Meet Usha Vance: Yale-educated lawyer and Indian-origin wife of US Vice President-elect JD Vance

Usha and JD Vance met at Yale Law School, and they got married in Kentucky in 2014 (Image: X)

At the Palm Beach County Convention Centre in Florida, as he neared a historic election victory, Donald Trump delivered a speech to an enthusiastic crowd, honouring his running mate JD Vance and his Indian-American wife, Usha Chilukuri Vance.

“I want to be the first to congratulate - now I can say Vice President-elect JD Vance. And his remarkable and beautiful wife, Usha Vance,” Trump said, drawing loud cheers from the crowd.

The spotlight is now on Usha Vance, a lawyer with a Yale degree, who is set to break new ground as the first Indian-origin Second Lady of the United States.

Who is Usha Vance, the first Indian-origin woman set to become second lady of US?

- Born in 1986 in San Diego to Indian immigrant parents, Usha Vance grew up in an upper-middle-class suburb.

- She holds a bachelor's degree in History from Yale University and a Master of Philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge.

- The would-be second lady of the United States clerked for Supreme Court Justices John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh before Kavanaugh’s nomination to the court. Usha served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal and managing editor of the Yale Journal of Law & Technology and took part in classes offering free legal advice on supreme court and media freedom issues, according to a report by Guardian.

- Usha and JD Vance met at Yale Law School, and they got married in Kentucky in 2014, with a separate ceremony later blessed by a Hindu pundit, according to a report by New York Times. Together, they have three children.

- The 38-year-old Usha Vance played a pivotal role in her husband's rise to national fame, helping to frame his analysis of the social decline in rural White America, which became the foundation of his 2016 bestselling book “Hillbilly Elegy”.