Who is Usha Vance? Yale law graduate and wife of vice presidential nominee JD Vance
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Associated Press/Report for America
WASHINGTON (AP) — Usha Chilukuri Vance, wife of JD Vance, is a Yale law graduate and attorney. She stood next to her husband on Monday as he was named the Republican vice presidential nominee at the Republican National Convention. The 38-year-old Chilukuri Vance was raised in San Diego, by Indian immigrants. Her mother is a biologist and provost at the University of California at San Diego; her father is an engineer, according to JD Vance’s campaign. She received an undergraduate degree at Yale University and a master of philosophy at the University of Cambridge through the Gates Cambridge scholarship.