Clarissa Vaughn Polk and Tushin Parthiv Shah were married June 14 at Trinity Church in Princeton followed by a Hindu ceremony at the Hyatt Regency in West Windsor. According to the New York Times, they are both graduates of Colgate University and received law degrees from Washington University in St. Louis.
A lawyer for Emerson Electric Company in St. Louis, she reviews supply chain contracts. The bride’s father, Charles E. Polk, a retired lawyer in St. Louis and a captain in the Army Reserve at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri, was a special assistant to John Ashcroft when he was attorney general. Her mother, Cheryl D. Polk, is an independent management consultant in St. Louis.
A graduate of High School North, Shah is an associate in the Houston office of the law firm Kirkland & Ellis. His parents live in West Windsor. His mother, Monica P. Shah, is a teacher at Montessori Keyboard Kids in North Brunswick. His father, Parthiv D. Shah, works in Malvern, Pennsylvania, as a principal consultant in the health care division of Siemens, the German electronics and industrial products company.
