Who is Usha Vance, lawyer and wife of Trump's VP pick?

As JD Vance walked on to the RNC convention floor to accept the party’s vice-presidential nomination on Monday, speakers lined up to lavish praise on his impeccable credentials.

But the Ohio senator and running mate of Republican White House candidate Donald Trump has previously said he feels “humbled” by the stellar CV of his wife, Usha Vance.

While she does not seek out the political spotlight, Mrs Vance, 38, wields considerable influence over her husband’s career, he has said. In an interview on Fox News last month, she said: "I believe in JD, and I really love him, and so we’ll just sort of see what happens with our life."

The two met as students at Yale Law School in 2013, when they joined a discussion group on “social decline in white America”, according to the New York Times. The content influenced Mr Vance's best-selling 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy, about his childhood in the white working-class Rust Belt, which became a 2020 movie directed by Ron Howard.