Most Popular Women In The World
TRAILBLAZER: “KAMALA HARRIS”
The Vice-President of the United States as of 2021, who reports to President Joe Biden. An American politician and legal practitioner (attorney), born on October 20, 1964. She is on the list of vice presidents as the 49th vice president of the US.
She is an inaugurated female vice president and is ranked highest as a female official in U.S. history, along with she is also known to be the first African-American and first Asian-American vice president.
She is actively handling many positions as Vice president and a member of the Democratic party, earlier she contributed as a U.S. senator from California for almost 4 years (2017-2021) and also made her role as the attorney general of California from 2011-2017.
Early Life and Education
Kamala Harris was born in Oakland, California. Her parents and sister were also living with her. Her father and mother were both very educated and functioned in their professions. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, a Tamil Indian biologist, and her Jamaican American father, Donald J. Harris belonged to Afro-Jamaican ancestry, he was a professor of economics (emeritus) at Stanford University. About her sister, Maya was born after Harris.
At the age of 11 years, she had to face the division of her parents and both the sisters started to live with her mother.
Harris began her education in kindergarten at Thousand Oaks Elementary School and finally completed her schooling at Westmount and High School. In 1986, she graduated from Howard University with a degree in economics and political science.
In 1989, she got her Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law once more.
Harris’s Visionary Career
Yes, we are illustrating and considering her career as visionary, innovative, inspired, and considerable. Harris’s popularity was brought to her because of her diligence in functioning in her professions and career. She entered into her career creation as a deputy district attorney in Oakland. She devoted her 8 years (1990-1998) to this pragmatic position which was very accommodating for people. She executed many criminal cases such as cases of gang violence and other major criminal cases. She was renowned for being tough as she did her all to solve criminal cases.
Her designation to offer as the district attorney (prosecutor for the state in a particular district) for San Francisco. Her enrollment as a district attorney performed until she was elected the attorney general (the chief law officer) for the state of California in 2010. Harris enrolled and performed duties as an attorney, making her the first woman and Black person to hold these positions.
She was nominated for a seat in the U.S. Senate in 2016. During her drive and movements, she had to go for rectifying the policies and the criminal justice system. She also began a movement for expansion to the minimum wage. By nearly 3 million votes, Harries grabbed the Senate seat.
Finally, Harris was selected as Vice presidential candidate for the 2020 presidential election by Joe Biden. When she was the fourth woman to have appeared on a Democratic or Republican presidential ticket. The election was victorious in the favor of Biden and Harris in November. Harris officially became the United States’s vice president on January 20, 2021.
Harris’s Influential popularity
On January 20, 2021, Kamala Harris began serving as vice president of the United States in President Joe Biden’s Democratic administration. Harris was the senator from California from 2017 to 21 before to taking office. She was the second African American woman and the first Indian American to hold the position. Harris served as California’s attorney general from 2011 until 2017.
“My daily challenge to myself is to be part of the solution, to be a joyful warrior in the battle to come”. – Kamala Harris
The above wordings were picked by Kamala Harris herself for her mother marking her as a trailblazer, barrier breaker woman. Her popularity is undeniable and inevitable because of her devotion and contributions she has now become one of the most famous, influential, and authoritative women in the world. Harris, the Vice President of the U.S. is inspiring others to enter into their careers confidently and perform their roles with every ability and capability.
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