
The renowned San Francisco legal firm Munger, Tolles & Olson has announced that Usha Chilukuri Vance, who is married to Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, has resigned from her position as a corporate litigator.
Just hours after Trump announced on July 15th that he would be running for president with J.D. as his Vice President, Usha’s biography disappeared from the company’s website.
In response to a question about the removal of her bio, Sara Rosenblit, a firm representative, said that Usha was departing from the law firm. Usha said that she had chosen to depart. The firm appreciated all of Usha’s hard work over the years as a lawyer and colleague and hoped she would have the greatest success in the future.
Usha Vance shared her announced resignation in an independent statement to the media.
Usha announced her resignation from Munger, Tolles & Olson, citing the recent news about her husband as the reason. She plans to devote her time and energy to taking care of her family. The opportunities she had at Munger, as well as the wonderful friends and coworkers she had met there, would be in her heart forever.
Usha worked out of the firm’s San Francisco and D.C. offices, where she handled complicated litigation and appeals for clients in a wide variety of industries, including education, government, the entertainment industry, and technology.
Beyond her role at the business, Usha has clerked for both U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his time as a judge for the D.C. Circuit. Also, according to her biography, when Amul Thapar was a judge for the Sixth Circuit, she clerked for him in the Eastern District of Kentucky US District Court. Thapar is currently a judge for the US Court of Appeals.
Candidates should have served as clerks for federal courts of appeals before being considered for a position on the United States Supreme Court. A clerkship at the United States Supreme Court is believed to be the most common outcome for judges in certain courts, notably the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. The qualifications of those chosen for these roles are often exceptional.