Susan Ray Schmidt

Susan Ray Schmidt (née Ray, born 1953) is an American author, activist and lecturer, notable for her memoir and anti-polygamy activism.

Schmidt's memoir, Favorite Wife: Escape from Polygamy, describes the abuses she suffered while practicing polygamy and adopts a firm anti-polygamy stance. It details leaving Mormon fundamentalism for mainstream Christianity and her beliefs on spirituality.

Schmidt had five children with LeBaron, the first being born just before her sixteenth birthday. At age 23, Schmidt escaped from the fundamentalist sect and moved back up to Southern Utah with her five children. Self described as "naive and uneducated", Schmidt eventually graduated high school and then college. During her marriage to LeBaron, Schmidt was sister-wife of fellow author Irene Spencer and sister-in-law to Ervil LeBaron, Rena Chynoweth and Joel LeBaron. She has also appeared on Rachael Ray, Anderson Live with Anderson Cooper, and the television show Polygamy: What Love Is This?.

Schmidt currently is lobbying the LDS Church to provide aid to those that leave polygamy and speaks at seminars and churches.