Oakland, California on October 20, 1964, to her Indian origin mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, a cancer researcher and Jamaican origin father, Donald Harris, an economist. (Kamala Harris campaign via AP)

She majored in political science and economics from Howard University, the prestigious Black college in Washington D.C. after briefly moving to Canada. (Kamala Harris campaign via AP)

Harris joined the Alameda County prosecutor’s office in Oakland as an assistant district attorney focusing on sex crimes in 1990 after passing the bar. (REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File Photo)

Was appointed to the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and the Medical Assistance Commission in 1994 by state assembly speaker Willie Brown, who she was then dating.

Harris cracked down on teenage prostitution after being recruited to the San Francisco District Attorney’s office. In 2003, sheran for district attorneyin San Franciscoand became California's first district attorney of colour.(AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz)

She married Doug Emhoff, a corporate lawyer in Los Angeles, in 2014.

Shewon her US Senate race in 2016, defeating fellow Democrat Loretta Sanchez. Her fame rose across the country after she questioned the then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions on the Russia investigation a year later. (Kamala Harris campaign via AP)

Though she campaigned for presidential nomination last year she ended it amid low poll numbers and tensions within her staff. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Former Vice President and Democratic candidate for the 2020 presidential elections Joe Biden announced her as his pick for Vice President. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)