Everything about Douglas Emhoff

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Everything about Douglas Emhoff
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Introduction

• Doug Emhoff is an attorney. He was born in
  Brooklyn. He went to school in California and got
  his law degree there. In 1990, he became a
  lawyer. He eventually became a partner at the top
  law firms Venable and DLA Piper. He worked on a
  number of high-profile cases for wealthy clients.
  Emhoff is also known for marrying Vice President
  Kamala Harris. Douglas will be the first Jewish
  person to marry a vice president of the United
  States. He is the first Second Gentleman of the
  United States.

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Early Life

• Douglas Craig Emhoff was born in New York on
  October 13, 1964. Barbara and Mike were his mom
  and dad, and Mike made shoes for women.

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Family

• The future lawyer and his older sister Jamie and
  younger brother Andy grew up in New Jersey.
  Douglas family moved to California when he was
  17 years old. He got out of Agoura High School in
  1982. He dealt with the school paper and did
  things like tennis and skiing, as per the
  yearbook.
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School

• Emhoff went to college at Cal State Northridge
  and got a Bachelor of Arts degree in
  communication studies. Douglas went to the USC
  Gould School of Law and got his J.D. in 1990.

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Legal Work

• Emhoff began his career as a partner at Pillsbury
  Winthrop Shaw Pittman. In 1990, he moved to
  Bingham McCutchen. The young lawyer moved to
  Belin Rawlings Badal at the end of the decade
  and became a partner there. His work in the
  entertainment industry with Hollywood Video and
  the studios gave him his first big taste of
  entertainment law.

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Start the Law Firm

• He started the law firm Whitwell Jacoby Emhoff
  with two other people in the year 2000. He
  finally got them to move their business
  litigation practise to Venable LLP, which was a
  bigger firm. Emhoff later joined a high-profile
  lawsuit about who had the right to make the
  famous Taco Bell chihuahua. He also worked on
  important cases for the drug company Merck, the
  arms dealer Dolarian Capital, and the NFL player
  Willie Gault. After helping to open Venables
  office in San Francisco, he was named managing
  director of the companys West Coast operations
  in 2015.

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Children from the First Relationship

• Emhoff married the actress Kerstin Mackin in
  1992. Cole was their son, and Ella was their
  daughter. Both were named after famous jazz
  musicians, John Coltrane and Ella Fitzgerald.
  Before they split up, they had been married for
  16 years.

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Marriage

• In 2013, Emhoff and Harris met through a client
  and friend of both of them. Harris was the top
  lawyer in California at the time. The
  relationship got better and better, and in March
  2014, Emhoff asked her to marry him. They got
  married at the courthouse in Santa Barbara,
  California, on August 22, 2014. The ceremony,
  which was a mix of Hindu and Jewish traditions,
  was run by Harriss sister, Maya.

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Won the Election

• When Harris became Joe Bidens running mate in
  August 2020, Emhoff took his campaigning more
  seriously. His appearances with Jill Biden and
  his use of social media as _at_DougHive brought him
  attention. On November 7, 2020, when it was
  announced that they had won the election, he was
  there to record his wifes happy call to Biden.
  This was a historic moment because Harris was the
  first woman, black person, and Asian American to
  get to her position, and Emhoff was the first
  Jewish person to marry a vice president of
  the United States.

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Interests

• Emhoff has been a speaker for the non-profit
  Association of Independent Commercial Producers
  and has done community and charity work in the
  areas of legal aid, social justice, and child
  welfare. Douglas also likes to play golf and
  fantasy football, and when his wife is cooking,
  he does a good job as a sous-chef.