We were excited to sit in the President’s box at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee when Sen. JD Vance gave his acceptance speech.
That evening, we noticed a woman sitting in the front row who we didn’t recognize. Imagine our surprise when he introduced her as his mother, Beverly Vance, who is now ten years free from heroin addiction. We all applauded her, and it was deeply emotional to see her on stage with the rest of the family after his speech.
When Vance’s wife Usha Chilukuri Vance introduced him, it was an interesting moment for everyone watching at the convention and at home. Usha Vance is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale University. She earned her master’s degree in philosophy and early modern history at Clare College, Cambridge in England. She was also editor of the Yale Law Reivew before graduating from Yale Law School. While at Yale, she also taught American history as a part of a Yale program at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China.
To say Usha Vance is impressive understates just how well JD Vance married (as he himself admits).
