Jamie Breeding

A resident of Lexington, Kentucky, Jamie is the CEO/Executive Director of the Miss Kentucky Pageant. He has been involved with the Miss America Program for over twenty years and has also served as a board member of the National Association of Miss America State Pageants board. In his professional career, Mr. Breeding has always worked in the field of Human Services, managing various social services and is currently the administer of a Scholars Program for gifted youth in the central Kentucky area. Following a special appointment by the Governor, Mr. Breeding is most proud of helping to establish juvenile and family courts throughout the state of Kentucky.

Judy Burt

Judy Dennis Burt has been a producer for the Louisiana Peach Festival Pageant for the past 34 years and the Miss Louisiana Teen Pageant for the past 12 years. She is also the Executive Director of the Miss Ark-La-Miss Fair Pageant. Judy’s pageant judging experiences include pageants in Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas. Additionally she has served on panel at the winter meeting for the Miss America Pageant, Miss America’s Outstanding Teen Pageant Steering Committee and a Board member for the Boys and Girls Club, Dixie Center for the Arts, North Louisiana Military Museum, and Louisiana Delta Ballet. Judy received the 2005 Community Service Award presented by the Ruston/Lincoln Chamber of Commerce. Currently, she is the Director of the Ruston Civic Center and Ruston Main Street Director in Ruston, Louisiana where she resides with her husband Bob.

Pat Hopson

An Art and Design major, Pat Hopson is now retired from a successful swimsuit business were she served as President and Designer. She has won three of television’s coveted Emmys for her work as producer of the Miss Mississippi Pageant. She presently serves as Vice President of the Miss Mississippi Corporation and has served as State Traveling Companion to the Miss America Pageant for twenty five years. She has served on the Governor’s Council on Women’s Issues for Mississippi and was named one of eight Mississippi women to receive the “power of one” award for humanitarian and community service. A Kappa Delta alum, life member of Ole Miss Alumni Association and active in Mississippi State medical Association, she also serves on the board of the Vicksburg Convention Center. A mother of four children and grandmother of ten, she and her husband, Dr. Briggs Hopson reside in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Alison McCreary

Alison McCreary is a graduate of Samford University with a degree in Human Development/Family Studies and a Masters degree in Early Childhood Education. She is the daughter of Marc and Donna McCreary of Florence, AL. After being crowned Miss Alabama in 1996, she went on to become third runner-up to Miss America 1997. For her work with Camp Newsong, a camp for grieving children, Alison won the $10,000 National Quality of Life award at Miss America 1997. Currently, she resides in Indianapolis, IN where she works for Eli Lilly & Co. as a Leadership Development Trainer.

David Mills

David C. Mills is Associate Director, State Policy and Legislative Affairs, at Vanderbilt University. A Historian and Political Scientist, David was elected to political office at age twenty-five. He has been written essays and speeches on the U.S. Constitution; Higher Education Administration and Policy; Biographical Essays; Contemporary Politics and International Affairs. David’s career includes service to the Tennessee General Assembly; Governor Ned McWherter; Tennessee Supreme Court; Tennessee Department of Education; and Fisk University. David and his wife Alisa have five children and three grandchildren.

John Moskal

John Moskal is a drama coach and actor, who makes his home in the Toluca Woods suburb of Los Angeles, California. He has guest starred on ARREST & TRIAL, CITY GUYS, DAYS OF OUT LIVES, KNOTS LANDING, BJ & THE BEAR and HART TO HART. He is mostly remembered for the recurring role of Treasury agent Peterson on the long running series HAPPY DAYS. He just closed a run of the critically acclaimed play MASTER GATE at the Actors Group Theater in the NO HO Arts District of Los Angeles. He teaches two performance classes for two school districts and was named one of the Top Ten Vocational Teachers in California in 1992.He graduated from Saint Leo College and worked on his Masters in Theater with Florida State University at the Asolo Repertory Theater in Sarasota. John has judged pageant in 23 states and has had six in the TOP FIVE at Miss America in the last nine years! A former runner, John has completed the first 15 Los Angeles Marathons.