At a glance: Kamala Harris
- Share via
Party: Democrat
Occupation: District attorney, city and county of San Francisco
Age: 46 on Wednesday, born in Oakland
Residence: San Francisco
Personal: Single
Education: Bachelor’s degree, Howard University, 1986; JD, Hastings College of the Law, University of California, 1990
Career Highlights: district attorney, city and county of San Francisco, 2004 to present; chief, Community and Neighborhood Division, San Francisco city attorney’s office, 2000-2003; attorney, career criminal unit, San Francisco district attorney’s office, 1998-2000; deputy district attorney, Alameda County district attorney’s office, 1990-1998
Platform: Protect environment and support greenhouse gas regulation; defend federal healthcare reforms; defend marriage equality in California and nationwide; prosecute financial crimes, including mortgage fraud; fight violent crime, identity theft, crimes against children
Campaign website: kamalaharris.org
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
About 2 in 3 fire survivors are still displaced and, as coverage for temporary housing disappears, that number could get increase.
In 2012, the judge presiding over Orange County’s worst mass-shooter case gave a seemingly simple order. He told the Sheriff’s Department to reveal information about a mysterious jailhouse informant.
Modern LA earned its first smoggy nickname 450 years ago, as the “bay of smokes.” At the La Brea tar pits, we take a short walk through a long history with curator Regan Dunn, who explains how and why the first Angelenos would have set fires that filled the broad bowl of LA and foretold the curse of smog.
