USHA (Chilukuri ) Vance, the wife of Donald Trump’s running mate Senator JD Vance of Ohio, is the daughter of Indian immigrants, who are both professors.

She met her husband at Yale Law School and married him in 2014 in Kentucky, in an interfaith marriage ceremony. They have three children: Ewan (born 2017), Vivek (born 2020), and Mirabel (born 2021). She is a practicing Hindu and her husband is Roman Catholic, according to Wikipedia.

Ms. Vance worked as an associate and then as a corporate litigator at Munger, Tolles, and Olson, a law firm with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington. The firm announced on Monday that she had resigned.

She clerked for Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and also for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh when he was an appeals court judge. She has degrees from Yale and Cambridge.

She then attended Cambridge University in England as a Gates Cambridge Scholar, receiving a Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) in 2010. In 2013, she earned a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Yale Law School, according to  Wikipedia.

The New York Times reported that as of 2014, she was a registered Democrat.

The newspaper said that she played “a quiet but significant role in her husband’s rise.” It added: “She helped him organize his ideas about social decline in rural white America, which formed the basis of his breakout memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy.””

The New York Times noted: “Before becoming Mr. Trump’s vice-presidential pick, Mr. Vance once identified himself as “a Never Trump guy” and said he “never liked him.” But Mr. Vance went on to embrace Mr. Trump and accepted the former president’s endorsement in the Republican primary for the open U.S. Senate seat in Ohio that he won.”