Jennifer Lynn Farrell held the title of Miss New Jersey

Miss New Jersey

.The Miss New Jersey competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of New Jersey in the Miss America pageant.Two Miss New Jersey winners have gone on to become Miss America titleholders: Bette Cooper and Suzette Charles...

 2003 and placed in the Top 15 at the Miss America 2004

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 pageant held in Atlantic City, New Jersey

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. She competed at Miss New Jersey

Miss New Jersey

.The Miss New Jersey competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of New Jersey in the Miss America pageant.Two Miss New Jersey winners have gone on to become Miss America titleholders: Bette Cooper and Suzette Charles...

 as Miss Atlantic County and won the pageant on her first try. At the time of the Miss America

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 pageant, she was a 19-year-old Spanish

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/Education

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 major at Rutgers University

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. Her platform was Adoption

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 as an Option and she choose this as her platform because she was adopted. Her talent was Ballet

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 en Pointe. She was the youngest adoption specialist in the United States

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, an honor given to her by the National Adoption Council. She has interned for the Family Law Department of the Superior Court of New Jersey and was the spokesperson for Safe Haven Laws. She was also named one of the 2005 Top 40 Under 40 by Atlantic City Weekly

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