People's Choice voting now open for Miss Volunteer America 2027
Fans nationwide can cast their vote through Friday, June 19, at 9 p.m. ET; Winner Automatically Advances to the National Semifinals
JACKSON, Tenn. – It's time to make your voice heard! Voting is now officially underway for the Miss Volunteer America People's Choice Award, giving fans and supporters across the country the opportunity to help one deserving contestant secure a coveted spot in the national semifinals.
Voting will remain open through Friday, June 19, at 9 p.m. ET, and the contestant who receives the most votes will automatically advance to the semifinal round during the fifth national competition at the Carl Perkins Civic Center in Jackson, Tennessee. Cast your vote now at www.missvolunteeramerica.net/vote.
With 51 state titleholders from across the country competing, the People's Choice vote is your chance to support your favorite young woman as she vies for the title of Miss Volunteer America 2027. Each vote helps shine a spotlight on the outstanding achievements, character, and community service of this year's national class.
This year marks a milestone fifth national competition for Miss Volunteer America, a service-based scholarship organization founded in 2022 by Jackson, Tennessee native Allison DeMarcus. Since its launch, the organization has awarded more than $1.5 million in scholarships at the local, state, and national levels, with more than $150,000 in scholarship opportunities available at each national competition, money awarded not just to the titleholder, but to state titleholders competing from across the country. This June, the organization will officially welcome its 500th national contestant.
Throughout the week-long competition at the historic Carl Perkins Civic Center, contestants will participate in Talent, Interview, Evening Gown, and Fitness & Wellness categories, all while exemplifying the organization's core values: Scholarship, Education, Responsibility, Volunteerism, and Empowerment.
Community service remains central to the Miss Volunteer America experience. Through its partnership with The Salvation Army, titleholders have contributed thousands of hours of service in communities across the country. Through its partnership with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, contestants and supporters have raised more than $332,000 over the past two years, with every dollar going directly to the children and families served by the hospital.
The reigning Miss Volunteer America will crown her successor on Saturday night during the finale at the Carl Perkins Civic Center in Jackson, Tennessee.
To cast your vote for the People's Choice winner, visit www.missvolunteeramerica.net/vote.
ABOUT MISS VOLUNTEER AMERICA:
Miss Volunteer America is a national scholarship pageant founded by Allison DeMarcus—entrepreneur, television personality, former Miss Tennessee, and wife of Rascal Flatts' Jay DeMarcus. With a vision to uplift and empower young women, DeMarcus created the organization to champion academic excellence, servant leadership, and personal development through a values-driven competition platform. The pageant emphasizes the importance of education, integrity, character, and volunteerism, and provides significant scholarship opportunities to its participants. Titleholders and contestants dedicate countless hours to community service while preparing to become tomorrow’s leaders. Miss Volunteer America continues to grow as a meaningful movement for young women across the country.
Learn more at www.missvolunteeramerica.net.
ABOUT ALLISON DEMARCUS:
Allison DeMarcus is a former Miss Tennessee Teen USA, Miss Tennessee America and Miss Tennessee USA and is the only woman in pageant history to represent the state of Tennessee at the Miss Teen USA, Miss America and Miss USA pageants. DeMarcus began working with Country Music Television in January 2007 when she co-hosted the Miss America Pageant with Mario Lopez and has worked as a television personality for Country Music Television for ten years.
Allison is married to Jay DeMarcus of the country music supergroup, Rascal Flatts. In 2020, Allison and Jay - along with their adorable children - warmed hearts in their own NETFLIX reality show, DeMarcus Family Rules.
Additionally, the couple has appeared together on The Chew, NASHVILLE, Good Morning America and Chrisley Knows Best.
When she is off camera, DeMarcus enjoys serving in her third year as President of the Board of Directors of Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital and recently finished chairing an $18M Pediatric Cancer Campaign. She also enjoys serving as a Board Member for the Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center’s Board of Overseers, Board member for the Memorial Foundation on the Grants Committee, as well as the Miss Tennessee Volunteer Pageant.
She formerly served on the Board of Directors for Cheekwood, The Women’s Fund, Sigma Epsilon Chi Omega Advisory Board at Vanderbilt, Chi Omega’s National Recruitment Team and the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Middle Tennessee, and has enjoyed volunteering for The Nashville Symphony, Sexual Assault Center, Swan Ball, Nashville Humane Association, Nashville Ballet, Second Harvest Food Bank, Nashville Alliance, Warner Parks, The Frist Center, Nashville Zoo and the Oasis Center.
Allison’s most important job is being a wife to Jay, and mother to Madeline and Dylan.
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