JD Vance's wife Usha becomes first Indian American second lady

JD Vance's wife, Usha Vance, is making history as the first Indian American second lady in the White House.

Vance, who is the daughter of Indian immigrants, will also be the first Hindu second lady.

Usha Vance is an attorney, and served as a clerk for Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts before working for the law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson. She left her role at the law firm in July after her husband became the vice presidential nominee for the GOP. 

Usha and J.D. Vance met at Yale Law School and have been married since 2014. In his memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy," J.D. Vance said the two got to know each other through a class assignment, where he soon "fell hard" for his writing partner.

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They have three children together: sons, Ewan, 6, and Vivek, 4, and a daughter, Mirabel, 2.

Vance credited his "beautiful wife for making it possible to do this" when he was announced as Trump's running mate.

"THANK YOU! To my beautiful wife for making it possible to do this," he wrote on X. "To President Donald J. Trump, for giving me such an opportunity to serve our country at this level. And to the American people, for their trust. I will never stop fighting for ALL of you."

Usha had expressed skepticism in the past about the possibility that her husband could be Trump's VP pick, telling FOX News that such a decision would change the couple's lives.

"I'm not raring to change anything about our lives right now," she said while noting she is "open" to whatever happens.

US President Donald Trump (L) arrives with Vice-President JD Vance (C) and his wife Usha Vance in Emancipation Hall at the US Capitol after being sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump takes o

"One really good piece of advice that someone gave me is just not to read the news that much, and it's not burying your head in the sand or anything like that. It's just JD is out there. He's talking about all sorts of things. He's thinking all sorts of things and I just think he deserves to have someone in his life who hears it straight from him and doesn't just hear what other people are saying about him all the time. And so I think that really helps," she said during an exclusive interview with "Fox & Friends."

In a previous interview, she discussed how she grew up in a significantly different environment from her husband. 

"My background is very different from JD's. I grew up in San Diego, in a middle-class community with two loving parents, both immigrants from India, and a wonderful sister," she said at the Republican National Convention. "That JD and I could meet at all, let alone fall in love and marry, is a testament to this great country."

Reuters reports that her family moved to the U.S. in the late 70's and teach engineering and molecular biology in San Diego.

The Source: Information for this story is from FOX News and FOX 5 DC.

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