Lencola Sullivan

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Lencola Sullivan was is a beauty queen from Morrilton, Arkansas who has competed in the Miss America pageant.

Sullivan won the Miss Arkansas title in July 1980 and represented Arkansas in the Miss America 1980 pageant held later that year in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Sullivan became the first African-American woman to win preliminary awards in the pageant and was also the first to place among the top five, where she was fourth runner-up.

Sullivan became a news reporter on KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas and later moved to New York City where she dated Stevie Wonder for a short period of time.[citation needed]

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Preceded by
Janet Holman		 Miss Arkansas
1980		 Succeeded by
Elizabeth Ward