Sally Perdue (also known asSally Miller andMyra Belle Miller)[1] is a former 1958Miss Arkansas andLittle Rock radio talk show host.[2][3][4] She was a top-10 finalist in the 1958Miss America pageant.[5]
Miller is a 1960 graduate ofLindenwood College.
Fulfilling a childhood dream, Perdue traveled the length of theGreat Wall of China on foot in 1990.[6]
She was awarded Lindenwood's 1991 Alumni Merit Award for professional accomplishment.[7]
In 1994, Perdue stated that she had had an affair with then-GovernorBill Clinton of Arkansas in 1983.[4] She is one of three former holders of the Miss Arkansas title to have been extramaritally linked to Clinton.[4] She also stated toAmbrose Evans-Pritchard ofThe Sunday Telegraph that she had been asked not to reveal the affair by a formerDemocratic staffer in 1992, who supposedly told her that "they knew that I went jogging by myself and he couldn't guarantee what would happen to my pretty little legs."[8]
In 2005, Perdue settled a lawsuit over her dismissal from employment at theFriends School inWest Chester, Pennsylvania.[3]
She earned a master's degree in Education fromRegent University, Washington (D. C.) Campus, in 2006.[citation needed]
| Awards and achievements | ||
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| Preceded by Suzanne Scudder | Miss Arkansas 1958 | Succeeded by Suzanne Jackson |
Arkansas pageant winners | |
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| Miss Arkansas |
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| Miss Arkansas USA |
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| Miss Arkansas Teen USA |
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| Miss Arkansas' Outstanding Teen |
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