Madison Marsh, a 22-year-old master’s student in the Harvard Kennedy School’s public policy department and a second lieutenant in the US Air Force, won the 2024 Miss America pageant on Sunday night in Orlando, Florida. Marsh is the first-ever active-duty Air Force officer to win the national title, representing the state of Colorado.
Texas’s Ellie Breaux finished first runner-up.
Eleven participants from each of the 50 US states and the District of Columbia took part in the competition.
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The pageant followed three nights of preliminary competitions. At the beginning of the main event, the field was narrowed to 11 semi-finalists — 10 chosen by the preliminary judges, and one by a public vote open to pageant fans and followers across the United States.