Jillian Parry (born January 31, 1982) is a former
Miss Teen USA, having held the title for the year 2000, representing her home town of
Newtown and state of
Pennsylvania. She was the first titleholder from Pennsylvania to win the national competition.
Parry entered the
Miss Pennsylvania Teen USA pageant on a whim, after a postcard was dropped in her mail, and won on her first attempt. Parry represented her state at the Miss Teen USA pageant televised live from
Shreveport, Louisiana
Shreveport ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is the third most populous city in Louisiana after New Orleans and Baton Rouge, respectively. The Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area, with a population of 393,406 in 2020, is t ...
on August 26, 2000.
Parry won the pageant and was crowned Miss Teen USA 2000 based on her answer to the final interview question, and she came in first place in the evening gown competition. She came in second behind Nicole O'Brian of
Texas in the swimsuit competition. She was crowned by
Ashley Coleman
Ashley Coleman (born 10 November 1981) is a former Miss Teen USA who won in 1999, representing her hometown of Camden and the state of Delaware. Coleman graduated from Caesar Rodney High School in 1999. Before winning her state title, she had mo ...
of
Delaware, Miss Teen USA 1999.
As Miss Teen USA, Parry represented the
Miss Universe Organization. Her "sister" 2000 titleholders were
Lynnette Cole (
Miss USA, from Tennessee) and
Lara Dutta (
Miss Universe, of India). She passed her title on to her successor,
Marissa Whitley of
Missouri, on August 22, 2001.
She completed her Ph.D. in Public Health with a focus on Health Policy at the
Johns Hopkins University in 2012 following a Master's in Public Health from the
University of New Mexico in 2007 and a B.S. in Biobehavioral Health from
Penn State University
The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a public state-related land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania. Founded in 1855 as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania, Penn State became ...
in 2004. In June, 2006, Parry married Roderick Fry, a physical chemist from Kendall, New York. They were married in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, in a Quaker ceremony.
Parry has been a vegan since 2002, and she is an active public health scientist in the field of
environmental health policy
Environmental health policy is the interplay between the environment and health, and how the environment can affect human health. Policies are created by governments and organizations where they see the issues arising in the health of their jurisd ...
.
References
External links
Miss Pennsylvania Teen USA official siteMiss Teen USA official site
Living people
Miss Teen USA winners
University of New Mexico alumni
Johns Hopkins University alumni
2000 beauty pageant contestants
20th-century Miss Teen USA delegates
People from Bucks County, Pennsylvania
1982 births
20th-century American people
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