[Music] kamla Harris is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th and current Vice President of the United States since 2021 serving with President Joe Biden born October 20th 1964 aged 59 years Oakland California United States parents shiam gopal and Harris Donald J Harris spouse Douglas mhof M 2014 party Democratic Party education UC La San Francisco 1986 to 1989 Howard University 1986 West Mount High School 1981 nationality American height 1.63 M personal life in the 1990s Harris dated then speaker of the California Assembly Wily Brown in 2001 she had a brief dating relationship with talk show host Montel William Willams Harris met her future husband attorney Doug mhof through a mutual friend who set them up on a blind date in 2013 mhof who was born in a Jewish family was an entertainment lawyer who became partner in charge at benal llp's Los Angeles Office Harrison mhof married on August 22nd 2014 in Santa Barbara California Harris is stepmother to mof's two children Cole and Ella from his previous marriage to the film producer Kirsten mhof as of August 2024 Harris and her husband had an estimated net worth of $8 million Harris is a Baptist holding membership of the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco a Congregation of the American Baptist Churches USA she is a member of the links an invitation only social and service organization of prominent black American women Harris's sister Maya is a lawyer and MSNBC political analyst her brother-in-law Tony West is General Council of uber and a former United States Department of Justice senior official her niece Mina is the founder of the phenomenal women action campaign and former head of strategy and Leadership at Uber early life and education kamla Debbie Harris was born in Oakland California on October 20th 1964 her mother shamala goalen was a biologist who arrived in the United States from India in 1958 to enroll in graduate school in endocrinology at the University of California Berkeley a research career of over 40 years followed during which her work on the progesterone receptor Gene led to advances in breast cancer research Harris's father Donald J Harris arrived in the US from Jamaica in 1961 also enrolling in UC Berkeley and specializing in development economics the first black scholar to be granted tenure at the department of economics in Stanford University he now has a merit of status there kamla Harris's parents met in 1962 and married in 1963 the Harris family lived in Berkeley California until they moved in 1966 around kamla's second birthday they lived for a few years in college towns in the midwest where her parents held teaching or research positions Urbana Illinois where her sister Maya was born in 1966 Evanston Illinois and Madison Wisconsin by 1970 the marriage had faltered and shamala moved back to California with her two daughters the couple divorced when Kamala was seven in 1972 Donald Harris accepted a position at Stanford University kamla and Maya spent weekends at their father's house in Palo elto and lived at their mother's house in Berkeley during the week Sho was friends with African-American intellectuals and activists in Oakland and Berkeley in 1976 shamala accepted a research position at the McGill University School of Med medicine and moved with her daughters to Montreal Quebec Harris graduated from West Mount High School in Montreal in 1981 Harris attended vanet College in Montreal in 1981 to 82 and then attended Howard University a historically black University in Washington DC at Howard she became a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha One of the divine nine historically black sororities she graduated in 1986 with a degree in political science and economics harrris then attended the University of California Hastings College of the law in San Francisco where she served as president of its chapter of the Black Law Students Association she graduated with a jurist doctor in 1989 early career in 1990 Harris was hired as a deputy district attorney in Alam County California where she was described as an able prosecutor on the way up in 1994 speaker of the californ assembly Willie Brown who was then dating Harris appointed her to the state unemployment insurance appeals board and later to the California medical assistance Commission in February 1998 San Francisco district attorney Terrence henan recruited Harris as an assistant district attorney there she became the chief of the career Criminal Division supervising five other attorneys where she prosecuted homicide burglary robbery and sexual assault cases particularly three strikes cases in August 2000 Harris took a job at San Francisco City Hall working for City attorney Lis Ren Harris ran the family and children services division representing child abuse and neglect cases Ren endorsed Harris during her DA campaign