During the 2024 vice presidential debate between J.D. Vance and Tim Walz, people saw that J.D. Vance’s wife, Usha Vance, came on stage with him as the candidates shook hands. She was a visible and helpful presence during the 2024 race for the White House. She showed up at important events like the 2024 Republican National Convention. Usha told the crowd at the convention that her background is very different from J.D.’s.
Usha said, “I grew up in a middle-class neighborhood in San Diego with two loving parents who were both immigrants from India and a wonderful sister.” She went on to say, “That J.D. and I could meet at all, let alone fall in love and get married, is a testament to this great country.”
Who is Usha Vance?
Usha Vance, who was born on January 6, 1986, in San Diego County, California, is from a Telugu Brahmin family. Her family moved to the US from India in the 1980s. She grew up in Rancho Peñasquitos, an upper-middle-class neighborhood, and spoke Telugu at home. Usha went to Yale Law School, where she studied history and was involved in campus groups like the Yale Law Journal and the Phi Beta Kappa sorority.
She worked as a law clerk for federal judges, including Brett Kavanaugh, after college. She voted in the Democratic primaries in 2014, but in 2022, when J.D. Vance was running for president, she voted in the Republican primaries.
When Did Usha and J.D. Vance First Meet?
The two met at Yale University, where their professor Amy Chua told them to date. In 2014, they got married in Kentucky.
Do Usha and J.D. Vance have kids?
J.D. Vance has talked a lot about how important family is. At the Republican National Convention in July 2024, he said that his biggest American dream was to be a good husband and father. He wanted to give his kids the chances he didn’t have when he was a kid. He joked with his kids during the speech, “If you’re watching, Daddy loves you very much, but it’s 10 o’clock. Get your butts in bed.”
Usha and J.D. have three kids: Ewan, who was born in June 2017, Vivek, who was born in February 2020, and Mirabel, who was born in December 2021.
