Kelley Johnson

Kelley Johnson, born Kelley Elizabeth Johnson on 22 October 1992 in Fort Collins, Colorado, is an American registered nurse, television host and beauty pageant titleholder who also serves as a Chief Nurse Advocate and national spokeswoman for the profession. She graduated from Grand View University in 2015 with a nursing degree and was valedictorian of her class. Crowned Miss Colorado 2015, she competed at Miss America 2016, where she performed a monologue about a patient with Alzheimer's disease she had cared for, and finished as second runner-up. Remarks about that nursing monologue on a television talk show on 14 September 2015 drew a wide backlash from nurses and led some advertisers to pull their ads. She later won Miss California USA 2018 and placed in the top ten at Miss USA 2018. She is a doctoral student and keynote speaker, and she trained toward becoming a nurse anesthetist.