Lori Menshouse

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Lori Menshouse was Miss Kentucky in 1997 and Miss Kentucky USA in 1999. She is one of few women from Kentucky who have competed at both Miss America and Miss USA. 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 is originally from Ashland, Kentucky, and received her B.S., cum laude in biology with, a minor in chemistry, in 1995 from Morehead State University. Prior to attending law school, she was the spokesperson for several organizations and companies, including the Kentucky Department of Agriculture.

Menshouse attended law school and received her J.D. from the University of Kentucky College of Law 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 CALI award (highest grade in the class) in her patent class. She then became an associate in the Intellectual Property Litigation Group at Alston and Bird in Atlanta.

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• Associated Press. "Former Miss Kentucky sues pageant committee", Cincinnati Enquirer, 2001-09-30. Retrieved on 2006-07-30.