JD Vance’s wife, Usha Chilukuri Vance, has left her law firm after her husband was officially announced as former President Donald Trump’s running mate at the Republican National Convention on Monday.
“Usha has informed us that she has decided to leave the company,” a Munger spokesperson, Tolles, said. & Olsen told ABC News. “Usha has been an excellent attorney and colleague, and we thank her for her years of work and wish her the best in her future career.”
Before leaving the firm, Usha’s practice focused on “complex civil litigation and appeals in a wide variety of industries, including higher education, local government, entertainment and technology, including semiconductors,” according to her biographical page on the firm’s website, before it was removed.
Republican U.S. Senate candidate JD Vance kisses his wife Usha Vance after winning the primary, during a campaign night event at the Duke Energy Convention Center on May 3, 2022, in Cincinnati.
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Usha previously served as a law clerk to Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. of the United States Supreme Court, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, then of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Judge Amul Thapar, then of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, according to the firm.
Born Usha Chilukuri, the wife of the newly announced vice president, grew up in San Diego, California, and is the daughter of Indian immigrants.
She received her law degree from Yale Law School and, during her time there, served as executive development editor of the Yale Law Journal and editor-in-chief of the Yale Journal of Law. & Technology, according to his bio page.
JD and Usha met while studying at Yale Law School and married in Kentucky in 2014, according to The New York Times.
Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, and his wife Usha Chilukuri Vance arrive on the floor during the first day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at Fiserv Forum on July 15, 2024.
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Usha also holds a BA in History from Yale University and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar.
While studying at Yale, Usha also traveled to China to teach American history as a Yale-China Teaching Fellow at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, according to the firm.
Usha 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, according to her bio.
JD and Usha Vance share three children and reside in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he is a U.S. senator.
