WASHINGTON — As Vice President Kamala Harris eyes being the Democratic nominee for president, people are seeking answers on where she went to school and those related to her political career.
Where did Harris go to school?
Harris attended undergraduate school at Howard University, a historically Black College and University (HBCU), in Washington, D.C., where she studied political science and economics and graduated in 1986.
There, she joined the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the first intercollegiate historically African American sorority first founded at Howard.
Harris attended the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco and graduated with a Juris Doctor in 1989. She was later admitted to the California Bar in June 1990.
What offices did Harris hold?
In 1990, Harris joined the Alameda County District Attorney's Office, where she specialized in prosecuting child sexual assault cases. She worked there until 1998 as a prosecutor and Deputy District Attorney, where she also prosecuted cases for homicide and robbery.
In 1998, Harris was named managing attorney of the Career Criminal Unit of the San Francisco District Attorney's Office. She prosecuted three strike cases and serial felony offenders. After, she served as the head of the San Francisco City Attorney's Division on Families and Children.
Harris was then elected District Attorney of San Francisco in 2004 and served two terms until 2010. She was the first woman District Attorney in San Francisco's history and the first African American woman and South Asian American woman in California to hold office.
She was then elected Attorney General of California from 2011 to 2017, where she became the first female, Black and South Asian attorney general in the state's history.
Harris was elected into a Senate position in 2016, where she held office until becoming the vice president in 2021.