Pursuing Law Back Home

After spending years away from her birthplace, Harris returned to California to study law. She went to the UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco and lived with her sister and niece there. The law student even helped Maya potty train her Meena while balancing the “brutal stuff” she dealt with in school.

Luckily, all her hard work paid off. She eventually passed the bar and began her career in 1990 with a job at the Alameda County prosecutor’s office. At the time, she worked as a deputy district attorney and focused on crimes related to indecent assault.