Julie Bentley is a graduate of Auburn University and holds an Agricultural Communications Degree and Agriscience of Education Master’s Degree. She taught Agriscience at Jemison High School for five years before starting her family. She and her husband Clay have been married for 16 years, and they have three children: Brooks, Anna Bell and Abby Ross. They live on Clay’s family farm where they are 4th generation peach growers.

 

Julie was a Crimsonette for the Million Dollar Band at the University of Alabama in 2001 and then transferred to Auburn University, where she was a Majorette in the Auburn University Marching Band from 2003-2005. She has choreographed and mentored multiple collegiate majorette and dance team members on the high school and collegiate levels throughout the south.

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Julie has danced since the age of two. She learned from Kathy Draper, Monica Barnett Smith and Melissa Verzino. She has taught ballet, tap and jazz throughout the state and is thrilled to join the prestigious faculty at Evolve Studio for the Arts.

 

She has been the choreographer for the Chilton County DYW program for 20 years. She became the Miss Hoover and Miss Hoover’s Teen preliminary director in 2019. In 2024 for the first time ever in Miss Alabama history both her Miss Hoover, Abbie Stockard, and her Miss Hoover’s Teen, Ali Mims, went on to win Miss Alabama and Miss Alabama’s Teen. This January Ali was name 1st alternate in Miss America’s Teen and Abbie was crowned Miss America. In June her Miss Hoover 2024 Emma Terry was named Miss Alabama 2025 and will compete at Miss America 2026 this September. Julie was honored to help coach

all these young ladies in the onstage portions of competition.