Usha Bala Chilukuri was born in 1986 in a suburb of San Diego, California, to Telugu Indian immigrants. Her father is … See more

Vance served as a law clerk for Judge Amul Thapar of the District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky from 2013 to 2014, Judge Brett Kavanaugh on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2014 t… See more

In November 2024, as JD Vance became the vice president-elect of the United States, Usha Vance assumed the role of Second Lady of the United States Designate. In January 2025, she will be the first Indian American, … See more

While at Yale Law School, Chilukuri met her future husband, JD Vance, a relationship encouraged by their professor Amy Chua. Chua has called their relationship "extremely unlikely, almost opposites o… See more

According to public records, in 2014 Chilukuri voted in Democratic primaries, but in 2022, she voted in the Republican primary in which her husband was a candidate. She clerked for conservative judges, suc… See more

In Hillbilly Elegy (2020), a film about the life of her husband, she was portrayed by actress Freida Pinto. See more