Lynnette Cole-O'Nan, won the title Miss Tennessee USA in 2000. She went on to become the first woman from that state to win the Miss USA pageant, which was held in Branson, Missouri on February 4, 2000. Cole hails from Columbia, Tennessee and was twenty-one years old when she won the national crown. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lynnette Cole, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.