Ellen Elizabeth "Elle" Smith (born June 19, 1998) is an American journalist and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss USA 2021.
[4][5] Smith graduated from Shawnee High School in 2016, where she was an honors student involved in choir, orchestra, volleyball, and drama.
[5][9][10] Smith first became interested in competing in pageantry after one of her high school classmates, Brittany Reid, was crowned Miss Ohio Teen USA 2013.
[5] She did not complete in a pageant herself until eight years later, when she entered and won Miss Kentucky USA 2021,[11] representing Germantown, Louisville.
[16][17][18] In the final question portion, Smith picked judge Ty Hunter, who asked "Sustainability is becoming more and more important in professional landscapes.