by SeoJin Ahn

Kilmarnock resident Rebecca Tebbs Nunn has been crowned queen at the 2016 Ms. Virginia Senior America Pageant on July 14 in Falls Church. She will represent Virginia at the Ms. Senior America Pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey on October 18 – 20 this fall. Eight contestants competed in four categories for this year’s title.

Nunn’s talent category was her dramatic presentation of Portia’s pleading to Brutus from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Nunn, an honors graduate of Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, is currently serving as Vice-Mayor of Kilmarnock.

She is author with four published novels as well as an accomplished actress who has performed for radios, television commercials, dinner theaters and community theaters. She continues to teach and direct at community and children’s theaters.