Merrie Spaeth is an American political and public relations consultant, and former film actress. She is a regular contributor to several periodicals, including D/CEO Magazine, in addition to her contributions to National Public Radio through radio station KERA in Dallas, Texas. Spaeth also teaches at the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University and is a frequent speaker at conferences around the U.S. A Philadelphia native, Spaeth graduated from Smith College in 1970, and from the Columbia Graduate School of Business in 1980. As a teenager, she appeared in the film The World of Henry Orient. Spaeth is a theorist and strategist in the field of communications. She writes a popular monthly newsletter, the BIMBO memo. She was the media contact for the 2004 group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, who opposed John Kerry's Presidential bid. Among Spaeth's accomplishments, in 1980, she served as a White House Fellow and assigned to Federal Bureau of Investigation Director William Webster. She was the first Fellow and one of the first two women on the director's staff. 

August 23rd, 1948 in Philadelphia (Age 76)