"She is the daughter of a Tamil mother, Dr. Shyamala Gopalan – a breast cancer specialist who immigrated to the United States from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India in 1960– and a Jamaican American father, Stanford University economics professor Donald Harris. On January 3, 2011, Harris became the first woman, African-American, and Asian American attorney general in California and the first Indian American attorney general in the United States." ~ Jueseppi B.

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