Cynthia McFaden (born May 27, 1956 in Lewiston, Maine) is a correspondent for ABC News. McFadden currently co-anchors Nightline and Primetime. McFadden graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Bowdoin College in 1978. She received her law degree from Columbia University. She has been divorced twice and has a son, Spencer Graham McFadden Hoge, who was born in 1998 and was named after the late actor, Spencer Tracy. McFadden is also the executor of the estate of longtime friend Katharine Hepburn. She has Crohn's disease and has done public service announcements to raise awareness of the condition.