Usha Chilukuri Vance: Ohio Republican Senator J.D. Vance was nominated by former President Donald Trump as the Republican vice presidential nominee at the party convention in Milwaukee on Monday, July 15.
JD Vance, a one-time critic of Trump, said he has the full support of his Indian-American wife Usha Chilukuri Vance, who was present at the conference.
Usha and JD Vance have three children. While Usha generally keeps a low profile, she has made the occasional political appearance, including during her 2022 Senate campaign in Ohio. Usha works as an attorney in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. She clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., as well as Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Justice Amul Thapar.
According to The New York Times, Usha was born in California to Indian immigrants. She grew up in the suburbs of San Diego. According to her LinkedIn profile, she attended Mount Carmel High School located in Rancho Penasquitos. Usha enrolled in Yale Law School, where she met her future husband JD Vance in 2013. According to a New York Times report, they worked together on a group project on the topic of “Social Degradation in White America.”
Soon after, the two grew close, with J.D. Vance often referring to Usha as his “Yale spiritual mentor.” They married in 2014, after graduating from Yale Law School. Usha has a BA in History from Yale University and an MPhil in Early Modern History from the University of Cambridge.
During her time at Yale, Usha served as the executive development editor of the Yale Law Journal and the managing editor of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology. She participated in the Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic, the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic, and the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project, reports People.com. JD Vance and Usha have three children – two sons, Evan and Vivek, and a daughter, Mirabel.
Usha is an accomplished lawyer who worked at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in San Francisco and Washington DC from 2015 to 2017 before serving as a law clerk at the US Supreme Court in 2018. She returned to Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in January 2019, according to People.com.
She has experience in complex civil litigation and appeals across a variety of sectors, including education, government, and healthcare. With an illustrious career ahead of her, Usha has a chance to make history by entering the White House if her husband is elected and takes on the role of Vice President.