Kamala Harris Net Worth, Career, Biography 2026

About

Born on 20^th Oct 1964, Kamala
Harris is an attorney and American politician. She is a Democratic Party member
who has been in service as California Attorney General from 2011 to 2017. Also,
she is United States Junior Senator of California State. She joined her
senatorial office in Nov 2017. She is among the Democrat candidates pursuing
nomination to contest for presidential seat in 2020 election.

Oakland, California is the birthplace of
Harris. She studied law at Howard University and Majored as a prosecutor in
University of California, Hastings College of Law. From her studies, she
received Howard University Honoree degree and also another from University of
Southern California. During 1990s she worked in the District Attorney’s office
of California. 9 years later, at San Francisco, City Attorney’s office. In 2004
she contested and won the election into becoming the San Francisco District
Attorney.

In 2010 elections for Attorney General of
California, Harris emerged victorious in that election. During her reelection
in 2014, she gained victory by a much wider margin. She went on to contest in
the senatorial election in 2016 and won over Loretta Sanchez in succeeding the Barbara
Boxer an outgoing senator. She, therefore, became the first black woman in the
senatorial seat and the third female senator of U.S. since attaining seat she
has been on the frontline supporting de-scheduling of cannabis by the federal,
Single-payer healthcare, supporting the dream act, the sanctuary cities and
lowering the tax burden on the middle and working classes, instead raising the
taxes on the wealthiest 1% and the large corporations of America.

Early Life

On 20^th Oct 1964, Kamala Harris was
born in Oakland California to form a mother with Indian origin and a father
from Jamaican origin. Shyamala Gopalan, Harris mother, who was Tamil Indian
scientist in breast cancer, emigrated to U.S. in 1960 from Madras, India in
order to study her doctorate degree in endocrinology at the University of
California, Berkeley. While her father on the other end, emigrated from Jamaica
to pursue studies in Economics at University of California, Berkeley. Harris
has a sister whom both they share Sanskrit names that are derived from
mythology of Hindus. This after her mother insisted that it will help in
preservation of their cultural heritage. Harris, a slave owner descendant and
identifies as black and Indian.

While growing up, she and her sister attended
Black Baptist Church where both of her were choir members. Also they attended
Hindu temple due to her mother origin. into the top of Indian Caste, Harris
was born, while her mother from the Besant Nagar, was an upper Brahmin Class,
from the Chennai Tamil Nadu neighborhood. Her mother bloodline has over 1000
years traceback. Harris mother was a feminist who was concerned that women
doing laundry for her were domestic violence victims.

On her childhood, she often went to Chennai to
visit her extended family. She had a diplomat Grandfather (P.V. Gopalan) whom
she was very close to.

Harris was enrolled into kindergarten during
Berkeley’s school on the second year of desegregation busing program. This program
applied busing extensively in order to attempt a racial balance on all the
public school in the city. She was often driven to school by a bus that had 95%
white previously before the program.

At the age of 7 years, her parents divorced
and the custody of Harris and her sister was granted to the mother. After the
parents parted ways, the two sisters went to Palo Alto to visit her father
during weekends. She said that kids in the neighborhood were discouraged from
playing with her since she was black. When Harris turned 12 she moved with
her mother and sister to     Montreal,
Quebec in Canada for a position of research at McGill University’s Jewish
General Hospital and Teaching.

During her teenage period, Harris co-founded
six dancers, dance troupe that performed during fundraising and also at the
Community center. She gained popularity among the students when she was at
Westmount High School.

She had high school graduation in 1981 and
enrolled at Howard University based in Washington D.C. She did a double major
in economics and political science. While at Howard, she joined the debate
team, joined school politics and was elected to the student council of
liberal-arts. Also, she was on demonstrations fighting against apartheid.

Later, she went back to California, where she
enrolled at Hastings College of the Law, a school of California University. And
received Juris Doctor in 1989 from the University, in 1990 she was admitted to
California State Bar to gain more social experience. She believed that the
world is need of a prosecutor with more social awareness. The main reason why
Harris pursued a law enforcement carrier was to be among those who are involved
in final decisions in law.

Career

Alameda County Deputy District Attorney

Harris was employed in California as Alameda
County Deputy District Attorney where she proved her ability to prosecute. As a
prosecutor, she specialized in trials dealing with child abuse, a challenging
choice of career. This is considering the juries are more likely to be the word
of an adult than that of a child. 

According to Alameda District Attorney, Tom
Orloff, “Harris has a good courtroom
presence, a high success rate. She is a genuinely good person and her social
values will work well in San Francisco.”

During the same period, Harris was engaging in teaching Advocacy skills at
the University of San Francisco and Stanford.

District
Attorney Assistance

She was appointed to serve as the assistant district attorney in Feb
1998 by Terence Hallinan, the District Attorney of San Francisco. She then
became the Career Criminal Division chief, doing supervision over other five
Attorneys. She also prosecuted criminal cases such as Burglary, Homicide,
Sexual assault, and Robbery. And in particular, the three strike cases. As part
of her professional qualities, she was noted for being “an excellent mentor”.
She was also active in the 1999 Hallinan’s reelection even though she did quit
eight months later.

City Attorney

Harris accepted a new job at the City Hall of San Francisco in Aug 2000.
She was working for Louise Renne the elected City Attorney. She was hired to
take the vacant place left by Katherine Feinstein when she went to become the
Superior Court Judge after her appointment. Harris, therefore, ran the Serve
Division of Family and Children, which was representing Domestic violence,
Child abuse, Neglect cases, Building code enforcement and matters of public
health.  According Louise Rennes, City
attorney, opinion of Harris, “She will
make the best DA this city has seen in years.”

District Attorney Campaign (2003)

After the
clash, while working at Terence Hallinan’s office, Harris was very angry that
she chose to run for the same office of Hallinan during his reelection in 2003.
She started a methodological gathering of support by attending events on
politics, other people campaign volunteering and gaining membership on the
boards of nonprofits.

On the mid of
2002, the previous year to elections, she called her friend stepfather, Mark
Buell. She explained to him her intention of contesting for the seat of
District Attorney, against her former boss and a two-term incumbent. Buell
wife, Susie Tompkins was a Democratic megadonor. Despite having doubts at
first, Buel offered to help Harris as her finance chair. They prepared campaign
committee that will see through that Harris gets the position.

Harris entered
the election race in 2003, running against her former boss and the two-term
incumbent. Despite the challenges and the resurgence of her past being used
against her in the election race, she emerged a winner with 56.33%. This made
her the first woman to be in charge of the San Francisco Office of District
Attorney.

California Attorney General

2010 election

Harris
announced her bid for California Attorney General on 12^th Nov 2008.
She was endorsed by Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, Barbara Boxer, and Dianne
Feinstein during the nominations of Democratic Party primary. She emerged the
winner on 8^th June 2010 by securing 33.6 % of the total votes which
were cast. Her competitors Alberto Torrico received 15.6 and Chris Kelly
received 15.5%.

She, therefore,
ran against Steve Cooley, District Attorney of Los Angeles County. On the night
of elections, Cooley prematurely announced victor, but there were still more
votes uncounted. On the 3^rd of January 2010, Harris won by over 55,
000 votes, and she became the first female with Jamaica and India ancestry to
become the California Attorney General.

2014 election

On February
2014, Harris announced her bid to run for reelection and also filled her
paperwork. According to Debra Bowen, the state secretary of California, all the
campaign finance of Harris had been gathered on the previous year. She was
endorsed for reelection by Los Angeles Daily News, The Sacramento bee, and Los
Angeles Times. During the election time on 4^th Nov 2014, she won the
seat against Ronald Gold from the Republican.

U.S. Senate

Election, 2016

After serving
for 24 years as the United States Junior Senator, from California, Barbara
Boxer announced her retirement intentions from the seat during her end of the term.
Harris became the first of the candidates to announce her bid for the seat.
According to media outlets, she would pursue the seat on a similar day that Lieutenant
Governor of California, Gavin Newsom declared he won’t succeed boxer. Gavin is
reportedly a close ally of Harris in politics. Officially, she launched her
campaign on 13^th January 2015.

Harris went on
and participated on June 2016 primary elections, from which the top two
candidates coming from any political party would face each other on the general
election. After succeeding in the primaries, Harris was up against a fellow Democrat
and a congresswoman, Loretta Sanchez in the main election. This was also the
first time that a Republican failed to appear in the general election since the
direct election of the senators in California began in 1914.

In the general
elections in Nov 2016, Harris worn by 60% of the total votes cast, she managed
to dominate all counties except four. After attaining the victory, the
immigrants were promised protection from President Donald Trump policies.

Presidential Campaign 2020

Harris is under
consideration as the potential frontrunner and top contender for the nomination
of Democratic President. She has been quoted before on June 2018 as “not ruling
it out”. As compared to other senators, she was noted to be spending more on
the advertisements on Facebook. Another indication of a probable ran.

Harris then
officially declared her bid on 21^st Jan 2019. She expressed her
intentions for U.S. presidential candidacy in the presidential election of
2020. Within 24 hours of announcement, she tied Bernie Sanders record on
donations in 2016.  And this was after
the announcement.

During her
official launch, there was over 20, 000 attendance by people as per the
estimate of the police. The event was organized in Oakland California, her own
town. This happened on the 27^th of Jan, 2019. After the Presidential
Debate of the Democratic Party, her pols rose in the range of 6 to 9 points.

Net Worth

At 12, Harris and her parents moved to
Montreal due to her mother’s job. When she was in high school, she had a target
of being a lawyer, thus selected Howard University as the high learning
institution for her undergraduate degree.

While at UC Hastings College she narrowed down
her course in order to become a prosecutor. She did graduation in 1989, and she
got a job at the office of district attorney in Alameda County. She worked
there for 9 years after which she moved across the bay for a job at the office
of district attorney in San Francisco.

She purchased a condo at that time for roughly
$300, 000, which was in SoMa Neighborhood at the city. And this has turned out
to be a smart move, as the Condo is currently worth roughly $900, 000. Harris
then pursued a public office in 2003, where she got elected as San Francisco
District attorney.

During that year, she earned over $140, 000.
As per her tax return records, she was eligible for a pension from the San
Francisco city due to her job. This has a worth of $250, 000 minimum amounts
today. During 2010, she pursued the Attorney general office of California,
which won, becoming the first woman who is black to hold that office.

As an attorney general, she was required to
file her financial disclosure by the state. It required Harris to list some of
the assets she owned but not all. Among the assets she listed in the document
were $100 “gift box” and mug that she received from Stewart Resnick and Lynda,
the California Billionaires’.

She received basketball tickets worth $450 in
2016, from Doc Rivers, the head coach of Los Angeles Clippers. She was small
perks gifts but way back when Harris started as a District Attorney, she earned
a roughly similar amount of money.

In 2014, Harris got married to Douglas Emhoff,
a fellow attorney. This really bolstered her financial position. The two were
introduced to each other by Chrisette Hudlin, Harris friend, who was also a
public relations consultant. This was in 2013, a year before they got married.

During that time, Emhoff was divorced and had
two children. He had a job as Venable firm Entertainment litigator in Los
Angeles. He had acquired Whitwell Jacoby Emhoff, a practice he co-founded 7
years before. 

In the course of last 5 years, the couples
have earned roughly $8.2 million, a big sum of it coming from Emhoff’s job in
DLA Piper and Venable firm. The couples filed their tax jointly for the first
time in 2014. At that time, they listed $1.3 million as their combined
earnings. This was up from Harris $129,000 earnings she had made personally in
the year before.

Due to the announcement of her candidature in
2015 elections running for Senate, a more detailed financial disclosure was
made to the federal government by Harris. This time it was inclusive of the
holdings she owned with her husband. This was worth between $1.5 and $4
million. After Harris announcements to run for senate her husband dropped a
couple of stockholdings which were conflict-prone. They included companies such
as Dominion Resources, Caterpillar, Medtronic, and             Monsanto.

As per today, the worth of their three homes
in Washington D.C., San Francisco and Los Angeles are jointly more than any
other wealth she owns. The homes have an estimated worth of $2.5 million, and
this is after accounting all the debts. In the previous year, the couples
earning was above $2 million.

Due to the incline of Harris profile, her
personal earnings have also increased. In one of her recent disclosure of
finances, there was over $550, 000 which she got from as advance payments from the
publisher of her books, The Penguin Random House. One of her books “The Truth
We Hold” which was launched in January had over 50, 000 copies sold. This was
as per the NBD Bookscan tracking firm for books sales.

Also, she published the other two books, Smart
on Crime: “A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer” This book highlights
her views about the justice system of criminals. Another publication is “Superheroes
Are Everywhere” children’s picture book. But their sales were not even close to
“The Truths We Hold” book.

Personal Life

Harris is wife to Douglas Emhoff, a California
Attorney; they got married in 22^nd Aug 2014, a year later after they
first met. At that time, the two were introduced to each other by Chrisette
Hudlin, Harris friend, who was a public relations consultant. This was in 2013,
a year before they got married.

During that time, Emhoff was divorced and had
two children. He had a job as Venable firm Entertainment litigator in Los
Angeles. He had acquired Whitwell Jacoby Emhoff, a practice he co-founded 7
years before.

Harris has two stepchildren, a sister, Maya
Harris, who is a political analyst at MSNBC, and a brother-in-law, Tony West,
who works like the Uber general counsel. Tony is also a former senior official
at United States Department of Justice. 

Harris dated Willie Brown from 1994 – 1995.
Brown was the speaker of the California State Assembly, who also gave her
appointments while she was dating at the California Medical Assistance
Commission and the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board. During the time Brown
and Harris were dating, it was noted that she had a steady influence on him, and
he gifted her 1994 BMW, that she later traded in for a 1997 BMW model, a
vehicle that she still owned in 2003. After the 1995 victory of mayor seat by
Brown, Harris was referred to as “the first lady in waiting” by the press.
However, when Brown was elected as the San Francisco Mayor, she terminated the
relationship. But, despite that, she still credits Brown for giving her
connection to the people with influence who came in handy in launching her
career. And she currently refers to him as a friend and mentor.

After her studies, she received Howard
University Honoree degree and also another from the University of Southern
California. In defense of a commitment in the representation of ordinary
supporters apart from the wealthy donors, she identifies as Baptist.

Kamala Harris Quotes

Abortion

• Endorsed Endorsed
  by EMILY’s list for pro-choice Democratic women. – Nov 2016
• Keep federal
  funding for family planning clinics – Mar
  2017
• Opposes parental notification for abortions by minors – Nov 2016
• Supports public funding for abortion services – Nov 2016
• Access safe,
  legal abortion without restrictions – Mar
  2017
• Ban anti-abortion
  limitations on abortion services – Mar
  2017
• Rated 100%
  by NARAL, indicating a pro-choice
  voting record – Dec 2010
• Don’t limit
  abortions to the first 20 weeks of pregnancy. – Jan 2019

Budget & Economy

• $20B for
  struggling homeowners during mortgage crisis – Apr 2015
• Prosecuted fewer
  foreclosure fraud cases than smaller states – Aug 2017
• Economic numbers
  conceal more than reveal – Jun 2019

Civil Rights

• Maintain LGBT
  health info on federal websites – Apr 2018
• Eliminate the “gay
  panic” tactic for criminal defendants – Aug 2014
• Ensure marriage
  equality for all Californians – Apr 2015
• Fight for equal
  rights for all – Apr 2015
• Judicial
  appointments should reject separate but equal – Apr 2018
• Calling it
  “identity politics” marginalizes our issues – Aug 2018
• Let transgender
  people access the bathroom of their choice – Jan 2019
• Reparations for
  blacks should include HBCU and reforms – Feb 2019
• Rename Columbus
  Day as Indigenous Peoples’ Day – Feb 2019
• Reparations mean
  real investments in black communities – Feb 2019

Corporations

• New fees on banks
  and financial institutions – Jan 2019
• Facebook is like
  a utility; needs to be regulated – May 2019
• Why haven’t we
  asked how to pay for tax cuts to the top 1%? – Jun 2019
• A new tax on
  banks with over $50 billion in assets – Jul 2019
• Reverse the 2017
  corporate income tax cut – Jul 2019

Crimes

• Punish violent
  criminals, but understand she also need help – Jan 2019
• Ex-felons
  re-enter society, instead of the broken justice system – Feb 2019
• Federal and state
  moratorium on death penalty – Mar 2019
• Private prisons
  are about profit, not dealing with crime – Apr 2019
• Have a
  conversation on whether prisoners should vote – Apr 2019
• Moratorium on
  death penalty; but defended it as AG – May 2019

Drugs

• Back on Track: re-entry
  instead of incarceration for drugs – Apr 2015
• Recognize the war
  on drugs was a failure – May 2015
• Opioid crisis
  requires emergency mobilization – Jan 2019
• Dismantle War on
  Drugs; start with marijuana legalization – Jan 2019
• Legalize
  marijuana: it gives a lot of people joy – Feb 2019

Education

• Took on
  Corinthian College, a for-profit college scam – Jan 2019
• As a child, bused
  to desegregated school with mixed races – Jan 2019
• Free tuition at
  four-year public colleges – Jan 2019
• Federal money to
  subsidize teach pay raises – Mar 2019
• Change rules on
  student debt: reduce interest, income-based – Apr 2019
• Boost average
  teacher pay by $13,500 – May 2019

Energy & Oils

• Climate change is
  a national security threat to America – Jan 2019
• Don’t withdraw
  from the Paris climate accord – 2019
• Climate change
  important, but not only issue – Jan 201
• Restore Clean
  Power Plan and Clean Car Standards – Apr 2019
• Green New Deal
  sets agenda for dealing with climate change – Apr 2019
• Climate crisis
  represents an existential threat to our species – Jun 2019

Environment

• Fight to protect
  our coast – Apr 2015
• Prosecuted
  polluters for illegal dumping and air pollution – Aug 2017
• 100% lifetime
  score from the League of Conservation Voters – Jan 2019
• Develop new
  nuclear technologies – Jul 2019

Families & Children

• Served as an attorney
  in Division on Children and Families – Apr 2015
• Punish parents of
  chronically truant kids – Aug 2017
• 2004: Performed
  same-sex marriage despite state ban – Jan 2019
• Shut down
  brothels masquerading as massage parlors – Jan 2019
• Sanctuary for
  prostituted youth so they can escape pimps – Jan 2019
• Supports broad
  paid family and medical leave plans – Jul 2019

Foreign Policies

• Two-state
  solution despite Israeli settlements on West Bank – Jan 2017
• The way to keep
  us safe is NOT to keep outsiders out – Nov 2015
• I value the
  importance of diplomacy; I value relationships – Mar 2019
• The U.S. is stronger
  when working with allies – May 2019
• We need to get
  back into Iran nuclear deal – Jun 2019
• Trump embracing
  Korean & Russian dictators is a threat – Jun 2019

Free Trade

• TPP doesn’t offer
  sufficient worker protections – May 2016
• Consumers hurt by
  trade wars, while corporations benefit – Feb 2019
• Trade agreements
  should address climate change – May 2019
• Don’t use tariffs
  to pressure countries – Jul 2019
• Demand changes to
  post-NAFTA agreement USMCA – Jul 2019

Government Reforms

• Automatic voter
  registration for all citizens – Nov 2018
• Statehood for the
  District of Columbia – Feb 2018
• Mandate paper
  ballots – Jul 2019
• Discuss
  eliminating the Electoral College – Jul 2019

Gun Control

• We cannot
  tolerate society with our babies being slaughtered – Feb 2018
• No reason we have
  assault weapons in civil society – Jan 2019
• If Congress won’t
  pass gun laws, do it by executive action – Apr 2019
• If Congress won’t
  act on guns, I will, by executive action – May 2019
• Executive action
  on gun control if Congress won’t do it – Jun 2019

Health care

• We pay more for
  prescriptions than abroad: they negotiate – Jan 2019
• End private
  health insurance with Medicare for All – Jan 2019
• Make healthcare
  fundamental right, not a privilege for wealthy – Feb 2019
• Private insurance
  not victims under single-payer – Apr 2019
• Supports Medicare
  for All, even undocumented aliens – May 2019
• $5000 deductible
  demonstrates the flaws of the for-profit system – Jun 2019
• Separate
  employment from healthcare, but not illegal – Jul 2019
• Medicare-for-All
  with 10-year transition and private option – Jul 2019

Homeland security

• Exempt Veterans
  Affairs from federal hiring freeze – Jan 2017
• Champion a robust
  VA for our Veterans – Aug 2016
• Domestic
  terrorism as national security priority – Apr 2017
• Slash the defense
  budget – Jul 2019

Immigration

• Welcome refugees and immigrants, instead of a
  border wall – Feb 2019
• 2008: Supported SF policy reported arrested
  juveniles to ICE – Feb 2019
• I disagreed with Obama on Secure Communities
  deportations – Jun 2019

Jobs

• Raise the federal
  minimum wage to $15/hour – Jul 2019

Principles & Values

• FactCheck:
  Constitutionally eligible to run for the presidency – Jan 2019
• A president who
  leads with dignity, honesty, truth – Jun 2019
• Trump should be
  prosecuted for obstruction of justice – Jul 2019

Social security

• Oppose
  entitlement cuts; strengthen these safety nets – Aug 2016

Tax reforms

• LIFT Act: $500
  monthly tax credit for the eligible middle class – Jan 2019
• A monthly tax
  credit would provide base income – Apr 2019
• Tax credits for
  middle class & working families – May 2019

Technology

• Smartphone videos
  force police brutality to be seen – Jan 2019
• Update water
  infrastructure based on the Israeli model – Jan 2019         
• Improve
  transportation infrastructure in rural communities – Mar 2019

War & Peace

• Time for a
  political solution in Afghanistan – Jan 2019
• Ok with Israeli
  settlements in Palestinian territory – Mar 2019
• Bring the troops
  home from post-9-11 wars – Jul 2019

Welfare & Poverty

• LIFT Act and Rent
  Relief: $42 billion to people in poverty – Jan 2019
• Subsidies for
  Affordable Housing renters and homeowners – Jul 2019
• Massively expand
  the EITC (Earned Income Tax Credit) – Jul 2019

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Kamala Harris’s net worth in 2026?

Kamala Harris’s net worth is estimated at $8.2 million as of 2026.

What is Kamala Harris doing now?

As of 2026, Kamala Harris remains professionally active.

How did Kamala Harris build their fortune?

Kamala Harris built their $8.2 million fortune through consistent career work over many years.