Judi Nash [n�e 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 pageant. She was crowned in a white, gold embroidered organza dress custom made by Alyce Hamm of Alyce Designs. 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. 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, 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. At Illinois she became a member of Delta Gamma Sorority. 

December 26th, 1949 in Belvidere (Age 74)