JD Vance and Usha Vance: inside their relationship

When asked in June 2024 how she felt about her husband being vetted as Donald Trump's running mate, Usha Vance said she was 'not raring to change anything about our lives right now.' She later held the Bible at the 2025 inauguration as JD Vance was sworn in as vice president.

The couple met at Yale Law School, married in 2014, and have since served as a high-profile political partnership: he is a former junior senator and bestselling author, and she is a litigator who clerked for the Supreme Court. JD Vance was born in Ohio, raised by his grandparents in Kentucky, served as a Marine in Iraq, and studied political science and philosophy at Ohio State.

Usha Vance grew up in a San Diego suburb as the daughter of Indian immigrants, studied history at Yale, taught American history in Guangzhou as a Yale-China Teaching Fellow, is conversant in German, and was a registered Democrat until 2014.

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