Ethan Miller/Getty Images US Sen. Kamala Harris speaks during an economic forum in Las Vegas in April 2019. In photos: Vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris

Ethan Miller/Getty Images US Sen. Kamala Harris speaks during an economic forum in Las Vegas in April 2019.

US Sen. Kamala Harris is officially the Democratic Party's vice presidential nominee.

She accepted the nomination during the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, August 19, a week after Joe Biden announced her as his running mate. Harris is the first Black and South Asian American woman to run on a major political party's presidential ticket.

Harris, a California Democrat who previously served as the state's attorney general, launched her own presidential campaign in January 2019 and promised to be a fighter "for the people." She ended her campaign in December, telling her supporters that the campaign didn't have the financial resources to continue.

During her campaign, Harris' allies believed that her life's work as a prosecutor would help set her apart from a crowded Democratic field. Her signs carried her campaign theme "Kamala Harris for the people" — the words that she spoke each time she rose in the courtroom as a prosecutor.