Long-time Kings Park West resident Debbi Miller has reigned for the past year as Ms. Virginia Senior America 2013. Miller represented the Commonwealth of Virginia in the national Ms. Senior America pageant in Atlantic City, and throughout the year she has traveled throughout the state performing at senior centers, fairs, and senior expos. She has been interviewed on TV three times, in Fairfax and in Roanoke. She opened the Northern Virginia Senior Olympics singing the national anthem, and did the same for the Virginia senior games in Newport News. She also won two silver medals in walking races. She has appeared in four parades (Alexandria, Middleburg, Staunton, and Waynesboro. She was awarded an Outstanding Senior certificate by the Fairfax County Senior Citizens Council, and was recognized in the Virginia General Assembly in Richmond with a resolution submitted by State Sen. Chap Petersen. She has been a motivational speaker for Shepherd's Center, and represented senior women in notable venues such as the US Department of State and the Marine Corps University's Man of the Year banquet.
Miller also won the Community Service Award for the Virginia pageant. She served KPWCA as its membership chair for seven years, for which she was awarded a Best of Braddock citation. She also volunteered for Boy Scout Troop 1000, TJHSST Band Boosters, RBOPO, and Church of the Good Shepherd. She is currently on the Boards of AAFSW and of the Good Shepherd Players.
Miller is a professional singer and a music teacher.
The Ms. Virginia Senior America pageant is open to residents of Virginia who are "60 or better," and it seeks to celebrate those women who have entered the "age of elegance." Miller will crown her successor on Saturday, July 19, in Staunton, at the auditorium of the Healy School for the Deaf and Blind, at 2 p.m.