Meet Usha Vance: JD Vance’s Wife and America’s Second Lady with a India Connection

Apr 21, 2025 Komal Das

Usha Vance, wife of US Vice President JD Vance, is in Delhi with her husband and three children on a 4-day visit from April 21–24

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Born Usha Chilukuri, she is the daughter of Indian immigrants and was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area

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She studied History at Yale University, earned a Master’s at Cambridge, and later pursued law at Yale where she met JD Vance

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Usha is a respected attorney who clerked for US Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh

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Usha and JD Vance married in 2014 and have three children — Ewan, Vivek, and Mirabel

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Her family is from Vadluru, Andhra Pradesh. Her father is an IIT Madras alumnus, and her mother is a molecular biologist

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They had a Hindu wedding. Usha’s heritage influenced JD Vance to embrace vegetarianism and explore Hindu philosophy

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