Susan Perkins

{{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
Miss Ohio 1977
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 in 1978.{{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=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}}

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.{{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}}