Global Hindu Heritage Foundation congratulates the Second Lady who was born into a rich cultural background and raised by academician parents. Usha Chilukuri Vance was born to Indian immigrants who moved to the U.S. in the late 1970s.  She was raised in the suburbs of San Diego, California.
Usha Vance will become the first Indian American second lady in the White House. She will also be the first Hindu second lady, according to ABC News. This is a testimony of integration, acceptance of diversity and appreciation of inclusivity in the United States. 
Her mother is a marine molecular biologist, biochemist and a provost at the University of California San Diego, according to Reuters. Her father is an engineer, according to a Scripps News report.
Her father and grandfather both taught or studied at the Indian Institute of Technology, India's premier engineering college, according to Reuters, and her younger sister is a mechanical engineer with a semiconductor company in San Diego.
A great-aunt, Shanthamma Chilukuri, lives in Visakhapatnam and has been celebrated in local media as the country's oldest active professor, according to Reuters. Shanthamma Chilukuri travels 40 miles most weekdays to university to teach physics.
Usha Vance graduated with a bachelor's degree in history from Yale University and was also a Gates Scholar at Cambridge University, where she graduated with a master’s degree in philosophy.
It was at Yale that Usha Chilukuri and JD Vance met. While there, they organized a discussion group on the subject of "social decline in white America," according to The New York Times.
Usha Chilukuri met JD Vance at Yale University, and both graduated from Yale in 2013.
The two were married in Kentucky in 2014, and blessed by a Hindu pundit in a separate ceremony, according to New York Times.
Speaking at Republican National Convention in July, she stated that “"My background is very different from JD's.”  “I grew up in San Diego, in a middle-class community with two loving parents, both immigrants from India, and a wonderful sister. That JD and I could meet at all, let alone fall in love and marry, is a testament to this great country."
In one of the interviews, Usha Vance said, "I did grow up in a religious household. My parents are Hindu and that is one of the things that made them such good parents, that made them good people. And so, I have seen the power of that," Reuters said.
Usha Vance described JD Vance as a "meat and potatoes kind of guy," but one who had adapted to her vegetarian diet and even learned how to cook Indian food for her mother, according to the BBC.
USA Today After law school, Usha Vance clerked for a year for Brett Kavanaugh on the District of Columbia court of appeals. Kavanaugh is now a U.S. Supreme Court justice.
She then she clerked for another year with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
In 2015, Usha Vance worked as an associate and then as a corporate litigator at Munger, Tolles and Olson, a law firm with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington that describes its corporate culture as “radically progressive." Her profile describes her as “a skilled litigator specializing in complex civil litigation and appeals in higher education, local government and technology sectors”
GHHF wish them a successful term, and may God bless them to serve the country and hope she will exemplify the richness of the oldest time-tested ancient culture.