Duggins graduated from the International Baccalaureate program at Wichita East High School and then later attended Wichita State University as a Clay Barton Scholar. She later received a degree from Harvard Law,

Kiah Duggins, a soon-to-be Howard University law professor, died in the mid-air crash near Reagan National Airport. Details emerge.

A Howard University Law professor and former Kansas beauty queen was among the 67 people presumed dead after a midair crash ​involving a passenger plane and Army helicopter in Washington, D.C., university officials said.

Tina Knowles expressed her condolences after Howard University law professor Kiah Duggins was among the victims in the American Airlines crash

Civil rights attorney Kiah Duggins was among the 64 passengers and crew on the American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, to Washington, D.C., that plunged into the Potomac River Wednesday evening after colliding with a military helicopter.

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