Tamara Lynne Hilliard (née Hext; born May 1, 1963) is a beauty queen from
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...
who has competed at
Miss America.
Hext won the title
Miss Texas
The Miss Texas competition was founded in 1937 as a scholarship contest for young women. The winner represents Texas in the Miss America pageant; three winners have gone on to be crowned Miss America (but none since 1975).
To become Miss Texa ...
1984, after competing in that pageant as Miss Arlington. She went on to become a finalist in the nationally televised Miss America pageant that same year, and finished as the 4th runner up.
[(16 September 1984)]
Miss Utah New Miss America
'' Spartanburg Herald-Journal'' (Associated Press) Tamara attended Vidor High School.
Tamara Hext also was a film actress. Hext appeared in a co-starring role in a horror-film called "
Through the Fire" (1988).
Personal
Hext is married to Jim Hilliard, who played for the
Texas Longhorns football
The Texas Longhorns football program is the intercollegiate team representing the University of Texas at Austin (variously Texas or UT) in the sport of American football. The Longhorns compete in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision ...
team and was an orthopedic surgeon for 35 years. In March 2018, Jim Hilliard was diagnosed with
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The couple raised three sons,
the youngest of whom,
Sam Hilliard, is a professional baseball player.
References
External links
*
1963 births
Living people
Miss America 1980s delegates
Miss America Preliminary Swimsuit winners
{{Texas-bio-stub