Loveta Cheralyn "Chera-Lyn" Cook (born October 7, 1976) is an American crowned

Miss Kentucky The Miss Kentucky competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Kentucky Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeas ...

1998, was the first young woman from southeast

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to win the Miss Kentucky title.

Pageants

Representing the title of Miss Lexington, but claiming

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, as her hometown, Cook had previously held several titles, including Miss Central Kentucky, Miss Fayette County, Miss Monticello, Miss Southeast Kentucky,

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, and National All American Teen. A double preliminary winner at Miss Kentucky, Cook won talent preliminary and placed 4th runner-up to Miss America 1999.

Awards and recognitions

Cook was recognized by the Joint Sessions of the Kentucky Legislature for volunteer work with at-risk youth and was the Kentucky School Psychologist of the Year in 2004. Her platform issue at

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, was later adopted by the Miss America Scholarship Organization as a national platform. She was also a Goodwill Ambassador for the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

References

External links

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'Blue' album on iTunes
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