[2][3][4] Emhoff graduated from the California State University, Northridge and USC Gould School of Law.

[5] He married film producer Kerstin Emhoff (née Mackin) in 1992; they divorced in 2008 after 16 years and two children.

Emhoff joined DLA Piper as a partner in 2017, working at its Washington, D.C., and California offices.

[8][9] Following the announcement that his wife would be Joe Biden's running mate in the 2020 United States presidential election, Emhoff took a leave of absence from the firm.

[9] After the Biden–Harris ticket won, the campaign announced Emhoff would permanently leave DLA Piper before Inauguration Day to avoid conflict of interest concerns.

[11][12] He was born September 15, 1994, to Kerstin Emhoff and was named after jazz musician John Coltrane.

Shyamala[a] (December 7, 1938 – February 11, 2009) was a biomedical scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,[19] whose work in isolating and characterizing the progesterone receptor gene stimulated advances in breast biology and oncology.

He is a Jamaican-American economist and professor emeritus at Stanford University, originally from Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica.

[22] He grew up in the Orange Hill area of Saint Ann Parish, near Brown's Town.

He directed the Consortium Graduate School of Social Sciences at the University of the West Indies in 1986–1987.

[36][37] Gopalan was a career civil servant, eventually serving as Joint Secretary to Government of India in the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Rehabilitation.

Their son Balachandran received a PhD in economics and computer science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and returned to an academic career in India.

He obtained a PhD in Economics and Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin in 1978 with dissertation devoted to Financial regulation of decentralized economies.

She started formal education in New Delhi and moved frequently between India, Mexico, and the United States.

[42] After moving to Oakland, California for college in 2001, Balachandran Orihuela's aunt, Shyamala Gopalan, helped her cope with race relations in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks and later influenced her intellectual trajectory.

In July of 2019, Snopes noted that Harris made errors in some of the vital dates he provided for births and deaths of his grandparents.

[24] The following year, PolitiFact stopped short of Snopes's unproven rating, and again reviewed the validity of the story, saying about the Stanford professor emeritus's claim that he is the descendant of the slave owner, "I would be inclined to believe him.

"[50] Harris' maternal ancestral home is the village of Thulasendrapuram in India, in which her grandfather P. V. Gopalan was born.