“Ready to serve,” tweeted Kamala Harris after becoming the first female Vice-President of the United States of America on Wednesday.
Kamala Harris took oath as the 49th Vice-President of the United States. She is also the first Black, Indian-origin woman to hold the office.
She was sworn in by Justice Sonia Sotomayor amid heightened security concerns following an attack on the US Capitol by pro-Trump supporters earlier this month.
The US Vice-President was sworn in on two Bibles – one that belonged to America’s first African American Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall and second that belonged to close family friend named Regina Shelton.
Before the ceremony, she posted posted a video on her social media handles thanking all the women “who are most responsible for my presence here.”
The video is a montage of photos of several women, begins with Harris talking about her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris. She says that her mother “is always in our hearts.”
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“When she came here from India at the age of 19, she maybe didn’t quite imagine this moment. But she believed so deeply in an America where a moment like this is possible,” she says in the video. The video ended by saying that she “stands on their shoulders.”
