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Sharlene Wells Hawkes, Miss America 2017 Judge

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Hawkes was born in Asuncion, Paraguay, and spent a majority of her childhood in Mexico, Chile, and Ecuador-- she is the fist foreign-born, bilingual Miss America. A book about her life was published the year she won the crown. (Getty)

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Former Miss America 1985, Sharlene Wells Hawkes, will be one of the judges at the Miss America 2017 pageant on Sunday.