Kamala Harris Becomes 1st Indian American & 2nd African American Woman Elected to U.S. Senate

Kamala Harris Makes U.S. Senate History

Congrats to Kamala Harris! On election night, the 52-year-old politician became the second black woman and first Indian American to be elected to the U.S. Senate. After winning, she took to Twitter:

Harris is a lawyer, politician, and member of the Democratic Party, who has been the 32nd and current Attorney General of California since 2011. Harris graduated from Howard University and University of California, Hastings College of the Law. She worked as a Deputy District Attorney in Alameda County, California, from 1990 to 1998. She served as Managing Attorney of the Career Criminal Unit in the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, from 1998 to 2000, and as Chief of the Community and Neighborhood Division in the office of San Francisco City Attorney, from 2000 to 2003. In 2003, she was elected District Attorney of San Francisco, defeating incumbent Terence Hallinan. She was re-elected in 2007 and served from 2004 to 2011.

Harris was elected California’s Attorney General in 2010 and was re-elected in 2014. Harris is the first female the first African-American the first Indian-American, and the first Asian-American attorney general in California. She won the primary election for the United States Senate seat in California. She is now the first Indian-American and second African American female to serve in the United States Senate.

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