Shirley Strawn

Shirley Strawn of Murfreesboro, Arkansas found the world's most perfect diamond, weighing 3.09 carat (620 mg) named the Strawn-wagner diamond in 1990. It was cut to 1.09 carats (220 mg) in 1997, and graded a "perfect" 0/0/0 by the American Gem Society in 1998 and graded perfect by the Gemological Institute of America , making it the first diamond ever to receive such an AGS grading. A diamond this perfect is a one-in-a-billion diamond, according to Peter Yantzer, the AGS Laboratory Director. A diamond this perfect is so scarce, most jewelers and gemologists will never see one.
Shirley could have sold the diamond for a large sum of money, but instead sold it to the Crater of Diamonds State Park for far less because that's where she would rather have it located if it would be on permanent display, however in 2009 due to construction, the diamond has not been on display there.
Shirley has garnered over 500 other diamonds in her 30 years of diamond searching.

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