Usha Vance, the first Indian-origin US Second Lady, is the wife of Vice President JD Vance

 

Usha is an experienced litigator whose work involved complex civil litigation and appeals in a wide variety of industries

 

She also clerked for Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Brett Kavanaugh

 

 

Prior to that, Usha clerked for Judge Amul Thapar, then of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

 

Usha and JD met while attending Yale Law School

 

Usha earned her bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a master’s degree from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar

 

 

In her free time, she is a trustee of the Washington National Opera and has served on the board of the Gates Cambridge Alumni Association and as secretary of the board of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

 

Her family hails from Vadluru, a village in Andhra Pradesh

 

 

Usha’s parents Chilukuri Radhakrishna and Lakshmi, raised her in San Diego, where they moved in the 1980s

 

She is the mother of Ewan, Vivek, and Mirabel

 

Source: The White House, Agencies – editor@nrifocus.com