Beauty Maryland, Nana Meriwether as the new Miss USA 2012

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With Olivia Culpo winning the Miss Universe 2012 tittle, Maryland’s Nana Meriwether will become the new Miss USA 2012! She will crown her successor at the end of Miss USA 2013 beauty pageant.

Nana Meriwether (born May 24, 1985) is an American beauty pageant titleholder. Meriwether was selected as Miss Maryland USA for 2012, and was first runner-up in the Miss USA 2012 pageant. With the ascension of Olivia Culpo to the Miss Universe 2012 crown on December 19, 2012, Meriwether assumed the title of Miss USA.

Meriwether is the Second titleholder form Maryland to crown Miss USA title.

Born in South Africa while her parents were doing volunteer work, she was raised in Potomac, Maryland and is a 2003 graduate of Sidwell Friends School. She attended Duke University for one semester, where her father Delano Meriwether had been the first African-American medical student. She transferred to UCLA in 2004, where she graduated and was twice-named an All-American in volleyball. She then started graduate school at USC. She previously participated in California pageants (2008-2011), and finished as high as second.