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- Vice President JD Vance and Usha Vance have been married since 2014
- The couple met at Yale Law School
- They are parents to three children — sons Ewan and Vivek and daughter Mirabel — and are expecting their fourth child, a boy
Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, have been married since 2014.
The second couple are parents to three children and announced on Jan. 20 that Usha is pregnant with their fourth child, a boy. They shared the news on Instagram. Usha’s pregnancy marked the first time a vice presidential spouse has been pregnant while her husband is in office.
JD and Usha met at Yale Law School in the 2010s, during which time they organized a discussion group on the subject of “social decline in white America,” per The New York Times. Usha and JD married in 2014, a year after they graduated.
In November 2025, after Usha was spotted without her wedding ring, her spokesperson responded in a statement to PEOPLE, saying that she is “a mother of three young children, who does a lot of dishes, gives lots of baths, and forgets her ring sometimes.”
Here’s everything to know about JD Vance’s wife, Usha Vance.
They met in law school
JD and Usha reportedly met in 2013 when they were both students at Yale Law School. According to The New York Times, they worked together to organize a discussion group on the subject of “social decline in white America.”
The publication noted that reading material for the group included scholarly papers such as “Urban Appalachian Children: An ‘Invisible’ Minority in City Schools,” and posits that the syllabus “become something like the theoretical spine” for JD’s hit 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy, which documented his life growing up White working class in the postindustrial Rust Belt.
While studying at Yale, Usha was also the executive development editor of the Yale Law Journal and managing editor of the Yale Journal of Law & Technology, per her former bio on the Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP website. She participated in the Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic, the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic and the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project during her time at Yale.
Prior to Yale Law School, Usha received her bachelor’s in history from Yale University and her MPhil in early modern history from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar, per her LinkedIn.
They married in 2014
In 2014, the year after JD and Usha graduated from Yale Law School, the couple wed.
They have three kids and are expecting a fourth child
Together, JD and Usha have three children: two sons, Ewan and Vivek, and a daughter named Mirabel, per The Hill.
JD has made references to his children over the years. Notably, he read Dr. Seuss’ Oh, the Places You’ll Go! on the Senate floor for his son Vivek’s 4th birthday in February 2024.
“I’m sorry that they could I can’t be with you for your birthday dinner,” he said at the time. “But I want you to know that Daddy loves you very much. And I’m going to read this into the record because maybe you can watch it at home.”
On Jan. 20, the second couple announced that Usha is pregnant with their fourth child, a boy, who is due in July 2026.
She grew up in San Diego
Usha was born in California; per The New York Times, she is “the child of Indian immigrants,” and grew up in the suburbs of San Diego.
According to her LinkedIn, she attended Mt. Carmel High School, a public high school located in Rancho Peñasquitos.
She worked as a litigator
Usha worked as a litigator in the San Francisco and Washington, D.C., offices of Munger, Tolles & Olson, per the company’s website. She worked with the company from 2015 to 2017 before going on to serve as a law clerk for the Supreme Court until 2018. During that time, she clerked for Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as Judge Brett Kavanaugh and Judge Amul Thapar.
She later returned to Munger, Tolles & Olson in January 2019 and her practice focused “on complex civil litigation and appeals in a wide variety of sectors, including higher education, local government, entertainment, and technology, including semiconductors,” according to the firm’s website.
Shortly after JD’s nomination was announced, Usha’s profile was removed from the firm’s website. They said in a statement to PEOPLE, “Usha has been an excellent lawyer and colleague, and we thank her for her years of work and wish her the best in her future career.”
In her own statement, provided to SFGATE, Usha said, “In light of today’s news, I have resigned from my position at Munger, Tolles & Olson to focus on caring for our family. I am forever grateful for the opportunities I’ve had at Munger and for the excellent colleagues and friends I’ve worked with over the years.”
She gave her first solo interview in August 2024
Amid the 2024 presidential race, Usha sat down with Fox News in August 2024 for her first solo interview. She spoke about adjusting to life in the public eye and addressed a few of JD’s controversial comments, including his 2021 remark about the U.S. being run by “childless cat ladies.”
“The reality is, JD … made a quip in service of making a point that he wanted to make that was substantive,” she said. “What he was really saying is that it can be really hard to be a parent in this country, and sometimes our policies are designed in a way that make it even harder.”
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