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{{Short description|American model, singer and reporter}}
{{about|Miss America 1978|the American microbiologist|Susan Perkins (scientist)|the English comedian|Sue Perkins}}
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|name          = Susan Yvonne Perkins Botsford
|image         = Miss America Susan Yvonne Perkins, 1977.jpg
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|caption       = Perkins returns to her home town as Miss America, in 1977
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|birth_date    = {{Birth date and age|1954|04|28}}
|birth_place   = [[Middletown, Ohio]], U.S.
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|occupation    = Professional singer, spokesperson, television reporter
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|title         = Miss Clayland 1977<br>[[Miss Ohio]] 1977<br>[[Miss America 1978]]
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|predecessor   = [[Dorothy Benham]]
|successor     = [[Kylene Barker]]
|spouse        = {{marriage |Alan C. Botsford Jr.|1979}} 
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'''Susan Perkins Botsford''' (born April 28, 1954), a native of [[Middletown, Ohio]], is a pageant winner who was crowned [[Miss America 1978|Miss America in 1978]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NPAPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=B40DAAAAIBAJ&pg=4070,1603965&dq=susan+perkins&hl=en|title=There she is, Miss Ohio|date=September 12, 1977|work=[[Boca Raton News]]|publisher=[[United Press International|UPI]]|pages=3A|accessdate=15 March 2010|archive-date=8 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191208094103/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NPAPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=B40DAAAAIBAJ&pg=4070,1603965&dq=susan+perkins&hl=en|url-status=dead}}</ref>

She has been a professional singer, spokesperson, and television reporter. Susan walked in the [[New York Marathon]] with the [[Achilles Club]] (which serves disabled and senior athletes) as a guide for an 80-year-old former Marine Colonel. She has participated in many volunteer activities supporting U.S. veterans, and in 2009 she toured Iraq with two other former Miss Americas.

Perkins Botsford was selected to the panel of judges for the preliminary competition of the [[Miss America 2018]] pageant.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/missamerica/miss-america-preliminary-judges-announced/article_20b079f9-ed2b-5847-be2c-dd6cf912f149.html|title=Miss America preliminary judges announced|date=August 1, 2017|access-date=April 21, 2025|archive-date=March 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180310191608/http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/missamerica/miss-america-preliminary-judges-announced/article_20b079f9-ed2b-5847-be2c-dd6cf912f149.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Personal life==
She married Alan C. Botsford Jr., the president of Benson Botsford LLC,  in May 1979.<ref name="People people">{{cite web |first1=Michelle |last1=Tauber |first2=Mike |last2=Neill |first3=Lisa |last3=Russell |first4=Joanne |last4=Fowler |first5=Julie |last5=Dam |first6=Alex |last6=Tresniowski |first7=Samantha |last7=Miller |first8=Steve |last8=Dougherty |first9=Ting |last9=Yu |title=American Beauties: 80 Years |work=People |url=https://people.com/archive/american-beauties-80-years-vol-54-no-16/ |date=October 16, 2000 |access-date=April 21, 2025 |archive-date=October 1, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001031114/https://people.com/archive/american-beauties-80-years-vol-54-no-16/ |url-status=live }}</ref> They reside in [[Boston, Massachusetts]] and [[Cape Cod]]. Together they have two children, Trip and Brooke. Brooke is married to William Sinclair.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bravuramagazine.com/2017/07/31/miss-america-announces-the-preliminary-competition-week-judges-for-the-non-broadcast-segment-of-the-97th-miss-america-competition/|title=Miss America Announces the "Preliminary Competition Week" Judges for the Non-Broadcast Segment of the 97th Miss America Competition|date=July 31, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/lifestyles/wedding-brooke-suzanne-botsford-william-christopher-sinclair/CYi2x6drngQP1jrkTix3QN/|title=Wedding: Brooke Suzanne Botsford, William Christopher Sinclair|date=November 15, 2015}}</ref>

==References==
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{{MissAmericas 1960–1979}}
{{Miss America}}
{{Ohio Pageant Winners}}
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[[Category:People from Weston, Massachusetts]]


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