Usha Chilukuri Vance steps into a harsh spotlight
Usha Chilukuri Vance, the wife of Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick, will step into a glaring spotlight when she introduces Sen. JD Vance on stage at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night. The Southern California native brings a résumé studded with elite legal credentials to a campaign defined by the former president’s fiery populism.
The 38-year-old is the daughter of Indian immigrants, graduated from Yale Law School and clerked for Brett Kavanaugh when he was an appellate judge. She later clerked for Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, starting her job about a month after her first child was born. Less than a decade ago, she was registered as a Democrat, and she has at times seemed wary of partisan politics.
“She isn’t an ideological or political person at all," said Chris Michel, a lawyer in Washington who attended law school with the couple. “I don’t think she would have pictured or sought this particular role in politics." Usha Vance acknowledged as much in a recent interview. “I don’t know that anyone is ever ready for that kind of scrutiny," she said when asked on “Fox & Friends" about the possibility that her husband would be named as a vice presidential candidate.
“I think we found the first campaign that he embarked upon was a shock." The Trump campaign didn’t respond to requests to make her available for an interview. After Trump picked her 39-year-old husband on Monday, Usha Vance resigned from her job as a litigator at the firm Munger, Tolles & Olson. The couple, who reside in a Washington suburb, have three children under the age of 8, making them an unusually young family to occupy the vice presidency should Trump win.
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