Jeanne Lenhart

Early life and education Lenhart grew up in Mission Beach and attended Mission Bay High School. She attended Mesa College for two years, where she played on the volleyball team and was a cheerleader. She then graduated from San Diego State University, majoring in physical education and playing on the Aztec women's volleyball team. She also holds a degree in Interior Design.

Career Lenhart taught dance at the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts and coached gymnastics at San Diego High School.

She was named Ms. Senior San Diego 2012 at its February 2012 pageant. She won first runner up in March 2013 in the Ms. Senior Inland Empire 2013, advancing to the state pageant to compete for the 2013 title of Ms. Senior California. She was named 4th runner up in the Ms. Senior California Pageant in Westminster on August 31, 2013.

Since 2012, she has been a cast member in the annual theater performance of Senior Follies at the Lincoln Performing Arts Center in San Diego.

Lenhart opened an interior design business, Mission Design, in 1993.

Athletics In 1964, she won the title Miss Surf in a surfing competition and Miss Quivira Basin in a sailing race.

In 2012, her volleyball team placed 2nd in the 2013 USA Volleyball Open Championships in the Women’s 65 and Over category. Also in 2012, she competed in the US Open Nationals. Her brother, Jeff Lenhart, is a competitive sailor on U.S. sailing teams.

For 60 years, on her birthday, she has ridden the Giant Dipper Roller Coaster in Mission Beach to commemorate the day.

Lenhart lives in Pacific Beach, a coastal neighborhood of San Diego.