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Salt lake city.
Sharlene Wells Hawkes
Paraguayan-American author, singer and reporter
Sharlene Wells (born March 16, 1964) is a Paraguayan-American author, singer, and reporter from Salt Lake City, Utah who was Miss America 1985.
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She worked with ESPN from 1987 to 2002 and was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Defense to the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Armed Forces in 2015.
Family and early life
Hawkes (née Wells), was born in Asunción, Paraguay and spent most of her childhood in Mexico, Chile and Ecuador.
She was the first foreign-born, bilingual Miss America.[1] She spent most of her teenaged years in Buenos Aires, Argentina.[2] When she won the Miss America title, her parents were living in Holladay, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City.
Being crowned Miss America was seen by some as an antidote to the scandal associated with the prior year's winner, Vanessa Williams.[3] In 1985, Deseret Book published a biography of Wells, written by Sheri Dew