Lynnette Marie O'Nan (née Cole) is an American director, former model and beauty pageant titleholder who won the title Miss Tennessee USA 2000.
Cole is from Columbia, Tennessee and was twenty-one years old when she won the national crown.
[2] Cole's first major pageant win came in 1995 when she won the title Miss Tennessee Teen USA.
Cole went on to compete at the Miss Universe pageant, held in Nicosia, Cyprus later that year.
[4] Her performance was enough to secure her a spot among the five finalists,[5] and brought the US back into the semifinals (after Kimberly Pressler had failed to advance the year before, breaking a streak of consecutive placements that had been going since 1977).