website governor predecessor successor birth_name birth_place religion party office birth_date term_start spouse image article_title term_end name alma_mater
-lsb- http://ag.ca.gov government website -rsb- jerry brown jerry brown terence hallinan george gascón kamala devi harris oakland , california , u.s. baptist democratic 32nd francisco attorney general of california district attorney of san 20 october 1964 january 3 , 2011 january 1 , 2004 douglas emhoff august 22 , 2014 kamala harris official attorney general photo.jpg kamala harris
 january 3 , 2011 kamala harris howard university uc hastings college of law
kamala harris

kamala devi harris -lrb- ; born october 20 , 1964 -rrb- is an american attorney , 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 , then 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 attorney general in 2010 and re-elected in 2014 .
harris is the first female , the first african-american , and the first asian-american attorney general in california .
she is running for the united states senate seat being vacated by democrat barbara boxer in the 2016 election .
