Kamala Devi Harris was born on October 20, 1964, in Oakland, California. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was from Tamil Nadu, India. Her father, Donald Harris, is now a Stanford University emeritus professor of economics, emigrated from British Jamaica.
Harris was raised in Berkeley, California. She visited their mother's family in Chennai sometimes. Her parents divorced when she was seven; she visited her father in Palo Alto on weekends. When she was 12, Harris and her sister moved with their mother to Montreal, Canada, where their mother had accepted a research position at Jewish General Hospital and teaching at McGill University.She graduated in Canada in 1981.
At Howard University in Washington, D.C., she double-majored in political science and economics (B.A. 1986). She interned in the office of California senator Alan Cranston. In 1989, Harris earned her Juris Doctor from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. She passed the bar examination and gained admission to the State Bar of California on June 14, 1990.
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