Miss America Pageant Winners

The Miss America Pageant is traditionally held in September in Atlantic City, NJ. In 2006, the pageant was changed to January and held in Las Vegas.

To compete you must...

• Be between the ages of 17 and 24.

• Be a United States citizen.

• Meet residency requirements for competing in a certain town or state.

• Meet character criteria as set forth by the Miss America Organization.

• Be in reasonably good health to meet the job requirements.

• Be able to meet the time commitment and job responsibilities as set forth by the local program in which you compete.

Year	Winner	State
1921	Margaret Gorman	Washington D.C.
1922	Mary K. Campbell	Ohio
1923	Mary K. Campbell	Ohio
1924	Ruth Malcomson	Pennsylvania
1925	Fay Lanphier	California
1926	Norma Smallwood	Oklahoma
1927	Lois Delander	Illinois
1928	No Pageant	n/a
1929	No Pageant	n/a
1930	No Pageant	n/a
1931	No Pageant	n/a
1932	No Pageant	n/a
1933	Marian Bergeron	Connecticut
1934	No Pageant	n/a
1935	Henrietta Leaver	Pennsylvania
1936	Rose Coyle	Pennsylvania
1937	Bette Cooper	New Jersey
1938	Marilyn Meseke	Ohio
1939	Patricia Donnelly	Michigan
1940	Frances Burke	Pennsylvania
1941	Rosemary LaPlanche	California
1942	Jo-Carroll Dennison	Texas
1943	Jean Bartel	California
1944	Venus Ramey	Washington D.C.
1945	Bess Myerson	New York
1946	Marilyn Buferd	California
1947	Barbara Jo Walker	Tennessee
1948	BeBe Shopp	Minnesota
1949	Jacque Mercer	Arizona
1950	No Pageant	n/a
1951	Yolande Betbeze	Alabama
1952	Colleen Kay Hutchins	Utah
1953	Neva Jane Langley	Georgia
1954	Evelyn Ay	Pennsylvania
1955	Lee Meriwether	California
1956	Sharon Kay Ritchie	Colorado
1957	Marian McKnight	South Carolina
1958	Marilyn Van Derbur	Colorado
1959	Mary Ann Mobley	Mississippi
1960	Linda Lee Mead	Mississippi
1961	Nancy Anne Fleming	Michigan
1962	Maria Beale Fletcher	North Carolina
1963	Jacquelyn Mayer	Ohio
1964	Donna Axum	Arkansas
1965	Vonda Kay Van Dyke	Arizona
1966	Deborah Irene Bryant	Kansas
1967	Jane Anne Jayroe	Oklahoma
1968	Debra Dene Barnes	Kansas
1969	Judith Anne Ford	Illinois
1970	Pamela Anne Eldred	Michigan
1971	Phyllis George	Texas
1972	Laurel Lea Schaefer	Ohio
1973	Terry Anne Meeuwsen	Wisconsin
1974	Rebecca Ann King	Colorado
1975	Shirley Cothran	Texas
1976	Tawny Elaine Godin	New York
1977	Dorothy K. Benham	Minnesota
1978	Susan Yvonne Perkins	Ohio
1979	Kylene Barker	Virginia
1980	Cheryl Prewitt	Mississippi
1981	Susan Powell	Oklahoma
1982	Elizabeth Ward	Arkansas
1983	Debra Sue Maffett	California
1984	Vanessa Williams Suzette Charles	New York New Jersey
1985	Sharlene Wells	Utah
1986	Susan Diane Akin	Mississippi
1987	Kellye Cash	Tennessee
1988	Kaye Lani Rae Rafko	Michigan
1989	Gretchen E. Carlson	Minnesota
1990	Debbye Lynn Turner	Missouri
1991	Marjorie Judith Vincent	Illinois
1992	Carolyn Sapp	Hawaii
1993	Leanza Cornett	Florida
1994	Kimberly Aiken	South Carolina
1995	Heather Whitestone	Alabama
1996	Shawntell Smith	Oklahoma
1997	Tara Dawn Holland	Kansas
1998	Kate Shindle	Illinois
1999	Nicole Johnson	Virginia
2000	Heather Renee French	Kentucky
2001	Angela Baraquio	Hawaii
2002	Katie Harman	Oregon
2003	Erika Natali Harold	Illinois
2004	Ericka Dunlop	Florida
2005	Deidre Downs	Alabama
2006	Jennifer Berry	Oklahoma
2007	Lauren Nelson	Oklahoma
2008	Kirsten Haglund	Michigan
2009	Katie Stam	Indiana
2010	Caressa Cameron	Virginia
2011	Teresa Scanlan	Nebraska
2012	Laura Kaeppeler	Wisconsin
2013	Mallory Hagan	New York
2014	Nina Davuluri	New York
2015	Kira Kazantsev	New York

The following States have never produced a Miss America:

Alaska, Delaware, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming