As families and communities identify victims in Wednesday night’s plane crash near Washington, D.C., we’re learning that a well-known civil rights attorney and former Miss Kansas contestant is among the 67 people dead.

A former Miss Kansas contestant and attorney Kiah Duggins has been named as one of the victims of the flight from Wichita, Kan. that crashed into the Potomac on Wednesday night.

Wednesday's tragic Washington DC plane crash of a commercial flight and helicopter. claimed the life of Kiah Duggins, a future HBCU professor at Howard University. Duggins, a former Miss Kansas contestant, was among the casualties of a collision between the airliner and a Black Hawk Helicopter near Reagan Airport on Wednesday.

Kiah Duggins, 30, graduated from East High and Wichita State University before going on to earn her law degree from Harvard Law School.

A woman who made a name for herself in Wichita and was in the process of doing the same thing in Washington was on the plane that crashed in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. Kiah Duggins was a civil rights attorney who worked with a legal group in D.

Kiah Duggins, an attorney and future Howard University law professor, was among the victims in the DC plane crash.