Abby McDeere is Mitch McDeere's wife. Abby was raised in a small town in Kentucky by parents who remain happily married. Abby envisions her and Mitch settling into small town life with a home and children someday. She is happy to wait, though. After they both graduated from Western Kentucky, she accompanied Mitch to Boston, where he enrolled in Harvard's law school. Abby supported Mitch and worked as a teacher in a grammar school near Boston College.