Susan Jeske is well-known as the first recipient of the Ms. America ® title and in her capacity as the current Ms. America ® Pageant President and for her various pageant-related associations for the last twenty years. She has a great professional profile as a pageant judge, having judged more than 200 beauty pageants in her home country and abroad.

During Susan Jeskes professional career, she visited more than 26 countries and has traveled to all the States in the United States of America. She was honored to be chosen as a Goodwill Ambassador for America and has also worked for many Fortune 500 companies as a spokesperson.

Susan Jeske spent a lot of time working for charitable and humanitarian causes, which has resulted in her being chosen as a recipient of the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award. This award was established in 2003 by President George W. Bush and is the highest level of the President’s Volunteer Service Awards.

The first Ms. America ® event was conducted in 1997 with 50 participants, in which Susan Jeske was announced as the first titleholder. The event was produced in front of a live audience at the elegant Las Vegas Luxor Hotel. Susan Jeske walked away with cash and prizes totaling over $75,000. Wanting to make a difference during her reign she launched a non-violence campaign targeting high school students where she implemented non-violence pledges in over 150 high schools across the United States. The media attention Susan Jeske received nationwide for her program resulted in more than thirty assorted commendations, proclamations and awards. An award from the United States President is included in these accolades as well as being presented the "Key to the City" from the Mayors of 15 Cities.

Susan Jeske is currently the President of the Ms. America ® Pageant. This is a forum for the elite women of today where they can showcase their beauty, grace, style and accomplishments. Through this festival of beauty the pageant aims to unite and "Empower Women Across the Nation and Around the World." The winner of the Ms. America ® title will use her instant celebrity status and embark on a year of service to help others.

Susan Jeske also has sung professionally and is most known for singing the Star Spangled Banner. Her singing performances at over 1,500 events include the inauguration of the 43rd President of the United States, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Bob Hope USO Tours, Angels, Dodgers, Los Angeles Lakers, Denver Broncos, Montel Williams Show, President Bill Clinton and Her Majesty Queen Regent Sirikit of Thailand.

Apart from these celebrated occasions, Susan Jeske has also sung at the events of the Inauguration of the Ronald Reagan Library and the launch of the STS 102 Space Shuttle from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Susan Jeske also holds another distinction that has been responsible for her name being included in the Guinness Book of World Records—she has sung the American National Anthem at the most number of events within a single day! She raised a stupendous amount of money for charity through this feat—$93,000—and 60,000 people were inspired of her rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. Since then 7 people have tried to break Susan Jeske’s Guinness World Record to no avail. Known as The Star Spangled Songstress, Susan Jeske was on the television show, "To Tell The Truth," where she and two imposters were able to stump the panel of celebrity judges.

Her acting skills are also well-known—Susan Jeske has performed in television dramas such as Days of Our Lives, Young and the Restless, It’s a Living, Bold and the Beautiful and can be seen in print as well as several television commercials.

She has also provided her worthy advice to people from the radio, television and print media in her capacity as a lifestyle, beauty, image and protocol consultant. Susan Jeske gives her professional advice to models and debuting actors, community and political leaders and entrepreneurs on how to create a good presence when they are under the social microscope.

Susan Jeske also holds the repute of being a coach for pageant events. People also fondly call her "The Queen Maker" as a nod to her able mentoring of various female pageant participants who became nationally and internationally famous. Louise Wu, who became Miss Asian America ® in 2007-08 is one of her protégés and currently works on the daytime talk show Ellen DeGeneres and plans to compete in the Miss California USA Pageant.

Susan Jeske has been a flourishing network marketer. Her business acumen is seen from how she was associated with an international cosmetic line for five years and rose to the top 2% of the company within the first 2 years. Becoming one of the sales leaders of the organization, she is now looked upon as an authority on building a successful direct sales company and speaks to groups around the country about how to build a successful team.

In 2009-10, Susan Jeske traveled at least 3000 miles per month across the North America Continent speaking about safe cosmetics. She is on a mission to educate the public about the dangers of toxins in cosmetics and personal care products and how to choose products that are safer. She has been a guest speaker on TV news programs and written about in magazines and newspapers across the United States and Canada.