Judith Ford

Judith Ford
Judith Ford Nash in 2015 at an autograph session during Miss American Pageant weekend.
Born	Judith Anne Ford Belvidere, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality	American
Other names	Miss America, Miss Illinois
Alma mater	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Western Illinois University
Occupation	Athletic teacher and coach
Known for	Winning Miss Illinois and Winning Miss America
Title	Miss America 1969
Predecessor	Debra Dene Barnes
Successor	Pamela Eldred
Spouse(s)	James Nash

Judi Nash [née Judith Anne Ford] is a retired teacher who was Miss America 1969. Ford qualified to compete in the Miss America pageant by winning first the title of Miss Boone County and then the Miss Illinois 1968 pageant. Ford was a world-class trampolinist at the time of the pageant, and used her skills on the trampoline for her performance in the talent portion of the competition—the only Miss America contestant ever to compete using the trampoline.^[1]

Ford had won the Miss Illinois Teenager Pageant while she attended Belvidere High School, in Belvidere, Illinois. After graduating from high school, she spent her freshman year of college at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, (then called the University of Southwestern Louisiana), to train under the expertise of trampoline coach Jeff Hennessy. After her freshmen year she took time off from her studies to compete in the Miss America pageant and its preliminaries. Following her year off, she transferred to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she received her bachelor's degree in physical education. She later in life earned a master's degree in physical education from Western Illinois University.

She served on the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports for eight years, appointed by Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. She was an elementary physical education teacher and is now retired, but still coaches golf and basketball. She is married to James Nash, an attorney in Geneseo, Illinois.

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References

↑ http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2004/aug/01/miss_america_drops/

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Debra Dene Barnes	Miss America 1969	Succeeded by Pamela Eldred
Preceded by Kathryn Myers	Miss Illinois 1968	Succeeded by Sharon Mitchell

Miss America titleholders (1960–1979)

Illinois pageant winners

Miss Illinois	Lois Delander (1927) Judith Ford (1968) Karen Moncrieff (1985) Jeri Zimmermann (1989) Marjorie Vincent (1990) Chuti Tiu (1994) Katherine Shindle (1997) Jade Smalls (1999) Jenny Powers (2000) Erika Harold (2002) Crystal Davis (2015)

Miss Illinois USA	Myrna Hansen (1953) Marianne Gaba (1957) Patricia Thompson (1960) Marite Ozers (1963) Amanda Jones (1973) Karen Morrison (1974) Lisa Morgan (1991) Amanda Reynolds (2002) Jill Gulseth (2005) Catherine Warren (2006) Mia Heaston (2007) Renee Wronecki (2015)

Miss Illinois Teen USA	Cherise Haugen (1984) Charlotte Martin (1994) Nicole Manske (1998)

Miss America

1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Titleholders Award winners Outstanding Teen MAOT State pageants

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