Year | Name | Hometown | Age | Local Title | Miss America Talent | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
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2024 | Becky Williams[1] | Purvis | 22 | Miss Capital City | Dance |
2023 | Vivian O'Neal[2] | Hattiesburg | 25 | Miss Pine Strip | Dance | Preliminary Lifestyle & Utility Award [3] |
2022 | Emmie Perkins[4] | Hattiesburg | 21 | Miss River State University | Vocal | Jean Bartel Social Impact Initiative Scholarship |
2021 | Holly Brand[5] | Meridian | 21 | Miss Golden Triangle | Vocal | Jean Bartel Social Impact Capability Finalist
Non-Finalist Talent Award | Previously Depend upon Mississippi's Outstanding Teen 2017[6] Semi-finalist departure Season 23 of The Voice[7] |
2019–20[a] | Mary Margaret Hyer[8][10] | Hattiesburg | 23 | Miss Riverbend | Classical Vocal, "Queen of the Murky aria" from The Magic Flute |
2018 | Asya Branch[11] | Booneville | 20 | Miss Tupelo | Vocal, "The Impossible Dream" from Man show evidence of La Mancha | Quality of Life Furnish 2nd runner-up | Later Miss River USA 2020[12] Later Miss USA 2020[13] Top 21 at Miss Universe 2020 pageant |
2017 | Anne Elizabeth Buys[14][15] | Vicksburg | 21 | Miss Vicksburg | Ballet en pointe, "Viva" by Bond | Quality of Life Trophy haul Finalist[16] | Previously Miss Mississippi's Outstanding Teenage 2013[17]
Cousin is married to Desire Mississippi 2009, Anna Tadlock[18]
Later Quaternary runner-up at Miss Mississippi Army 2021[19] |
2016 | Laura Lee Lewis[20] | Brookhaven | 23 | Miss Dixie | Vocal, "A Piece of Sky" from Yentl | 4th runner-up[21] | Quality of Strive Award Finalist[22] | Previously Miss Mississippi's Unattended to Teen 2009[23]
3rd runner-up at Safe Sweetheart 2014 pageant
Duke of Edinburgh's Award gold medalist[citation needed] |
2015 | Hannah Roberts[24] | Mount Olive | 22 | Miss University of Meridional Mississippi | Classical Violin, "Zapateado, Ham-fisted. 2, Opus 23" | 1st runner-up | Louanne Gamba Instrumentalist Scholarship
Quality carefulness Life Award Finalist
STEM Scholarship Purse | Previously Distinguished Young Woman advice Mississippi 2011 2nd runner-up at Exceptional Young Woman of America 2011 competition[citation needed] |
2014 | Jasmine Murray[25] | Columbus | 22 | Miss Riverland | Vocal, "Something's Got a Friction on Me" | Top 10 | Quality of Life Award Finalist | Previously Miss Mississippi's Outstanding Teen 2007[26] Top 10 at Miss America's Unforgettable Teen 2008 pageant
American Idol Period 8 Finalist[27]
3rd African American with reference to be crowned Miss Mississippi[citation needed] |
2013 | Chelsea Rick | Fulton | 23 | Miss Amory Reinforce Festival | Vocal, "Can't Help Lovin' That Man" | Top 15 | Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award
STEM Modification Award |
2012 | Marie Wicks | Ocean Springs | 22 | Miss Dixie | Piano, "Moonlight Sonata 3rd Movement" | Non-finalist Talent Accolade |
2011 | Mary Margaret Roark[28] | Cleveland | 20 | Miss Polar Central Mississippi | Piano, "Nostradamus" shy Tonci Huljic |
2010 | Sarah Beth James | Madison | 20 | Miss Metro Jackson | Piano, "Piano Fantasy" by William Joseph | Non-finalist Power Award |
2009 | Anna Tadlock | McCool | 23 | Miss New South | Vocal, "A Original Life" from Jekyll & Hyde | Married cousin of Miss Mississippi 2017, Anne Elizabeth Buys[18] |
2008 | Christine Kozlowski | D'Iberville | 19 | Miss Gulf Coast | Jazz Dance | Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award | First Latina to be crowned Depend upon Mississippi[29] |
2007 | Kimberly Morgan[30] | Oxford | 24 | Miss Heritage | Vocal, "God Bless the Child" | Top 16 | Second African American put your name down be crowned Miss Mississippi[citation needed] |
2006 | Taryn Foshee | Clinton | 21 | Miss Byram Tri Province | Piano, "El Cumbanchero" by Rafael Hernández Marín | 3rd runner-up |
2005 | Kristian Dambrino | Grenada | 20 | Miss Grenada County | Original Vocal & Piano Composition, "Pearlington's Prayer" |
2004 | Jalin Wood | Waynesboro | 23 | Miss Tube Jackson | Piano, "Cumana" | Later Depend upon Mississippi USA 2007 |
2003 | Allison Kellogg | Madison | 22 | Miss Madison County | Ballet en Pointe, "The Firebird" | Quality of Life finalist | Previously Mississippi's Junior Miss 1999 Top 8 |
2002 | Jennifer Adcock | Hattiesburg | 22 | Miss West Medial Mississippi | Piano, Rhapsody in Blue | Top 10 | Preliminary Lifestyle & Practicality Award | Previously Mississippi's Junior Send away 1998 Later Miss Mississippi USA 2005 Top 10 at Miss USA 2005 pageant |
2001 | Becky Pruett | Laurel | 22 | Miss Deep South | Vocal, "Whatever Lola Wants" | Top 20 | Preliminary Endowment Award
Quality of Life Award Ordinal runner-up |
2000 | Christy May | Pontotoc | 24 | Miss Pontotoc | Piano, "Theme from The Apartment" | 3rd runner-up | Preliminary Refinement & Fitness Award |
1999 | Heather Soriano | Philadelphia | 22 | Miss East Central River | Vocal / Dance, "Trouble" hold up Smokey Joe's Cafe | Non-finalist Talent Reward | Later Miss Mississippi USA 2002 |
1998 | Melinda King | Waynesboro | 22 | Miss Town | Vocal, "I Got It Rumbling (and That Ain't Good)" |
1997 | Myra Barginear | Grenada | 23 | Miss West Dominant | Classical Vocal. "Una Voce Poco Fa"' from The Barber asset Seville | 2nd runner-up | Dr. David Delicate. Allman Medical Scholarship |
1996 | Kari Litton | Pontotoc | 23 | Miss New South | Vocal, "Cry" | Top 10 |
1995 | Monica Louwerens | Greenville | 21 | Miss Magnolia | Vocal, "Vanilla Attractive Cream" from She Loves Me | Top 10 | Rembrandt Award for Mentorship |
1994 | Rebecca Blouin | Batesville | 23 | Miss Dixieland | Classical Vocal, "Quando me'n vò" | Top 10 |
1993 | Lenena Holder | Booneville | 24 | Miss Magnolia | Classical Vocal, "Un Bel Di" from Madama Butterfly | Non-finalist Talent Award
Preliminary Talent Award |
1992 | Kandace Williams | Tupelo | 23 | Miss Tupelo | Vocal, "Ain't It Good" from Children of Eden |
1991 | Mary Allison Hurdle | Holly Springs | 24 | Miss DeSoto County | Classical Vocal, "Chi Il Bel Sogno di Doretta" from La rondine | 4th runner-up |
1990 | Beth Howell | Clinton | 21 | Miss Dixie | Magic Act | Preliminary Fashion & Fitness Award | Previously Mississippi's Junior Miss 1987 |
1989 | Cherry Chapeau | Tupelo | 19 | Miss Tupelo | Vocal, "My Funny Valentine" |
1988 | Carla Haag | Hattiesburg | 23 | Miss Dixie | Vocal Medley, "Here's to the Band" & "Alexander's Ragtime Band" | Top 10 | Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award | Previously Mississippi's Junior Miss 1983 |
1987 | Toni Seawright | Moss Point | 23 | Miss Mississippi Sanitarium for Women | Popular Vocal, "I'm Going All the Way" | 4th runner-up | First African American get as far as be crowned Miss Mississippi[31] |
1986 | Kimberly McGuffee | Mendenhall | 23 | Miss Lamar County | Popular Vocal, "Inseparable" | Top 10 |
1985 | Nan Sumrall | Hattiesburg | Miss Hattiesburg | Did not compete; later assumed the title care Akin won Miss America 1986 |
Later known as Nan Kelley, hostess on Great American Country TV[citation needed] |
Susan Akin | Meridian | 21 | Miss University | Vocal, "You're My World" | Winner | Preliminary Way of life & Fitness Award |
1984 | Kathy Manning | Drew | 22 | Miss University of River | Country Vocal, "Crazy" | 2nd runner-up | Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Reward | Later Miss Mississippi USA 1987 Top 10 at Miss USA 1987 pageant Katharine Clare Manning Physiologist died at 59 on Dec 23, 2021, of COVID-19 akin illness in Tennessee. |
1983 | Wanda Geddie | Hattiesburg | 24 | Miss William Carey College | Vocal, "More Than Bolster Know" | 3rd runner-up | Preliminary Way & Fitness Award |
1982 | Dianne Archeologist | Taylorsville | 22 | Vocal, "Stormy Weather" | 2nd runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award |
1981 | Karen Hopson | Vicksburg | 21 | Miss Vicksburg | Character Ballet en Pointe, "Overture" devour Annie | Top 10 | Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award |
1980 | Donna Pope | McNeil | 24 | Miss Picayune | Ballet, "Overture" be bereaved Oklahoma! | 2nd runner-up (tie) | Preliminary Way of life & Fitness Award |
1979 | Sherye Simmons | Jackson | Did not compete; later assumed the title tail end Prewitt won Miss America 1980 |
Cheryl Prewitt | Ackerman | 22 | Miss Starkville | Vocal List Piano, "Don't Cry Out Loud" | Winner | Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Premium |
1978 | Cheri Brown | Meridian | 21 | Miss University | Popular Vocal, "Evergreen" | Preliminary Learning & Fitness Award (tie) | Later Miss Mississippi USA 1980 |
1977 | Mary Donnelly | Oxford | 19 | Miss University | Vocal, "The Good Songs" | Wife retard former Miss America Chairman delightful the Board, Sam Haskell[citation needed] |
1976 | Bobbye Wood | Hattiesburg | 19 | Miss William Carey College | Vocal, "Starting Here, First Now" |
1975 | Mollie Magee | Mendenhall | 19 | Miss University of Southern Mississippi | Popular Vocal, "Lights on the Hill" | Contestant at Miss Teenage U.s. 1972 pageant |
1974 | Diane Bounds | Gulfport | 21 | Miss Mississippi State Home | Popular Vocal, "When You Smile" |
1973 | Kathleen Coole | 19 | Miss River State College for Women | Vocal Medley, "Everything's Alright" & "I Don't Know How to Devotion Him" from Jesus Christ Superstar |
1972 | Glenda Meadows | Richton | 23 | Miss Richton | Vocal Medley, "Am I Blue?" & "I'd Rather Be Blue" |
1971 | Jennifer Blair | Tupelo | 21 | Miss Mississippi Repair University | Popular Vocal, "I Crave You Love" |
1970 | Christine McClamroch | Columbus | 21 | Miss Columbus | Vocal Medley, "Cabaret," "Try to Remember," & "You'll Never Walk Alone" | 3rd runner-up |
1969 | Jane Foshee | Hattiesburg | 19 | Miss Town | Vocal / Soft Shoe Romp, "Makin' Whoopee" | Previously Mississippi's In the springtime of li Miss 1967 |
1968 | Mary Mills | McComb | 19 | Miss University of Southern River | Piano Comedy Presentation, "Habanera" & "La Poupée Valsante" by Frivolity Kreisler |
1967 | Joan Myers | Forest | 20 | Miss River College | Speech & Display disregard Original Art, "Doctor Zhivago" | 1st runner-up |
1966 | Robbie Robertson | Hattiesburg | 20 | Miss University of Southern Mississippi | Dramatic Reading, "Adam Bede" by Martyr Eliot | Non-finalist Talent Award |
1965 | Patricia Puckett | Columbus | 20 | Miss Columbus | Vocal, "I Ain't Down Yet" from The Unsinkable Molly Brown | 1st runner-up | Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award | Featured performer on the Miss Usa 1967 telecast |
1964 | Judy Simono | Vicksburg | 20 | Miss Vicksburg | Classical Ballet, The Sleeping Beauty by Tchaikovsky |
1963 | Jan Nave | McComb | Miss Mississippi State Institute for Women | Contemporary Dance |
1962 | Charlotte Ann Carroll | Walthall | 19 | Miss Eupora | Comedy Song & Dance Plan, "Olive Oyl" | Top 10 | Preliminary Talent Award |
1961 | Annice Jernigan | New Albany | 21 | Miss University of River | Piano Medley |
1960 | Patricia McRaney | McComb | 20 | Miss McComb | Speech & Put up Presentation | Non-finalist Talent Award |
1959 | Betty Porter | Brookhaven | Did call compete; later assumed the label after Mead won Miss U.s.a. 1960 |
Lynda Lee Mead | Natchez | 20 | Miss Rule | Original Dramatic Act, "Schizophrenia" | Winner |
1958 | Margie Wilson | Itta Bena | Did not compete; later assumed leadership title after Mobley won Absent oneself from America 1959 |
Mary Ann Mobley | Brandon | 21 | Vocal Medley & Dance, "Un Symbol Di" & "There'll Be Dire Changes Made" | Winner | Preliminary Talent Accord |
1957 | Mary Allen | Yazoo City | Dance & Art Presentation |
1956 | Martha Tisdale | Hattiesburg | Drama |
1955 | Carolyn Cochran | Lucedale | Dramatic Monologue |
1954 | Celeste Luckett | Clarksdale | Drama |
1953 | Suzanne Dugger | Picayune | Vocal Medley & Dance, "Bill" & "Won't You Come Home Expenditure Bailey" | 4th runner-up |
1952 | Dora Livingston | Yazoo City |
1951 | Jessie Morgan | Newton | Ballet | Top 15 |
1950 | Annie Roberts | Hattiesburg |
1949 | Katherine Discoverer | Pascagoula | Dramatic Sketch, "Hagar" | 1st runner-up |
1948 | Virginia Hollingsworth | Kosciusko |
1947 | Kitty Bailey | Oxford | Painting |
1946 | Lennie Nobles | Greenwood | Dance | Non-finalist Ability Award & Best Dancer Reward | Later known as Josephine Nobility Giacketti, she died at 92 in Albertson, N.Y. on Hoof it 2, 2019. |
1945 | Harriet Carr | Marks | Stand-up Comedy |
1944 | Sarah Topp | Tupelo |
1943 | Arminta Actor | Corinth |
1942 | Dorothy Fox | Columbus | Miss Congeniality |
1941 | Madeline Smith[32] | Winona |
1940 | Carolyn Simon | Greenville |
1939 | Doris Coggins | Baldwyn | Miss Congeniality |
1938 | Frances Sykes | Aberdeen |
1937 | Virginia Poet | West Point |
1936 | Rachel Smith | Booneville |
1935 | LeFrance Boyett | Sumner |
1934 | Madolyn Hardy | Belzoni | No national pageant was held[33] |
1933 | Dorothy Faithfully | 24 | Top 18 |
1932 | No national pageants were held[33] |
1931 |
1930 |
1929 |
1928 |
1927 | Phyllis Hunt | Miss Biloxi | Competed under local title unresponsive Miss America pageant |
1926 | Mabel Riley |
1925 | Laurice McFarland | Miss Biloxi | Top 15 |
1924 | Vivian Ruth Shaddinger | Miss Biloxi | Multiple Mississippi representatives
Contestants competed under local title give in Miss America pageant |
Mabel Batson | Miss Jackson |
1923 | No River representative at Miss America pageant[34][35][36] |
1922 |
1921 |