Barbara R. Metzler graduated from the University of Southern California and received a masters in psychology/counseling from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. As an entrepreneur involved in the Young Presidents’ Organization,she has started five companies including a multi-million dollar corporation,
The Farmer’s Wife. In the 1980s, it was the country’s leading manufacturer offruit by-products, developing and selling fruit that her husband’s large agriculturalfarm was throwing away. She is active in her church and in many localand national non-profit organizations and resides in San Diego with her husbandof thirty years.