What Is JD Vance’s India Connection? Meet Trump’s Running Mate’s Wife Usha Chilukuri Vance – News18

Former United States President and Republican Presidential Pick Donald Trump has selected Ohio Senator JD Vance as his running mate for the upcoming presidential elections in November. If Trump wins, Vance will be the next Vice-President of the United States.

JD Vance, who is the author of the bestselling memoir on what ails the White working class, Hillbilly Elegy, has an Indian connection. Vance, 39, is married to Usha Chilukuri Vance, who brings a wealth of credentials and a deep connection to Indian values and culture. She has been by Vance’s side throughout his political career and community initiatives.

The potential second lady is a litigator at a national firm. She holds a bachelor’s degree in History from Yale University and a Master of Philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge, according to the New York Times.

Usha Chilukuri Vance has clerked for Chief Justice John Roberts of the US Supreme Court and worked as a litigation associate at Munger, Tolles and Olson LLP. She also practiced law at Jones Day, a prominent law firm.

The two were married in an interfaith ceremony in Kentucky in 2014 – Usha Vance’s family is Hindu, while her husband converted to Catholicism in 2019. They have three children.

The daughter of Indian immigrants, Usha Chilukuri grew up in a suburb of San Diego. After college – two stints at Yale and a masters of philosophy at the University of Cambridge – she has clerked for two Supreme Court justices – Brett Kavanaugh when he served on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Chief Justice John Roberts.

In 2015, she started as an associate at Munger, Tolles & Olson, a law firm with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, DC. She continued working at the firm between clerkships, where – according to an archived version of her employee biography – she handled “complex civil litigation and appeals” in sectors that included “higher education, local government, entertainment, and technology, including semiconductors.”

The firm announced Monday that she had resigned.

“Usha has informed us she has decided to leave the firm,” the company said in a statement. “Usha has been an excellent lawyer and colleague, and we thank her for her years of work and wish her the best in her future career.”