当副总统当选人卡玛拉·哈里斯在周三的就职典礼上宣誓就职时，她历史性的选举将不仅体现在她的言论上，也体现在细节上。
这位副总统当选人将由另一位历史性的女性第一人索尼娅·索托马约尔大法官宣誓就职。索托马约尔是第一位拉丁裔最高法院法官。
据知情人士透露，哈里斯告诉美国广播公司新闻，这位副总统当选人受到了索托马约尔法官背景的启发。两人都曾担任过前检察官——加州的哈里斯和纽约的索托马约尔。
在她的获胜演讲中，哈里斯引用了她母亲夏马拉·戈帕兰·哈里斯的一句格言，她母亲经常告诉她，她将是第一个做很多事情的人，但她敦促她为别人开门。
哈里斯说:“虽然我可能是这个办公室的第一位女性，但我不会是最后一位。”。
在这历史性的一天，哈里斯选择用两本圣经宣誓就职。其中一个以前属于里贾纳·谢尔顿夫人，她就像哈里斯和她的妹妹玛雅的第二个母亲。姐妹俩亲切地称谢尔顿的家为“房子”，每天放学后都会去看看。他们变得与谢尔顿的女儿和她的养子非常亲近。哈里斯一生都记得谢尔顿。哈里斯在为加州司法部长和美国参议院宣誓就职时使用了谢尔顿的圣经。
第二本圣经属于已故民权偶像和最高法院大法官瑟古德·马歇尔，他启发了哈里斯的职业道路。
“我心目中最伟大的英雄是律师:瑟古德·马歇尔、查尔斯·汉密尔顿·休斯顿、康斯坦斯·贝克·莫特利——民权运动的巨人。哈里斯在她的回忆录《我们持有的真理》中写道:“我非常关心公平，我认为法律是一种有助于公平的工具。”
哈里斯甚至把她在霍华德大学的入学成绩归功于马歇尔，马歇尔也毕业于历史悠久的黑人大学。
哈里斯写道:“我想有个好的开始。”。"我想，还有什么地方比瑟古德·马歇尔的母校更适合做这件事呢?"
马歇尔于1933年毕业于哈佛商学院法学院，比哈里斯第一次踏入校园早了50多年。
Harris to be sworn in by Justice Sonia Sotomayor at inauguration
When Vice President-elect Kamala Harris takes the oath of office at Wednesday's inauguration, the magnitude of her historicelectionwill be marked not only in her remarks but in the details.
The vice president-elect will be sworn in by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, another historic female first. Sotomayor is the first Latina Supreme Court Justice.
Harris, according to a source with knowledge, told ABC News that the vice president-elect was inspired by Justice Sotomayor's background. The pair both previously served as former prosecutors -- Harris in California, Sotomayor in New York.
During her victory speech Harris weaved in an adage from her mother, Shymala Gopalan Harris, who often told her she would be the first to do many things, but urged her to open doors for others.
"While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last," said Harris.
For the historic day, Harris has chosen to be sworn in using two bibles. One previously belonged to Mrs. Regina Shelton, who was like a second mother to Harris and her sister Maya. The two sisters affectionately called Shelton's home "the house" and would visit daily after school. They became incredibly close to Shelton's daughter and her foster children. Harris has carried the memory of Shelton throughout her life. Harris used Shelton's bible during her swearing in for California Attorney General and the United States Senate.
The second bible belonged to the late civil rights icon and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, someone who inspired Harris' career path.
"Some of my greatest heroes were lawyers: Thurgood Marshall, Charles Hamilton Houston, Constance Baker Motley—giants of the civil rights movement. I cared a lot about fairness, and I saw the law as a tool that can help make things fair," Harris wrote in her memoir, "The Truths We Hold."
Harris even credited her matriculation at Howard University to Marshall, who also graduated from the historically black university.
"I wanted to get off on the right foot," wrote Harris. "And what better place to do that, I thought, than at Thurgood Marshall's alma mater?"
Marshall graduated from the HBCU's law school in 1933 more than five decades before Harris would first step foot on campus.
