Kamala Harris: “I was the first black woman elected district attorney of San…”

“I was a law Student Then in 1988, when Jesse Jackson decided to run again. I was the first black woman elected district attorney of San Francisco, as the first black woman elected district attorney in the state of California. In 2004, when I created one of the first in the nation initiatives as a prosecutor that was about getting jobs and counseling to those who had been in the criminal justice system.” (06:42–06:51)

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