Who is Usha Vance? What to know about the lawyer married to JD Vance

JD Vance was sworn successful arsenic the United States vice president connected Monday with his wife, Usha Chilukuri Vance, and their 3 young children by his side.

As the vice president and President Donald Trump took the spotlight during the inauguration day, Google was buzzing with a trending question: “Who is J.D. Vance’s wife?”

Here is what to cognize astir the caller 2nd woman and Yale-educated lawyer.

Vance, 39, was raised successful San Diego, by Indian migrant parents. Her parent is simply a biologist and provost astatine the University of California astatine San Diego; her begetter is an engineer, according to the Associated Press.

She earned her bachelor’s grade from Yale University and a master’s grade from the University of Cambridge, done the Gates Cambridge scholarship.

After Cambridge, she went to Yale Law School, wherever she met her husband, JD Vance, who was besides studying law.

In his 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, Vance said the 2 got to cognize each different done a people assignment, wherever helium soon “fell hard” for his penning partner.

“In a spot that ever seemed a small foreign, Usha’s beingness made maine consciousness astatine home,” helium wrote.

They graduated successful 2013 and wed the pursuing year.

After instrumentality school, Usha Vance worked arsenic a instrumentality clerk for Brett Kavanaugh portion helium was serving arsenic an appeals tribunal justice successful Washington, D.C. Kavanaugh has since go a Supreme Court justice.

She besides worked arsenic a instrumentality clerk for Chief Justice John Roberts.

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According to her LinkedIn page, she was a proceedings lawyer for the Munger, Tolles and Olson instrumentality steadfast successful Ohio from January 2019 to July 2024. Vance near the instrumentality steadfast aft her hubby was chosen arsenic Trump’s moving mate.

“Usha has informed america she has decided to permission the firm,” Munger, Tolles & Olson said successful a statement. “Usha has been an fantabulous lawyer and colleague, and we convey her for her years of enactment and privation her the champion successful her aboriginal career.”

In her escaped time, Vance is simply a trustee of the Washington National Opera and has served connected the committee of the Gates Cambridge Alumni Association and arsenic caput of the committee of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, according to the White House.

— with files from the Associated Press