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 in the Miss America pageant. Kentucky has once won the Miss America crown.
Multiple Miss Kentucky titleholders have gone on to make themselv ...
1998,
was the first young woman from southeast
Kentucky
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to win the Miss Kentucky title.
Pageants
Representing the title of Miss Lexington, but claiming
London, Kentucky
London is a home rule-class city in Laurel County, Kentucky, in the United States. It is the seat of its county. The population was 7,993 at the time of the 2010 census. It is the second-largest city named "London" in the United States and the ...
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
Miss America,
Children's Miracle Network
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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
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'Blue' album on iTunes
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1976 births
Living people
Beauty pageants in Kentucky
Miss America 1999 delegates
People from London, Kentucky
Miss Kentucky winners
20th-century American people
21st-century American women