JD Vance's new memoir sheds light on his marriage to Usha Vance. Here's a timeline of their relationship.

When Fox News asked Usha Vance in June 2024 how she felt about her husband, JD Vance, being considered as Donald Trump’s running mate, she told host Lawrence Jones that she was “not raring to change anything about our lives right now.” But it appears that she came around, holding the Bible at the 2025 inauguration as JD Vance was sworn in as vice president of the United States.

JD Vance, the former junior senator from Ohio and bestselling author of memoirs “Hillbilly Elegy” and “Communion,” and Usha Vance, a litigator whose résumé includes a Supreme Court clerkship, met as students at Yale Law School and wed in 2014.

Since becoming vice president and second lady, the Vances have taken several international trips together, including a visit to the US military’s Pituffik Space Base in Greenland in March 2025 and the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in February 2026.

In January 2026, the Vances announced they are expecting their fourth child, making Usha Vance the first second lady in US history to be pregnant while in office.

Here’s a look inside the relationship of the GOP power couple serving as vice president and second lady.