South Carolina’s first female and Indian born governor
Snapshots from Indian-American history
this month, that year
January 12, 2011
– Nikki Haley
assumes office as the governor of
South Carolina.
Born Nimrata Nikki Randhawa in Bamberg, South Carolina, to an Indian Sikh family, Haley is one of two sitting Indian American governors in the United States. The other is Bobby Jindal, the current governor of Louisiana. Jindal assumed office on January 14, 2008.
Sindya N. Bhanoo writes the Observatory column in the Science section of The New York Times. She is also a board member of South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA). This column’s material is from SAADA. https://www.saada.org/.
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