Kamala Harris' Husband, Age, Parents, Lifestyle, Net Worth & Biography

[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 age 59 years Oakland California United States parents Donald J Harris shamala gopal and 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 Willie Brown in 2001 she had a brief dating relationship with talk show host Montel Williams 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 lyns 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 career 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 Merida status there kamla Harris's parents met in 1962 and married in 1963 the Harris family then lived in several college towns in the Upper Midwest orbana Illinois where a sister Maya was born in 1966 Evanston Illinois and Madison Wisconsin the parents holding teaching or research positions by 1970 the marriage had faltered and shamala moved back to California with her two daughters the couple divorced when Kamala was seven a support group of friends of shamala among them African-American intellectuals and rights activists in Oakland and Berkeley influenced the Harris girls critically 5 years later shamala accepted a research position at the McGill University School of Medicine and moved with her daughters to Montreal Quebec Harris graduated from West Mount High School in 1981 Harris attended vanet College in Montreal in 1981 to 82 and then attended at Howard University a historically black University in Washington D.C she graduated in 1986 with a degree in political science and economics Harris then attended the University of California Hastings College of the law 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 Al County California where she was described as an able prosecutor on the way up in 1994 speaker of the California 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 f 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 in 2002 Harris ran for district attorney of San Francisco running a for F campaign and differentiating herself from henen by attacking his performance Harris won the election with 56% of the vote becoming the first person of color elected district attorney of San Francisco she ran unopposed for a second term in 2017 within the first 6 months of taking office Harris cleared 27 of 74 backlogged homicide cases she also pushed for higher bail for criminal defendants involved in gun related crimes arguing that historic ly low bail encouraged Outsiders to commit crimes in San Francisco sfpd officers credited Harris with tightening the loopholes defendants had used in the past during her campaign Harris pledged never to seek the death penalty and kept to this in the cases of a San Francisco Police Department Officer Isaac espanosa who was shot and killed in 2004 and of Edwin Ramos an illegal immigrant and alleged MS13 gang member who was accused of murdering a man and his two sons in 2009 Harris created a hate crimes unit focusing on hate crimes against LGBT children and teens in schools and supported AB 1160 the Gwen AR oo Justice for victims act as district attorney she created an environmental crimes unit in 2005 Harris expressed support for San Francisco's Sanctuary City policy of not inquiring about immigration status in the process of a criminal investigation in 2004 Harris created the San Francisco re-entry division over 6 years the 200 people graduated from the program had a recidivism rate of less than 10% compared to the 53% of California's drug offenders who returned to prison within two years of release in 2006 as part of an initiative to reduce the city's skyrocketing homicide rate Harris led a city-wide effort to combat truancy for atrisk elementary school youth in San Francisco in 2008 declaring chronic truancy a matter of public safety and pointing out that the majority of prison inmates and hom homicide victims or dropouts or habitual truant she issued citations against six parents whose children missed at least 50 days of school the first time San Francisco prosecuted adults for student truancy Harris's office ultimately prosecuted seven parents in 3 years with none jailed by April 2009 1,330 Elementary School students were habitual or chronic truant down 23% from 1,730 in 2008 and from 2517 in 20 7 and 2856 in 2006