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For the state pageant affiliated with Miss USA, see Miss North Carolina USA.
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The Miss North Carolina competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of North Carolina in the Miss America pageant. The competition has been held in Raleigh every year since 1978. Prior to that, it was held in various locales including Charlotte, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Durham, Burlington, Wilmington, and Morehead City. Miss North Carolina won the Miss America crown once - in 1961.
Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age | Local Title | Talent at Miss America | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Hailey Best[1] | Goldsboro | 21 | Miss Durham | Operatic Vocal "Art is Calling for Me" from "The Enchantress" by Victor Herbert | Top 15 Semi-Finalist | CMN Miracle Maker Award | |
| 2010 | Adrienne Core | Erwin | 22 | Miss Raleigh | Contemporary Clogging "Soul Man" | Preliminary Talent Award, Non-Finalist Talent Award | ||
| 2009 | Katherine Southard | Raleigh | 23 | Miss Raleigh | Ballet en Pointe "Fascinating Rhythm" | |||
| 2008 | Amanda Watson | Raleigh | 21 | Miss Garner | Vocal | Finalist for Quality of Life Award | First Miss America contestant to support ALS as her platform. | |
| 2007 | Jessica Jacobs | High Point | 23 | Miss Central Carolina | Ballet en Pointe "Spring" from The Four Seasons | 4th runner-up at Miss America 2008 | ||
| 2006 | Elizabeth Horton | High Point | 22 | Miss Carolina Coast | Classical Vocal "Je Veux Vivre" from Roméo et Juliette | |||
| 2005 | Brooke McLaurin | Fayetteville | 24 | Miss Fayetteville | Vocal "I'll Never Love This Way Again" | |||
| 2004 | Kirstin Elrod | Cary | 23 | Miss Carolina Foothills | Semi-Classical Vocal "Love Is Where You Find It" | 2nd runner-up at Miss America 2005 | ||
| 2003 | Dana Reason | Raleigh | 24 | Miss Greenville | Tap Dance "Rock This Town" | 2nd runner up Quality of Life award | ||
| 2002 | Misty Clymer | Raleigh | 24 | Miss Western Piedmont | Vocal "Hold On" from The Secret Garden | Top 15 Semi-finalist at Miss America 2003 | ||
| Rebekah Revels | St. Pauls | Miss Fayetteville | Vocal | |||||
| 2001 | Ashley House | Dallas | 20 | Miss Lincoln County | Celtic Irish Dance "Flames of Fire" | |||
| 2000 | Lorna McNeill | Lumberton | 24 | Miss Topsail Island | Vocal "Natural Woman" | Non-finalist Talent Award | First Native American winner | |
| 1999 | Kelly Trogdon | Asheboro | 23 | Miss Western Piedmont | Vocal "It's Time" | |||
| 1998 | Kelli Bradshaw | Spivey's Corner | 22 | Miss Western Piedmont | Ballet en Pointe "PS 491" by John Tesh | 1st runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |
| 1997 | Michelle Warren | Gastonia | 22 | Miss Appalachian Valley | Vocal "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" | 1st runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | |
| 1996 | Jennifer Roberts | Greensboro | 21 | Miss Thomasville | Tap Dance "Devil With a Blue Dress On" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1995 | Lisa Bamford | Raleigh | 21 | Miss Garner | Classical Piano Solo "Totentantz" | Preliminary Talent Award, Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1994 | Dana Stephenson | Garner | 20 | Miss Garner | Classical Vocal "Art Is Calling For Me" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1993 | Mary Susan Runion | Wilmington | 24 | Miss Spivey's Corner | Tap Dance "Luck Be a Lady" | |||
| 1992 | Heidi Sue Williams | Wade | 23 | Miss Fayetteville | Vocal "Danny Boy" | 1st runner-up Quality of Life Award | Sister of Wendy Williams, Miss North Carolina Teen USA 1993[2] | |
| 1991 | Jennifer Smith | Mt. Airy | 22 | Miss Greater Raleigh | Semi-Classical Vocal "Half a Moment" from Jeeves | Top 10 Semi-finalist | ||
| 1990 | Scarlet Morgan | Pfafftown | 22 | Miss Forsyth County | Classical Vocal "Vissi d'arte" | Preliminary Talent Award, Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1989 | Kelly Fletcher | Morganton | 21 | Miss High Country | Semi-Classical Vocal "Half a Moment" | |||
| 1988 | Lee Beaman | Rocky Mount | 20 | Miss Henderson | Jazz en Pointe | |||
| 1987 | Lori Boggs | Kannapolis | 26 | Miss Cabarrus County | Popular Vocal "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" | Previously Miss North Carolina USA 1980 | ||
| 1986 | Karen Bloomquist | Durham | 22 | Miss Durham | Piano | Former runner up in Miss Connecticut before her NC win. | ||
| 1985 | Joni Parker | Fayetteville | 24 | Miss Fayetteville | Vocal "The Shadow of Your Smile" | |||
| 1984 | Francesca Adler | Fayetteville | 23 | Miss Fayetteville | Vocal "Home" | |||
| 1983 | Deneen Graham | North Wilkesboro | 19 | Miss Elkin Valley | Jazz Dance "Sing, Sing, Sing" | First and thus far only African American winner | ||
| 1982 | Elizabeth Williams | Shelby | 22 | Miss Greater Greensboro | Semi-Classical Vocal "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" | Preliminary Swimsuit Award; Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1981 | Lynn Williford | Wilmington | 24 | Miss Wilmington | Russian Character Dance "Czardas" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1980 | Janet Black | Kannapolis | 21 | Miss Charlotte-Mecklenburg | Classical Piano "Etude in C Minor" by Frédéric Chopin | Non-finalist Talent Award | Top 5 finalist in the 1980 "Maid of Cotton" pageant | |
| 1979 | Monta Maki | Hickory | 23 | Miss Hickory | Vocal "You Light Up My Life" | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | ||
| 1978 | Deborah Shook | Spruce Pine | 21 | Miss Spivey's Corner | Tap Dance "Lover" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Gained national attention by kicking her crown across the stage the next to last night of her reign in a disagreement with pageant sponsors, Raleigh Jaycees | |
| 1977 | Kathy Fleming | Hamptonville | 22 | Miss Appalachian State University | Popular Vocal "Everything" | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | ||
| 1976 | Susie Proffitt | Black Mountain | 22 | Miss Rutherford County | Tap Dance "Baby Face" | |||
| 1975 | Susan Lawrence | Thomasville | 21 | Miss Thomasville | Vocal "You And I" from Goodbye, Mr. Chips | 1st runner-up | ||
| 1974 | Susan Griffin | High Point | 22 | Miss High Point | Semi-Classical Vocal "With a Song in My Heart" | Non-finalist Talent | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | |
| 1973 | Heather Walker | Hendersonville | 19 | Miss Hendersonville | Popular Vocal "The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener" | |||
| 1972 | Constance Dorn | Kinston | 19 | Miss Kinston | Ballet "The Grand Holiday" | 1st runner-up | Later Miss North Carolina USA 1975 and second runner up to Miss USA 1975, Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | |
| 1971 | Patsy Wood | Benson | 24 | Miss Garner | Vocal "I Believe It All" | |||
| 1970 | Cornelia Lerner | Asheville | 18 | Miss Asheville | Piano "Revolutionary Etude" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1969 | Patricia Johnson | Winston-Salem | 20 | Miss Raleigh | Semi-Classical Vocal from Porgy and Bess | Non-finalist Talent Award | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | |
| 1968 | Elisa Annette Johnson | New Bern | 19 | Miss New Bern | Vocal "As Long as He Needs Me" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1967 | Sarah Stedman | Asheboro | 22 | Miss Randolph County | Piano "Fantaisie-Impromptu" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1966 | Nannette Minor | Charlotte | 23 | Miss Charlotte | Piano / Vocal | |||
| 1965 | Penelope Clark | Sanford | 19 | Miss Sanford | Classical Ballet "Robina" | |||
| 1964 | Sharon Finch | Thomasville | 20 | Miss Thomasville | Vocal & Dance with Castanets | |||
| 1963 | Jeanne Swanner | Graham | 18 | Miss Graham | Comedy Sketch & Ukelele | Miss Congeniality award | Standing 6' 2" the tallest contestant to compete at Miss America. Humorist, author and professional speaker, judged the Miss America pageant in 1990, 1994 and 2000. | |
| 1962 | Janice Barron | Morganton | 18 | Miss Morganton | Piano "Revolutionary Etude" | |||
| 1961 | Susan Woodall* | Miss Roanoke Rapids | *was fired as Miss North Carolina for entering the Miss Dixie contest in violation of her contract. | |||||
| Maria Fletcher | Asheville | 19 | Miss Asheville | Tap Dance to recorded version of her own voice singing "Somebody Loves Me" | Winner | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | ||
| 1960 | Ann Herring | Winston-Salem | 19 | Miss Winston-Salem | Vocal "The Lonely Goatherd" | 2nd runner-up | ||
| 1959 | Judith Klipfel | Asheboro | 18 | Miss Randolph County | Vocal | |||
| 1958 | Betty Evans | Greenville | Miss Greenville | Vocal, Piano, Skit & Dance "Wait Till You See Him" | 4th runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Competed in the 1960 Maid of Cotton Pageant | |
| 1957 | Elaine Herndon | Durham | Miss Durham | Vocal & Dance | Top 10 Semi-finalist | Preliminary Swimsuit | Crowned Miss Dixie in 1958 | |
| 1956 | Joan Melton | Albemarle | Miss Albemarle | Piano | ||||
| 1955 | Clara Faye Arnold | Raleigh | Miss Wake County | Monologue "Sabrina Fair" | 3rd runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | ||
| 1954 | Betty Ring | Lexington | Miss Lexington | Dramatic Monologue "The Sleepwalking Scene" from Macbeth | ||||
| 1953 | Barbara Crockett | Winston-Salem | Miss Winston-Salem | Vocal | ||||
| 1952 | Barbara Harris | Salisbury | Miss Salisbury | Classical Vocal "Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix" | ||||
| 1951 | Lu Ogburn | Smithfield | Miss Smithfield | Piano "Malagueña" | 2nd runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award; Preliminary Talent Award | ||
| 1950 | Carolyn Edwards | Leaksville | Miss Tri-City | Monologue "Rumba" by Dorothy Parker | Semi-finalist | |||
| 1949 | Nancy Lee Yelverton | Rocky Mount | Miss Rocky Mount | |||||
| 1948 | Patsy Osborne | Lawndale | Miss Shelby | |||||
| 1947 | Alice White | Fayetteville | Miss Fayetteville | Vocal "That's My Desire" | ||||
| 1946 | Trudy Riley | Wilson | Miss Wilson | |||||
| 1945 | Dorothy Johnson | Winston-Salem | Miss Winston-Salem | Recitation "I Am Old Glory" | Semi-finalist | |||
| 1944 | Betsy Marie Dalton | Winston-Salem | Miss Winston-Salem | |||||
| 1942 | Hilda Taylor | Goldsboro | Miss Goldsboro | |||||
| 1941 | Joey Augusta Paxton | Charlotte | Miss Charlotte | Swing Vocal | 4th runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award; Preliminary Swimsuit Award | ||
| 1940 | Jeanne Wofford | Forest City | Miss Forest City | |||||
| 1939 | Margaret Wood | Charlotte | Miss Charlotte | Vocal "If I Didn't Care" | Semi-finalist | Preliminary Talent Award | ||
| Marguerite Taylor | Charlotte | competed as Miss Charlotte in the Miss America Pageant | ||||||
| 1938 | Rebecca Pearl Hankins | Charlotte | 18 | Miss Charlotte |
competed as Miss Charlotte in the Miss America Pageant |
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| 1937 | Ruth Covington | Charlotte | Miss Charlotte | Tap Dance "Gonna Go" | 2nd runner-up | |||
| Betty Hunneycutt | Charlotte | Semi-Finalist | Competed as Miss Charlotte in the Miss America Pageant | |||||
| 1936 | Thelma Perkins | Charlotte | competed as Miss Charlotte in the Miss America Pageant | |||||
| 1933 | Leola Councilman | 20 | ||||||
| 1923 | No Miss North Carolina | Rose Hildebrand competed as Miss Asheville in the Miss America Pageant |
* Succeeded to the crown after Miss North Carolina won Miss America
References
- ^ "Hailey Best Crowned As New Miss North Carolina". WFMY News 2. June 27, 2011. http://www.digtriad.com/news/local/article/180725/57/Miss-Durham-Crowned-As-New-Miss-North-Carolina.
- ^ Womble, Jeffery (1993-03-06). "Fayetteville Teen Brings Home State Pageant Crown". The Fayetteville Observer. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=FV&p_theme=fv&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F54F65611CF01ED&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM.
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