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First Indian American second lady
When her husband is sworn in as vice president, Usha Chilukuri Vance will become the first American of East Indian descent to be second lady in United States history.
The daughter of immigrants from India, Usha is an accomplished attorney and former clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. She married J.D. Vance in 2014, the two having met at Yale Law School.
“Usha was like my Yale spirit guide,” Vance wrote in Hillbilly Elegy. “She instinctively understood the questions I didn’t even know to ask and she always encouraged me to seek opportunities that I didn’t know existed.”
Usha is Hindu, while Vance, who was raised in Christian home but later became an atheist, converted to Catholicism in 2019. The interfaith couple have three children together.
