Erika Harold

Erika Harold
Harold in St. Louis, Missouri, in January 2014
Born	Erika Natalie Louise Harold (1980-02-20) February 20, 1980 (age 44) Urbana, Illinois, US
Education	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (BA) Harvard University (JD)
Title	Miss Illinois 2002 Miss America 2003
Predecessor	Katie Harman
Successor	Ericka Dunlap
Political party	Republican

Erika Natalie Louise Harold (born February 20, 1980) is an American attorney, politician, and former Miss America.

Harold was Miss Illinois 2002 and Miss America 2003. Her pageant platform was combating bullying. In 2014, she was a candidate in the Republican primary for the 13th Congressional District seat in the State of Illinois, ultimately losing the nomination to the incumbent, Rodney Davis.^[1] In the 2018 election, she was the Republican nominee for Illinois Attorney General.^[2]