University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student Margertha Consona McLean, 23, of Madison, was chosen as Miss South Shore 2008 last weekend at the Marian Center for Non-Profits in Milwaukee. McLean becomes the first black woman to win the crown.
In the talent portion of the event, McLean sang “God Bless The Child.” She is a 2006 molecular biology graduate of Tennessee State University in Nashville and is a Ph.D. physiology graduate student and research assistant at UW-Madison.
She now advances to the 2008 Miss Wisconsin pageant, June 21 in Oshkosh.