Brooke Shearer
Brooke Lloyd Shearer (July 28, 1950 – May 19, 2009) was an American private investigator, journalist,[1] employee of the U.S. Department of the Interior, aide to Hillary Clinton, and wife of long-time Brookings Institution president Strobe Talbott.In 1971, she graduated with a bachelor's degree and married Strobe Talbott, who was the roommate of her brother Derek Shearer.[2] Shearer wrote stories for The Christian Science Monitor and the British publication The Sunday Times while in Eastern Europe.Brooke Shearer began assisting Sylvia Porter after she and her husband moved to Washington, D.C. in 1974.When Bill Clinton became president of the United States in 1993 Shearer was put in charge of the White House Fellows.