Vice President elected J.D. Vance He is a Yale-educated lawyer, politician, author and venture capitalist.

on July 15 Republican National ConventionPresident-elect Donald Trump announced that he has chosen J.D. Vance, a former harsh critic of him and now a junior U.S. senator from Ohio, as his vice president.

The 40-year-old politician gained fame with his work 2016 memoir, “Peasant Lament.” The book was: Adapted into a 2020 Netflix drama and the film featured the young politician’s developing relationship with his future wife, Usha Chilukuri Vance, played by actor Freida Pinto.

JD and Usha Vance married in 2014 and today I have three children.

Read on for what we know about the wife of Trump’s running mate.

Originally from San Diego

Accordingly New York TimesUsha Vance, 38, was born to parents who immigrated from India and grew up in a suburb of San Diego, California.

He also practices Hinduism like his parents

He said Usha Vance’s parents practiced Hinduism. June 2024 interview with Fox News.

His father is mechanical engineer Krish Chilukuri. lecturer at San Diego State UniversityHis mother is Lakshmi Chilukuri, a marine molecular biologist and biochemist. Rector at University of California, San Diego.

inside Interview with Fox NewsUsha Vance mentioned that she supported JD Vance when he decided to convert to Catholicism. He was first baptized in 2019, according to an interview the couple had with authorities. New York Times.

When asked why she supported her husband’s choice, Usha Vance talked about her own religious upbringing on Fox News.

“I grew up in a religious home,” Usha Vance told Fox News. “My parents are Hindu, and that was one of the things that made them such good parents, made them really good people. “I think I’ve seen the power of this in my own life.”

When it comes to raising her children with two religious people, Usha Vance said: “There are a lot of things we agree on, especially when it comes to family life and how we raise our children. The answer is, we talk a lot.”

JD and Usha Vance met in law school

In an interview in 2017 NBC NewsUsha Vance thought she met JD Vance when the two were students at Yale Law School. He said the two “took all their classes together.”

“We were friends and I liked that he was a hard worker,” he said. “He would show up at 9 a.m. for appointments I would make so we could start working together on this brief.”

During the interview, JD Vance said his wife was quick to protect him.

“What I remember most about Usha was how forward-thinking and comfortable with herself she was,” J.D. Vance recalled of his law student wife. “(He) was very defensive about the things he really cared about.”

“You know, our dog got in trouble at day care,” she recalled. “This is our daycare dog, and Usha’s response was: ‘He’s too good for daycare.'”

Their wedding took place in 2014

Accordingly New York TimesThe two married in 2014 in a wedding in Kentucky where guests sat on wooden benches placed on the lawn. They were also blessed by a Hindu expert in a separate ceremony, The New York Times reported.

Today they have 3 children

the couple has three young children: Sons named Ewan and Vivek and a daughter named Mirabel.

The couple was expecting their first child at the time of an interview with NBC News in 2017. Usha Vance described her husband as “kind” and “gentle.”

“He’s actually a very kind person,” she said at the time. “I think it comes through in the way he tells stories. We have two dogs and the way he treats them; “They’re like his babies, and that’s why I’ve been seeing him with defenseless creatures for years.”

He previously worked as a lawyer

Usha Vance earned a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and then attended the University of Cambridge for a master’s degree before returning to the United States to attend law school at Yale.

HE LinkedIn page It shows that he worked as a paralegal at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP for almost six years.

Following the announcement of J.D. Vance’s vice presidential pick, Usha Vance resigned from her position.

“Usha informed us that she has decided to leave the company. Usha is an excellent attorney and colleague, and we thank her for her years of work and wish her all the best in her future career,” communications manager Sara Rosenblit said in an email to TODAY.com.

His old biography company websiteHe has since been dismissed, describing him as a litigator for San Francisco and Washington D.C. offices whose practice focuses on “complex litigation and appeals” in industries such as “higher education, local government, entertainment and technology.”

The law firm’s website says he clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and also clerked for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, where he also served as an appeals court judge in Washington, D.C.

He’s a bookworm

In a profile dated October 22, NBC News He noted that Usha Vance read an edition of “The Iliad” translated by University of Pennsylvania classicist Emily Wilson during the campaign.

“It’s because our child, who is now 7, decided in the spring that he was obsessed with mythology,” she told NBC News. “He picked up the children’s version of ‘The Odyssey’ and then ‘The Iliad’ and all that stuff and became completely obsessed. So I decided it was time to pick up ‘The Iliad’ myself to keep up with him.”

The story highlighted the campaign essay reading list, which included Daniel Mason’s “North Woods” and Tana French’s “In the Woods.”

by 2022 New York Times In the profile, Usha Vance marked 65 books as “read” between 2007 and 2010. The publication noted that the books include works by Zadie Smith, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Vladimir Nabokov.

CORRECTION (7/15/2015, 4:58 PM ET): A previous version of this article misspelled actor Freida Pinto’s name.

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