Who is JD Vance’s wife Usha? Meet the Ivy-League educated lawyer behind Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick

Usha Chilukuri Vance steps into the spotlight. The beautiful woman is the wife of JD Vance, the Republican senator from Ohio who has been tipped as Donald Trump’s running mate in 2024.

But Vance is a talented woman in her own right: she trained as an Ivy League lawyer and once clerked for Chief Justice John Roberts.

The couple first met when they were both students at Yale Law School in 2013. In his book Hillbilly Elegy, Vance describes her as his “Yale spiritual guide.”

They married in 2014 shortly after graduating from law school and had their first child, Ewan Blaine, in 2017.

Their first son, Ewan Blaine, was born in 2017. They also have a second son, Vivek, and welcomed a daughter, Mirabel, in December 2021. The couple is raising their three children in Cincinnati.

Vance was recently asked if she’s prepared for all eyes to be on her if her husband is named Trump’s running mate.

“I don’t know if anyone is ever ready for that kind of exploration,” Vance told Fox & Friends last month. “I think the first campaign he started was a shock to us. It was so different from anything we had ever done before, but it was an adventure.”

She told Fox that she’s not excited to change anything in their lives right now, but she really believes in her husband and loves him. They’ll see what happens.

The daughter of Indian immigrants, born Usha Chilukuri, Vance was raised in the suburbs of San Diego by a mechanical engineer and a biologist. She has said she was raised in a religious Hindu household.

From California, she moved across the country for college, attending Yale University where she studied history, then continued her studies at the University of Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Scholar.

At Yale Law School she was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal of Law & Technology.

Vance is now an attorney at the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson in San Francisco and Washington, DC, where she focuses on complex civil litigation and appeals.

Usha and JD Vance with their three children. They welcomed their first child in 2017. Their daughter Mirabel was born in December 2021

Usha Chilukuri Vance stands with her husband JD Vance as he arrives for his 2022 election night party after being declared the winner of the Ohio Senate race on November 8, 2022.

The couple celebrates election night in 2022 after Vance won the Senate race. She described his first campaign in Ohio as an ‘adventure’

When her husband ran for Ohio Senate in 2022, Vance was seen at campaign events across the state.

She also appeared in his first campaign ads, in which she talked about raising Vance and having him by her side as a husband and parent to their children.

She describes him as a wonderful father and her best friend.

JD Vance kissed by his wife Usha on the night of the Ohio Senate primary on May 3, 2022

At Munger, Tolles & Olson, Vance’s cases focused on a wide range of subjects, including higher education, local government, entertainment and technology.

Before joining the firm, she clerked for Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.

She also clerked for Judge Brett Kavanaugh when he was a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and for Judge Amul Thapar on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

At Yale Law School, she also participated in the Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic, the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic, and the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project.

When asked last month what issue she would focus on if she became Second Lady, Vance declined to answer, saying they were too far ahead to even consider it and were focused on their family.