Who is Usha Vance? JD’s wife enters spotlight after Trump picks her husband for VP

After months of speculation, former President Donald Trump named Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his pick for vice president.

Serving as Ohio’s senator since 2023, Vance, 39, is now the youngest vice president candidate since Richard Nixon.

Vance has been married to his wife, Usha, for 10 years. The couple share three children together: Ewan, born in 2017; Vivek, born in 2019; and Mirabel, born in 2021.

The couple’s romance began while they were both students at Yale Law School. They reportedly met while working together to organize a discussion group focused on the “social decline in rural white America.” Usha Vance was the executive development editor of the Yale Law Journal and the managing editor of the Yale Journal of Law & Technology. She was involved with the Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic, the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic, and the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project.

The two got married a year after they graduated in 2014.

Usha Vance was born to Indian immigrants and grew up in the suburbs of San Diego. She attended the University of Cambridge as well as Yale, earning degrees at both institutions.

Usha Vance has led a successful law career. She worked as a litigator for Munger, Tolles & Olson, from 2015 to 2017 and later served as a law clerk for Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, then-Appeals Court judge Brett Kavanaugh, and Judge Amul Thapar. She returned to Munger, Tolles & Olson in 2019.

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She’s been by J.D. Vance’s side ever since he started his career in politics. J.D. Vance credits his wife for making his journey through the political realm a bit smoother.

“I’m one of those guys who really benefits from having sort of a powerful female voice over his left shoulder saying, ‘Don’t do that, do that,’” he told Megyn Kelly in a 2020 interview on her podcast, The Megyn Kelly Show.