Janey Lee Gohl (born August 18, 1956) is a beauty queen from

St. Cloud, Minnesota St. Cloud is a city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the largest population center in the state's central region. The population was 68,881 at the 2020 census, making it Minnesota's 12th-largest city. St. Cloud is the county seat of Stear ...

who has competed in the Miss USA pageant. Gohl was born to Roger and Bernice Bromenschenkel Gohl. She has three sisters, Diane, Sandra, and Sharon, and two brothers, Roger and John. Gohl won the

Miss Minnesota USA The Miss Minnesota USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Minnesota in the Miss USA pageant. It is directed by Future Productions based in Savage, Minnesota since its inception in 1995, which also direc ...

1978 title in her first attempt and represented Minnesota at the Miss USA 1978 pageant in Charleston, South Carolina. Gohl graduated from Cathedral High School in 1974 and attained a Bachelor of Arts degree in

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from

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the same weekend she won her state title. In 1983, she earned a

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from William Mitchell College of Law in

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. In 2002, she added to her academic credentials a

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in Organization Development (MSOD) from Pepperdine University's top-ranked MSOD program. She works in the

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/ Organization Development field.

References

External links

Miss Minnesota USA official websiteMiss USA official website

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