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The Miss Kentucky competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Kentucky in the Miss America pageant. Kentucky has once won the Miss America crown.
Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age | Local Title | Miss America Talent | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Ann-Blair Thornton | Bowling Green | 21 | Miss Bowling Green | Piano "Prelude in G Minor" | Quality of Life Award winner | Previously Miss Kentucky's Outstanding Teen 2007, 4th runner-up at Miss America's Outstanding Teen; 1st runner-up to National Sweetheart 2010 | |
| 2010 | Djuan Trent | Columbus, GA | 23 | Miss Berea Area | Vocal "A Change Is Gonna Come" | Top 10 | Eligible to compete at Miss Kentucky as a Berea College student; Voted into the Top 15 as a "Contestants' Choice" finalist by her fellow contestants | |
| 2009 | Mallory Ervin | Morganfield | 24 | Miss Bowling Green | Vocal "On My Own" from Les Misérables | 4th Runner-up at Miss America 2010 | Quality of Life Finalist | Was selected as one of three "America's Choice" contestants in the top 15 voted by TV viewers; The Amazing Race 17 Contestant |
| 2008 | Emily Cox | Campbellsville | 22 | Miss Bowling Green | Classical Piano "Impromptu in C Sharp Minor" by Hugo Reinhold | Top 12 at Miss America 2009 | Quality of Life Award Winner | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2005; Niece of Miss Kentucky 1990- Nancy Cox; Daughter of Ricky Lee Cox |
| 2007 | Kaitlynne Postel | Lexington | 20 | Miss Monticello | Vocal "So Much Better" from Legally Blonde | Daughter of Miss Maryland 1982- Lynne Carol Graham; Niece (by marriage) of Miss Kentucky 1978- Marcia Bell | ||
| 2006 | Rachelle Phillips | Princeton | 24 | Miss Heartland | Vocal "Cry Me a River" | She assumed her local title (when the original winner resigned) after having placed as the 4th runner-up at the local pageant since all the other runners-up had already won other local titles. | ||
| 2005 | Kerri Mitchell | Barbourville | 21 | Miss Jeffersontown | Vocal "Born to Fly" | |||
| 2004 | Maria Maldonado | Lexington | 22 | Miss Heart of the South | Vocal "Your Daddy's Son" from Ragtime | Non-finalist Interview Award | Former Miss Kentucky Teen (MAO) 1999 | |
| 2003 | MacKenzie Mayes | Lexington | 23 | Miss Monticello | Vocal "I Surrender" | 1st runner-up Quality of Life award; Non-finalist Talent | Former National Sweetheart 2000; Former Kentucky's Junior Miss 1998 | |
| 2002 | Mary Catherine Correll | Somerset | 21 | Miss Maysville Area | Vocal "The Prayer" | Quality of Life Award Finalist, Dr. David B. Allman Medical Scholarship | Daughter of Miss Kentucky USA 1975 and Miss Wyoming 1976, Carol June Wallace | |
| 2001 | Monica Hardin | Louisville | 20 | Miss Jeffersontown | Vocal "If You Believe" from The Wiz | First winner of the Miss Kentucky Teen title in 1998. This was the pre-cursor to the Miss Kentucky's Outstanding Teen Pageant prior to the national pageant being established. | ||
| 2000 | Whitney Boyles | Louisville | 22 | Miss Northern Kentucky | Vocal "In His Eyes" from Jekyll & Hyde | 4th Runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award, Quality of Life Award Finalist | |
| 1999 | Shanna Kari Moore¹ | Marion | Miss Jeffersontown | Classical Piano | 4th runner-up (1998) & 3rd runner-up (1999) to National Sweetheart | |||
| Heather French | Maysville | 24 | Miss Louisville | Vocal "As If We Never Said Goodbye" from Sunset Boulevard | Winner | Quality of Life 1st runner-up; Preliminary Swimsuit Award | ||
| 1998 | Chera-Lyn Cook | London | 21 | Miss Lexington | Vocal "When a Man Loves a Woman" | 4th Runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | Former National Sweetheart 1997 |
| 1997 | Lori Menshouse | Ashland | 24 | Miss Ashland Area | Piano "Revolutionary Etude" | Future Miss Kentucky USA 1999 | ||
| 1996 | Veronica Duka | Campbellsville | 19 | Miss Campbellsville | Vocal "Somewhere" | Top 10 Semifinalist | ||
| 1995 | Kristie Hicks | Bardstown | 23 | Miss Jeffersontown | Vocal "Stormy Weather" | Konica Visual Arts Scholarship | Former Miss Kentucky Teen USA 1989, 1st Runner-Up to Miss Teen USA 1989 | |
| 1994 | Laura Sue Humphress | Campbellsville | 22 | Miss Heart of the Bluegrass | Classical Piano "Khachaturian's Toccata" | |||
| 1993 | Tonya Virgin | Oldtown | 24 | Miss East Kentucky | Country Vocal "If I Could Only Be Like You" | Non-Finalist Talent | ||
| 1992 | Tawnya Mullins | Kimper | 25 | Miss Heart of Kentucky | Contemporary Clogging "Banjo Fantasy" | Top 10 Semi-finalist | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |
| 1991 | Sheri Plambeck | Lexington | 23 | Miss Heart of the Bluegrass | Tap Dance "The Joint Is Jumpin'" | |||
| 1990 | Nancy Cox | Campbellsville | 23 | Miss Bowling Green | Popular Vocal "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" | Currently Nancy Cox-Kenny, WLEX TV Personality in Lexington, Kentucky. Sister of Ricky Lee Cox; Aunt of Miss Kentucky 2008- Emily Cox | ||
| 1989 | Melanie Glasscock | Leitchfield | 21 | Miss Green River Valley | Baton Twirling "If My Friends Could See Me Now" | Was also Kentucky's Junior Miss in 1986 | ||
| 1988 | Mikka Darby | Salyersville | 19 | Miss East Kentucky | Middle Eastern Dance | |||
| 1987 | Elizabeth McDowell | Prospect | 21 | Miss Jefferson County | Semi-Classical Vocal "Falling in Love with Love" | |||
| 1986 | Melinda Cumberledge | Lexington | 23 | Miss Bluegrass Area | Semi-Classical Vocal "Till There Was You" | Non-Finalist Talent | ||
| 1985 | Laurie Janine Keller | Nippa | 21 | Miss Floyd County | Vocal / Ballet en Pointe "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" | Top 10 Semi-finalist | Toured with 1986 Miss America Gillette Show Troupe | |
| 1984 | Kelly Lin Brumagen | Lexington | 22 | Miss Fayette County | Vocal "Le Jazz Hot" from Victor/Victoria | Top 10 Semi-finalist | Allman Medical Scholarship recipient | |
| 1983 | Lynn Thompson | Lexington | 24 | Miss Bluegrass Area | Popular Vocal "Yesterday When I Was Young" | Top 10 Semi-finalist | ||
| 1982 | Gwendolyn Whitten | Vine Grove | 23 | Miss Louisville | Semi-Classical Vocal "And This Is My Beloved" | Top 10 Semi-finalist | Preliminary Talent Award | |
| 1981 | Sheri Copeland | Benton | 20 | Miss Bluegrass Area | Popular Vocal "Out Here On My Own" from Fame | |||
| 1980 | Daphne Cochran | Louisville | 21 | Miss Fairdale | Popular Vocal "Bridges" | |||
| 1979 | Kathryn Parker | Wilmore | 21 | Miss Lexington | Flute Solo "The Swiss Shepherd's Song" | |||
| 1978 | Marcia Bell | Lexington | 21 | Miss Lake Cumberland | Popular Vocal "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" | Top 10 Semi-finalist | Aunt (by marriage) of Miss Kentucky 2007- Kaitlynne Postel | |
| 1977 | Karen Gordon | Benton | 21 | Miss Murray State University | Chalk Drawing with Narration "Mark Twain" | |||
| 1976 | Victoria Harned | Leitchfield | 21 | Miss Lake Cumberland | Popular Vocal "Send In the Clowns" | Nonfinalist Talent Award | Miss America USO Troupe | |
| 1975 | Marsha Griffith | Greenup | 22 | Miss Ashland Area | Vocal / Trumpet "I Can See Clearly Now" | Nonfinalist Talent Award | Miss America USO Troupe | |
| 1974 | Darlene Compton | Louisville | 25 | Miss Louisville | Vocal "Mira" from Carnival! | 3rd runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | |
| 1973 | Lyda Lewis | Louisville | 24 | Miss Louisville | Vocal "Sweet Inspiration" & "Where You Lead" | Participated in Miss America USO Troupe | ||
| 1972 | Diana Moore | Louisville | Miss Louisville | Successor to crown | ||||
| Carolyn Walters | Louisville | 19 | Miss University of Louisville | Vocal "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" | Represented Kentucky in the Miss America 1973 Pageant but was later relieved of her duties.[1] | |||
| 1971 | Robbie Halcomb | Scottsville | 19 | Miss Jeffersontown | Semi-Classical Vocal "Italian Street Song" | Competed in the 1968 Miss Teenage America Pageant | ||
| 1970 | Cynthia Bostick | Owensboro | 18 | Miss Owensboro | Vocal "Life Is a One Way Street" | actress, appeared on As the World Turns | ||
| 1969 | Louisa Flook | Richmond | 20 | Miss Richmond | Dramatic Monologue from "Little Moon of Alban" by James Costigan | |||
| 1968 | Janet Hatfield | Jeffersontown | 18 | Miss Jeffersontown | Vocal "I'm Glad There Is You" | Participated in Miss America USO Troupe | ||
| 1967 | Jo-Anne Clark | Louisville | 19 | Miss Jeffersontown | Vocal / Guitar "Unchained Melody" | |||
| 1966 | Janie Olmstead | New Castle | 22 | Miss New Castle | Modern Ballet Dance "Peter Gunn Theme" | |||
| 1965 | Rebecca Snyder | Owensboro | 20 | Miss Lexington | Dramatic Monologue "Portrayal of the Sphinx" | 2nd runner-up in the 1964 Miss Sun Fun USA Pageant | ||
| 1964 | Linda Sawyer | Louisville | 21 | Miss Louisville | Vocal & Speech "Stephen Foster Medley" | Top 10 Semi-finalist | Was also Kentucky's Junior Miss in 1961 and 1st runner-up to America's Junior Miss, older sister of newscaster Diane Sawyer | |
| 1963 | Nell Owen | Bowling Green | Miss Bowling Green | Fashion Design | Former mayor of Prospect, Kentucky | |||
| 1962 | Nanci Bowling | Campbellsville | 21 | Miss Harlan | Piano Solo | |||
| 1961 | Lee Grigsby | Bardstown | 18 | Miss Louisville | Vocal "Summertime" | competed in the 1962 Miss Dixie Pageant | ||
| 1960 | Alice Chumbley | Jamestown | 21 | Miss Bowling Green | Dramatic Monologue from "The Country Girl" | |||
| 1959 | Carol Brown | Whitesburg | 19 | Miss Eastern State Teacher's College | Dramatic Reading | 1st runner-up in the 1960 Miss Dixie Pageant | ||
| 1958 | Sandra Smith | Harlan | Pantomime/Dance "Tweedle Dee" | Competed in the 1959 Miss Dixie Pageant | ||||
| 1957 | Jane Brock | Liberty | Piano | Non-Finalist Talent | ||||
| 1956 | Janene Simpson | Louisville | Piano | |||||
| 1955 | Ann Gillock | Carrollton | Organ | |||||
| 1954 | Margaret Diane Hunt | Lexington | Dance | |||||
| 1953 | Emily Rucker | Berea | Vocal | |||||
| 1952 | Joy Williams | Louisville | Dance | |||||
| 1951 | Dottye Nuckols | Bowling Green | Vocal | |||||
| 1950 | Mary Osborne | Wheelwright | Drama | |||||
| 1949 | Betty Haverstock | Louisville | ||||||
| 1948 | Mildred Joanne Hollinger | Louisville | competed as Miss Louisville in the Miss America Pageant | |||||
| 1947 | Evelyn Murray | Louisville | Samba | Top 10 Semi-finalist | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |||
| Margaret Allen Hill | Louisville | Vocal/Piano "It Had to Be You" | Competed as Miss Louisville in the Miss America Pageant. | |||||
| 1946 | Mary Madonna Smith | Jenkins | Original winner, Emma Lee Blackford, was disqualified for being underage | |||||
| Patricia Alden Fenton | Louisville | Artistic Exhibition & Sketch | Semi-Finalist | Competed as Miss Louisville in the Miss America Pageant. | ||||
| 1941 | Dorothy Slatten | Lexington | Semi-Finalist | |||||
| 1940 | Dorothy Slatten | Lexington | 4th runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | ||||
| 1939 | Louise Holman | Pineville | Dorothy Slatten was the original winner but was disqualified due to being underage at that time [2] | |||||
| Mattigene Palmore | Lexington | Competed as Miss Lexington in the Miss America Pageant. | ||||||
| 1938 | Evelyn Cooper | Mt. Healthy | Vocal "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" | |||||
| 1937 | Audrey Flaig | Bellevue | ||||||
| 1936 | Charlet Hiteman | Newport | Semi-Finalist | Model, appeared in shows in New York | ||||
| Jean Megerle | Fort Thomas | 19 | Semi-Finalist | Competed as Miss Blue Grass in the pageant that year. | ||||
| 1935 | Jean Megerle | Fort Thomas | 18 | Vocal / Acrobatic Dance "I'll Never Say Never Again" | 2nd runner-up | |||
| 1933 | Lucille Rader | Berea | 14 | Semi-Finalist | ||||
| 1926 | No Miss Kentucky | Gladys Imogene King competed as Miss Louisville | ||||||
| 1925 | No Miss Kentucky | Madeline O'Laughlin competed as Miss Louisville and placed as a Finalist | ||||||
| 1924 | No Miss Kentucky | Kathleen McElroy competed as Miss Paducah and there was also a Miss Louisville whose name is not known | ||||||
| 1923 | No Miss Kentucky | A Miss Louisville competed in the Miss America Pageant but her name is not known. | ||||||
| 1922 | No Miss Kentucky | Dorothy Heick competed as Miss Louisville in the Miss America Pageant |
- Notes
- ¹ Shanna Moore assumed the duties of Miss Kentucky when Heather French was named Miss America.
References
- ^ "Miss Kentucky". Kentucky New Era (Google News Archive Search). Apr 16, 1973. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=266&dat=19730416&id=vqc0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=52gFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3729,5353276.
- ^ Palm Beach Post, “Local High School Girl Wins Title” September 3, 1940
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