US First Lady Usha Vance To Lead Presidential Delegation At Special Olympics World Winter Games
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Usha Vance, a lawyer married to Vice President JD Vance since 2014, will lead the delegation to Turin, Italy for this year’s Special Olympics. The opening ceremony is scheduled for today.
US First Lady Usha Vance during Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of the Congress. (Reuters)
Indian-origin US First Lady Usha Vance has been selected to lead the presidential delegation to Italy for the 2025 Special Olympics World Winter Games, President Donald Trump’s office announced on Thursday.
Usha Vance, a lawyer married to Vice President JD Vance since 2014, will lead the delegation to Turin, the host city of Italy for this year’s Special Olympics. The opening ceremony is scheduled for Friday (March 7).
“President Donald J Trump today announced the designation of a Presidential Delegation to Turin, Italy to attend the Opening Ceremony of the Special Olympics World Winter Games, on March 7, 2025. Usha Vance, Second Lady of the United States, will lead the delegation,” the White House said in a statement.
The presidential delegation will include Shawn Crowley, American Chargé d’Affaires to Italy and San Marino, Trent Michael Morse, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Presidential Personnel, Riley Barnes, Senior Bureau Official of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the US Department of State, Douglass Benning, Consul General, US Consulate Milan, Italy and more.
Usha Vance was seen sitting beside former high school volleyball player Payton McNabb during Trump’s address to a joint session of the US Congress on Tuesday. The First Lady was reportedly “heartbroken” after learning that Trump’s executive order on transgender athletes’ participation in women’s and girls’ sports was not codified into law by the Senate, McNabb told Fox News.
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Who Is Usha Chilukuri Vance?
Usha Vance is a Yale-graduated lawyer who traces her roots to Andhra Pradesh and comes with a full bag of credentials and a touch of Indian culture in the American political system.
Usha Vance was born to Indian immigrant parents in 1986 in San Diego and was raised in an upper-middle-class suburb. She has an impressive academic background and works as a corporate litigator at a prestigious firm in San Francisco.
Before entering the legal field, Usha engaged in four years of intense extracurricular activity at Yale after which she continued her studies as a Gates fellow in Cambridge University. She met JD Vance at the Yale Law School, where the Ohio Senator got a scholarship, and the couple married in Kentucky in 2014 and were blessed by a Hindu priest in a separate ceremony. The couple has three children – Ewan, 6, Vivek, 4, and Mirabel, 2.
After his inauguration, Trump heaped praise on JD Vance for his re-election and said that he had endorsed him for Senate campaign for Ohio. “He was a great senator and a very, very smart one. The only one smarter is his wife,” Trump said. “I would have chosen her but somehow the line of succession didn’t work that way, right?”
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