What is Leanza Cornett?
[[File:Leanza Cornett (cropped).jpg|right|200px]] '''Eva Leanza Cornett''' (June 10, 1971 &ndash; October 28, 2020) was an [[Americans|American]] [[television personality]] and [[beauty pageant]] title holder. She was [[Miss Florida]] 1992 and later [[Miss America]] 1993. She was also a stage [[actress]]. As Miss America, Cornett was the first beauty queen to adopt [[AIDS]] prevention as the theme of her service year. She was earlier National Sweetheart 1991.<ref>{{cite web|title=Leanza Cornett Biography|publisher=Married Biography|url=https://marriedbiography.com/leanza-cornett-biography|access-date=August 18, 2018}}</ref> Cornett was married to [[Mark Steines]] from 1995 to 2013. After 17 years, they got [[divorce]]d.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mark Steines Splits from Wife Leanza Cornett|publisher=US Magazine|url=https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/mark-steines-splits-from-wife-leanza-cornett-how-hes-coping-2013281|access-date=August 18, 2018}}</ref> Cornett was born in [[Big Stone Gap, Virginia]]. She was later raised in [[Jacksonville, Florida]]. Cornett died on October 28, 2020 from a [[subdural hematoma]] caused by a fall at a Jacksonville hospital, aged 49.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Nelson |first1=Ryan |title=Miss America 1993 and Jacksonville native, Leanza Cornett, dies after brain injury from fall |url=https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/duval-county/miss-america-1993-jacksonville-native-leanza-cornett-recovering-after-brain-injury-fall/FP5GTDQKVVFJJA4JXYMS3PHHKQ/ |access-date=29 October 2020 |work=WJAX}}</ref> ==References== <references/> {{DEFAULTSORT:Cornett, Leanza}} [[Category:Actors from Jacksonville, Florida]] [[Category:Miss America winners]] [[Category:1971 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from subdural hematoma]] [[Category:Accidental deaths from falls in the United States]] [[Category:American stage actors]] [[Category:Actors from Virginia]] [[Category:American models]]