Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) Eye color Blue Name Ashley Zais | Hair color Brown Major
competition(s) Miss USA 2007 (Top 15) Education Wofford College | |
Full Name Ashley Derham Zais Born March 12, 1987 (age 37)
Fort Lewis, Washington ( 1987-03-12 ) Title(s) Miss South Carolina USA 2007 Competitors Meagan Tandy, Rachel Smith, Amber Seyer, Casey Messer, Helen Salas | ||
Ashley Derham Zais (born 1987) in Fort Lewis, Washington) is an American beauty pageant titleholder from Newberry, South Carolina. She competed in the Miss USA pageant in 2007 and the Miss South Carolina Teen USA pageants from 2002–2003, making the semi-finals of the 2003 event and placing first runner-up at Miss South Carolina Teen USA 2004. In 2005 she competed in the Miss South Carolina USA pageant for the first time and in 2006 won the 2007 title.
Zais represented South Carolina in the nationally televised Miss USA 2007 pageant on March 23, 2007 and placed in the top 15.
Zais graduated from Wofford College. She was a recipient of the Palmetto Fellowship for academic excellence. Her professional modelling career has taken her to Tokyo, Japan.
In 2008, Zais served as the Summer Intern coordinator for the John McCain presidential campaign. After the election she took a job with the Decisive Analytics Corporation in Arlington, Virginia.
Ashley married former John McCain presidential campaign staffer Michael Culhane Harper, an attorney at Jones Day, on April 17, 2010. The couple currently lives in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where they welcomed their first child in 2013.