Kamala Harris
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Kamala Devi Harris (/ˈkɑːmələ/, KAH-mə-lə; born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and lawyer of the Democratic Party serving as the junior United States Senator from California since 2017. She previously was the 32nd Attorney General of California from 2011 to 2017.

Harris graduated from Howard University and UC Hastings. After working in the San Francisco District Attorney's Office and City Attorney's Office Harris was elected District Attorney of San Francisco. Harris was elected California's Attorney General in 2010 and reelected in 2014.

On November 8, 2016, she defeated Loretta Sanchez in the 2016 Senate election to succeed outgoing Senator Barbara Boxer, becoming California's third female U.S. Senator and the first of Jamaican and Indian descent. During her tenure, she has generally opposed President Donald Trump's policies.

Harris was born on October 20, 1964 in Oakland, California to a Tamil Indian mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris (1938–2009), and a Jamaican father, Donald Harris. Her mother was a prominent breast cancer researcher, who emigrated from Chennai, India, in 1960, and her father a Stanford University economics professor, who emigrated from Jamaica in 1961 for graduate study in economics at University of California, Berkeley. Her name, Kamalā comes from the Sanskrit word Kamala (Lotus Flower) that means "She of the Lotus" another name of Lakshmi, the Hindu Goddess of prosperity whose seat is a lotus flower. She was extremely close to her maternal grandfather, P.V. Gopalan, an Indian diplomat, and as a child she frequently visited her family in Besant Nagar, in Chennai, India. She has one younger sister, Maya, a lawyer and public policy advocate, who married Tony West, a former Associate Attorney General of the United States and current General Counsel at Uber.