Jennifer Lynn Farrell held the title of Miss New Jersey 2003 and placed in the Top 15 at the Miss America 2004 pageant held in Atlantic City, New Jersey. She competed at Miss New Jersey as Miss Atlantic County and won the pageant on her first try. At the time of the Miss America pageant, she was a 19-year-old Spanish/Education major at Rutgers University. Her platform was Adoption as an Option and she choose this as her platform because she was adopted. Her talent was Ballet en Pointe.