Usha Vance became the first Indian-American and Hindu woman to be sworn in as the 50th president of the United States when her husband J.D. Vance was sworn in as the 50th president of the United States on Monday.
She held a scripture in one hand and their daughter Mirabel Rose in the other, while Vance placed his hand on the holy text and took the oath by raising his right hand.
President Donald Trump later said that Usha Vance was more talented than her husband and may have chosen her as president.
Usha Vance’s teacher, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, administered the oath to her husband.
J.D. Vance was sworn in shortly after President Donald Trump was sworn in.
Before Vance took the stage, military personnel brought their children Evan Blaine, 7, Vivek, 4, and Mirabel Rose, 3, to the stage in formal attire.
The boys wore formal suits, and Usha Vance was in a pink dress.
When J.D. When Vance repeated the oath after Kavanaugh, she glowed and looked at him reverently.
J.D. Vance’s mother, Beverly Aikins, who has given up drugs, stood with the family during the ceremony.
Usha Vance is the daughter of Telugu workers from India, Radhakrishna “Krish” Chilukuri, an aviation manufacturer, and Lakshmi Chilukuri, an executive at the University of California, San Diego.
J.D. Vance and Usha met while he was studying law at Yale University.
J.D. Vance, who came from a broken family, his mother was a drug addict, and suffered poverty, credited Usha in his diary as being his “spirit guide” who helped him navigate his pursuit of an Ivy Alliance college and professional life.
Raised by his grandmother, Vance joined the Army to escape the brokenness of life in Middleton, Ohio, and got his break with admission to Yale, where he said he felt out of place.
He wrote: “In a place that always seemed a little remote, the proximity of Usha made me feel at home.”
They married in 2014.
After practicing law for a while, J.D. Vance moved into commerce as a wandering capitalist.
Entering legislative affairs, he was elected to the Senate in 2022.
Usha Vance is a corporate litigator who vacated a prestigious law firm after being nominated as a presidential candidate.
She had already worked as a receptionist for Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Kavanaugh while he was a U.S. Court judge.
J.D. Vance also influenced him.
He shifted his nomination from the majority ruling party to the Republican Party.