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Miss Nevada
For the state pageant affiliated with Miss USA, see Miss Nevada USA.
The Miss Nevada competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Nevada in the Miss America pageant.
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Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age | Local Title | Miss America Talent | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
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| 2011 | Alana Lee | Las Vegas | 21 | Miss Clark County | Vocal "At This Moment" | |||
| 2010 | Cris Crotz | Mesquite | 24 | Miss Southern Counties | Popular Vocal "Alone" | |||
| 2009 | Christina Keegan | Gardnerville | 23 | Miss Northern Counties | Ballet en Pointe "Bohemian Rhapsody" | 2nd runner-up Quality of Life award | ||
| 2008 | Julianna Erdesz | Reno | 24 | Miss Carson City | Vocal | Future Miss Nevada USA 2010 | ||
| 2007 | Caleche Manos | Reno | 23 | Miss Carson City | Vocal "Love Is a Battlefield" | Quality of Life Award Winner | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2006 | |
| 2006 | Caydi Cole | Las Vegas | 22 | Miss Clark County | Vocal "Blues in the Night" | Nevada Junior Miss 2003 | ||
| 2005 | Crystal Wosik | Las Vegas | 23 | Miss Las Vegas | Lyrical Dance "Don't Rain on My Parade" | |||
| 2004 | Elizabeth Muto | Las Vegas | 24 | Miss Las Vegas | Dramatic Monologue "Who Will Cry?" | Non Finalist Interview Award, Second Runner Up for the Quality of Life Award | Recipient of Presidential Volunteer Service Award by President G.W. Bush; Appeared on Good Morning America, Dr. Phil, Montel Williams and Inside Edition to advocate for child rights | |
| 2003 | Christina O'Neil | Carson City | 24 | Miss Gold Country | Vocal "Your Daddy's Son" from Ragtime | Contestant at National Sweetheart 1999; Recipient of Presidential Volunteer Service Award by President G.W. Bush; Carson City School District Teacher of the Year 2009 | ||
| 2002 | Teresa Benitez | Reno | 24 | Miss Silver State | Dramatic Monologue from "The Laramie Project" | 3rd runner-up | Preliminary Interview Award, Preliminary On-Stage Interview Award, Quality of Life Award Winner | |
| 2001 | Ashley Huff | Las Vegas | 21 | Miss Las Vegas | Polynesian Dance "Welcome to Polynesia" | Future Miss Nevada USA 2003 | ||
| 2000 | Tiffanie Story | Reno | 19 | Miss UNR/Truckee Meadows | Vocal "Ain't Misbehavin'" | Non Finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1999 | Gina Giacinto | Las Vegas | 24 | Miss Las Vegas | Original Vocal Presentation "Dreams Were Given Wings To Fly" | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Future Miss Nevada USA 2001, 3rd runner up at Miss USA 2001 | |
| 1998 | Anna Carpenter | Mesquite | 18 | Miss Mesquite | Monologue | |||
| 1997 | Amanda Gunderson | Reno | 19 | Miss Northern Counties | Classical Vocal "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen" | |||
| 1996 | Annette Albertson | Reno | 24 | Miss Truckee Meadows | Vocal "Luck Be a Lady" | |||
| 1995 | Jennifer Joseph | Wendover | 24 | Miss Elko County/Northeast Nevada | Vocal "I Am Changing" | Non Finalist Talent Award | Contestant on the E! reality show "The Entertainer" | |
| 1994 | Laura Hubach | Reno | 22 | Miss Reno | Classical Piano | |||
| 1993 | Mitzie Darleen Cox | Sparks | 20 | Miss Sparks | Vocal / Dance "I'm a Brass Band" from Sweet Charity | |||
| 1992 | Sandra Dornak | Las Vegas | 25 | Miss Las Vegas | Ventriloquism "Super califragilistic expialidocious" | |||
| 1991 | Malia Winn | Minden | 17 | Miss Douglas County | Interpretive Ballet "Somewhere in Time" | |||
| 1990 | Tia Marie Zorne | Las Vegas | 21 | Miss Las Vegas | Acro-Jazz Dance "Julie's Theme" from American Anthem | |||
| 1989 | Brenda Linscott | Incline Village | 23 | Miss Cosmopolitan Counties | Vocal "Memory" | |||
| 1988 | Deborah Schuler | Incline Village | 22 | Miss Cosmopolitan Counties | Vocal "The Woman in the Moon" from A Star Is Born | |||
| 1987 | Stacie James | Las Vegas | 23 | Miss Las Vegas | Vocal "On My Own" from Les Misérables | 2nd runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | |
| 1986 | Kelsey Kara | Las Vegas | 23 | Miss Las Vegas | Flamenco Dance | |||
| 1985 | Sonja Nall | Las Vegas | 23 | Miss Las Vegas | Classical Ballet en Pointe "Kitri's Variation" from Don Quixote | Non Finalist Talent Award | Toured with 1986 Miss America Gillette Show Troupe | |
| 1984 | LeAnna Grant | Las Vegas | 22 | Miss Las Vegas | Vocal "I Love Paris" | Future Miss Nevada USA 1986 | ||
| 1983 | Kim Pacini | Incline Village | 24 | Miss North Lake Tahoe | Vocal "You're the Top" | |||
| 1982 | Kim King | Las Vegas | 21 | Miss Clark County | Banjo Solo "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee" | |||
| 1981 | Suzanne Bowman | Reno | 20 | Miss Reno | Modern Rhythmic Gymnastics "Zero to Sixty in Five" | |||
| 1980 | Phyllis Hamlin | Reno | 23 | Miss Reno | Piano Solo "Warsaw Concerto" | |||
| 1979 | Jeanne Cangemi | North Lake Tahoe | 22 | Miss North Lake Tahoe | Classical & Jazz Saxophone "Harlem Nocturne" & "Csárdás" | |||
| 1978 | Megan Anderson | Reno | 19 | Miss Washoe County | Classical Vocal "Vissi d'arte" | Non Finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1977 | Lori Isom | Las Vegas | 18 | Miss Clark County | Jazz Dance "Classical Blues" | |||
| 1976 | Sandra Kastel | Las Vegas | 21 | Miss Las Vegas | Vocal "My Man" | Non Finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1975 | Sherri Ann Lowe | Las Vegas | 21 | Miss Las Vegas | Baton Twirling / Variety Act | |||
| 1974 | Jacqueline Barker | Sparks | 19 | Miss Sparks | Popular Vocal "The Way We Were" | |||
| 1973 | Echo Rost | Sparks | 20 | Miss Sparks | Modern Jazz Dance "I Feel the Earth Move" | Tied for Neat As A Pin Award | ||
| 1972 | Helen Bennett | Reno | 23 | Miss Reno | Ballet "Dance of the Gypsy" | Non Finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1971 | Joan Burachio | Las Vegas | 21 | Miss Las Vegas | Accordion "Csárdás" | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1970 | Vicky Jo Todd | Sparks | 20 | Miss Sparks | Vocal / Guitar "Time" | Non Finalist Talent Award | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | |
| 1969 | Karen Wastun | Yerington | 21 | Miss Lyon County | Dramatic Presentation "Lizzie" from The Rainmaker | |||
| 1968 | Sharon Davis | Reno | 19 | Miss University of Nevada | Classical Vocal "Quando me'n vo'" | |||
| 1967 | Vicky Landeck | Reno | 18 | Miss Reno | Dramatic Reading "Ruth, the Moabitess" by N.A. Truell | |||
| 1966 | Roberta Sharp | Carson City | 18 | Miss Carson City | Piano Solo | |||
| 1965 | Kathryn Blaikie | Carson City | 18 | Miss Carson City | Musical Comedy "I'm Late" | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | ||
| 1964 | Ellen Roseman | Sparks | 21 | Miss South Lake Tahoe | Comedy Skit | |||
| 1963 | Cheryle Thompson | Las Vegas | Miss Las Vegas | Folk Singing "My Lover Has Gone" | Semi-finalist | |||
| 1962 | Audrey Chambers | Reno | 19 | Baton Twirling, Fire Baton & Dance | Previously Nevada's Junior Miss 1961 | |||
| 1961 | Sherry Wagner | Reno | 19 | Tap Dance | ||||
| 1960 | Nancy Bowen | McGill | 19 | Humorous Reading while accompanying herself on the piano | ||||
| 1959 | Dawn Wells | Reno | 20 | Dramatic Reading | "Mary Ann" on Gilligan's Island | |||
| 1958 | Judy Wadsworth | Sparks | Drama | |||||
| 1957 | Loni Gravelle | Reno | Piano "Grieg's Piano Concerto In A Minor" | Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1956 | Carmen Ruggeroli | Las Vegas | Vocal | |||||
| 1955 | Vivienne Potter | Reno | ||||||
| 1954 | Janice Babcock | Reno | Ballet "Blues" | |||||
| 1953 | Jeannine McColl | Las Vegas | Dance | |||||
| 1952 | Bonnie Wilson | Reno | Art / Charcoal Sketching | assumed the title after the original winner, Sylvia Russell, got married | ||||
| 1951 | Donna Sollars | Reno | Vocal | |||||
| 1950 | Tosca Masini | Sparks | Comedy Characterization | Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1949 | Carol Lampe | Reno | Speech "4-H" |
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