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Kamala Harris
Candidate for Attorney General
State Executive Branch

Kamala D. Harris, candidate for Attorney General (State Executive Branch), is the District Attorney of San Francisco. A veteran prosecutor, Kamala has dedicated her outstanding legal talents to prosecuting violent crime, combating the sexual exploitation of children and working creatively to improve the quality of life in our communities.

As Deputy District Attorney in Alameda County from 1990 to 1998, Kamala prosecuted hundreds of serious and violent felonies, including homicide, rape and child sexual assault cases. Before being recruited to join the City Attorney’s office, Kamala was the Managing Attorney of the Career Criminal Unit of the San Francisco District Attorney’s office.

Among her many community activities, Kamala is Co-Chair of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights; President of the Board of Directors of Partners Ending Domestic Abuse; elected member of the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Bar Association; and founder of an SF Museum of Modern Art mentoring program which has served hundreds of young people from the inner city.

Kamala was born in Oakland and raised in Berkeley. Her parents, both professors, were active in the Civil Rights Movement and instilled in Kamala a strong commitment to justice and public service. That commitment led Kamala to Howard University, America’s oldest black university, and then to Hastings College of the Law. Kamala has been recognized many times for the excellence of her work, but most recently, she earned an award from the County Counsel Association of California for her work granting gay couples equal rights in child adoption cases.