Lori Lynn Menshouse (born February 9, 1973) is an American

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and attorney from Ashland,

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who has competed in the

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and

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pageants.

Biography

Menshouse won the

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title in 1997 competing as Miss Ashland Area. She competed in the

pageant held in September that year but did not place. In 1998, less than a year after passing on her crown, Menshouse won the

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1999 title, becoming one of few women from Kentucky who have held both titles. She went on to represent Kentucky in the

1999 pageant held in

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on February 2, 1999. Menshouse did not place in the nationally televised pageant, which was won by

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. In 2001, Menshouse sued the Miss Kentucky Scholarship Organization for failing to provide her with the full $10,800 in scholarship money that she had been awarded for winning the pageant. Menshouse received her B.S., cum laude in biology with a minor in chemistry, in 1995 from

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. After working as a spokesperson for several organizations and companies, including the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, she received her J.D. from the

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in 2003. While at Kentucky Law, she was a William Mills Scholar, on the editorial board of the Journal of Natural Resources and Environmental Law, a member of the moot court board and received the

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award (highest grade in the class) in her patent class. She then became an associate in the Intellectual Property Litigation Group at the law firm of Alston and Bird in Atlanta, but she is no longer with the firm.

References

External links

Miss Kentucky official website

Miss Kentucky USA official website
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