The newly coronated Tennessee Junior Miss 2008 Chandler Lawson of Tullahoma visits with her supporters moments after winning the state medallion Saturday night at the 50th anniversary program
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America's Junior Miss 2007 Nora Ali of Minnesota spends time with Kristin Steele prior to the Saturday finals of the 2008 Tennessee Junior Miss program at the Tivoli. Miss Ali was making her first apperarance at a state program since winning the national title last month. Miss Steele is the granddaughter of East Ridge Mayor Mike Steele, who with his wife, Lynne, are the former executive directors of the Tennessee program.
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Tennessee Junior Miss 2007 Hannah Disterdick of Hixson embraces the 2008 winner Chandler Lawson of Tullahoma Saturday night at the Tivoli at the conclusion of the state finals
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Chandler Lawson's talent performance
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Katrina Quist of Knoxville
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Soddy-Daisy's Junior Miss Kelsey Bailey was honored with a preliminary award for academics. The Soddy-Daisy High School senior wants to study pediatric and neonatal medicine.
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Red Bank's Callie Johnson performs during the opening number at the final night of the 2008 Tennessee Junior Miss program. Miss Johnson, a senior at the Chattanooga High School for the Performing Arts, was an interview preliminary winner.
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Kelsie Bailey of Soddy-Daisy
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Chandler Lawson
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Signal Mountain's Jasmine Au answers a question during the self-expression segment of Saturday's Tennessee Junior Miss 2008 finals. Miss Au, a senior at Red Bank High School, finished as the first runner-up to winner Chandler Lawson of Cumberland Valley.
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Tullahoma's Junior Miss Sydney Burfitt, whose career ambition is to become an industrial engineer, won a self-expression preliminary award
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Stefanie Wittler, Soddy-Daisy's 2005 Junior Missand the current Miss Southeast Tennessee, presented her rendition of the Martina McBride hit "Anyway" on Saturday night at the 2008 Tennessee Junior Miss finals
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America's Junior Miss Nora Ali plays the classical violin piece "Zigeunerweisen" at the finals of the 2008 Tennessee Junior Miss Program Saturday evening at the Tivoli. Miss Ali made her first appearance at a state final since winning a $54,000 scholarship last month at the national contest in Mobile, Ala. The Harvard University bound freshman resides in Mendota Heights, Minn.
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Hannah Disterdick, Tennessee's Junior Miss 2007, presents an interview preliminary award to Red Bank's Callie Johnson, a senior at the Chattanooga Center for the Creative Arts
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Kelsey Bailey, Soddy-Daisy's 2007 Junior Miss, receives a scholastics preliminary award from Hannah Disterdick, the 2006 winner and Tennessee's Junior Miss 2007
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Sumner County's Allison Holland was the Overall Fitness Winner
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2008 Tennessee Junior Miss Chandler Lawson of Tullahoma High School with state board member John Vandagriff after receiving her third overall performance award. Miss Lawson won three of the five overall categories with victories in self expression, talent and interview. She also won a fourth preliminary award in scholastics.
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Outgoing Tennessee Junior Miss co-Executive Director Sandy Jenkins embraces Signal Mountain's Junior Miss Jasmine Au after the Red Bank High School senior was named first runner-up in the 2008 state program Saturday night.
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Chandler Lawson of Tullahoma is Tennessee Junior Miss 2008