In 2007, Vance left the military and used the G.I. Bill[25][26] to study at Ohio State University.[27] He graduated with highest honors in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and philosophy.[28] In 2010, Vance entered Yale Law School,[29] where he won a staff position on The Yale Law Journal and worked with a group of its editors who primarily checked citations.[30] Vance's future wife was the journal's executive developmental editor.[31] At Yale, he befriended fellow Ohio native and future Republican politician Vivek Ramaswamy.[32][33] During his first year, Professor Amy Chua persuaded Vance to begin writing his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.[8][34]
Vance also initiated a rapport with Peter Thiel after attending his 2011 talk at Yale.[30] In 2010–2011, Vance wrote for David Frum's "FrumForum" website under the name J. D. Hamel.[35][36] Although Hillbilly Elegy states that he adopted his grandparents' surname of Vance upon his marriage in 2014,[8][37] the name change actually occurred in April 2013 (his full name therefore changing to James David Vance), as he was about to graduate from Yale.[1][30] Vance obtained his Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in May 2013 and was admitted to the bar in Kentucky later that year.[38]
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