Miss Kentucky
For the state pageant affiliated with Miss USA, see Miss Kentucky USA.
Jenna Day, Miss Kentucky 2013 (middle) and Ramsey Carpenter, Miss Kentucky 2014 (right)
Djuan Trent, Miss Kentucky 2010 at the D.C. Central Kitchen in Washington, D.C.
Heather French, Miss Kentucky 1999 and Miss America 2000 at the Lighthouse Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Clark Janell Davis | Lexington | 17 | Miss Horse Capital | a Cappella Vocal "Summertime" | Grew up with Dyslexia, youngest winner crowned in over 50 years. | ||
| 2014 | Ramsey Carpenter | Hartford | 23 | Miss My Old Kentucky Home | Fiddle "Sally Goodin" & "Orange Blossom Special" | Top 12 | Preliminary Talent Award, Louanne Gamba Instrumental Award | Diagnosed with Multiple sclerosis in 2012 |
| 2013 | Jenna Day | Louisville | 21 | Miss Berea Area | Vocal "And This Is My Beloved" | Top 15 | Top 10 at National Sweetheart 2011 | |
| 2012 | Jessica Casebolt | Pikeville | 19 | Miss Goldenrod | Vocal "Superstar" | Top 15 | 2nd runner-up at Miss Kentucky Junior Teen 2008, 4th runner-up at Miss Kentucky Teen USA 2009 | |
| 2011 | Ann-Blair Thornton | Bowling Green | 21 | Miss Bowling Green | Piano "Prelude in G Minor" | Quality of Life Award | Miss Kentucky's Outstanding Teen 2007 and 4th runner-up at Miss America's Outstanding Teen, 1st runner-up at 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 | 23 | Miss Bowling Green | Vocal "On My Own" from Les Misérables | 4th runner-up | 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, 18, 24) contestant |
| 2008 | Emily Cox | Campbellsville | 22 | Miss Bowling Green | Classical Piano "Impromptu in C Sharp Minor" by Hugo Reinhold | Top 12 | Quality of Life Award | 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 Malone Bell | ||
| 2006 | Rachelle Phillips | Princeton | 24 | Miss Heartland | Vocal "Cry Me a River" | 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 | Miss Kentucky Teen (MAO) 1999 | |
| 2003 | MacKenzie Mayes | Lexington | 23 | Miss Monticello | Vocal "I Surrender" | Quality of Life 1st runner-up, Non-finalist Talent Award | Kentucky's Junior Miss 1998, National Sweetheart 2000 | |
| 2002 | Mary Catherine Correll | Somerset | 21 | Miss Maysville Area | Vocal "The Prayer" | Quality of Life 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 precursor 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 Finalist | |
| 1999 | Shanna Kari Moore¹ | Marion | Miss Jeffersontown | Classical Piano | 4th runner-up (1998) & 3rd runner-up (1999) at 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 | National Sweetheart 1997 |
| 1997 | Lori Menshouse | Ashland | 24 | Miss Ashland Area | Piano "Revolutionary Etude" | Miss Kentucky USA 1999 | ||
| 1996 | Veronica Duka | Campbellsville | 19 | Miss Campbellsville | Vocal "Somewhere" | Top 10 | ||
| 1995 | Kristie Hicks | Bardstown | 23 | Miss Jeffersontown | Vocal "Stormy Weather" | Konica Visual Arts Scholarship | Miss Kentucky Teen USA 1989 and 1st runner-up at 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 Award | ||
| 1992 | Tawnya Mullins | Kimper | 25 | Miss Heart of Kentucky | Contemporary Clogging "Banjo Fantasy" | Top 10 | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |
| 1991 | Sheri Plambeck | Lexington | 23 | Miss Heart of the Bluegrass | Tap Dance "The Joint Is Jumpin'" | |||
| 1990 | Nancy Cox | Campbellsville | 22 | 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" | 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 Award | ||
| 1985 | Laurie Janine Keller | Nippa | 21 | Miss Floyd County | Vocal / Ballet en Pointe "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" | Top 10 | 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 | Allman Medical Scholarship | |
| 1983 | Lynn Thompson | Lexington | 24 | Miss Bluegrass Area | Popular Vocal "Yesterday When I Was Young" | Top 10 | ||
| 1982 | Gwendolyn Witten | Vine Grove | 23 | Miss Louisville | Semi-classical Vocal "And This Is My Beloved" | Top 10 | 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 Malone Bell | Lexington | 21 | Miss Lake Cumberland | Popular Vocal "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" | Top 10 | 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" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Miss America USO Troupe | |
| 1975 | Marsha Griffith | Greenup | 22 | Miss Ashland Area | Vocal / Trumpet "I Can See Clearly Now" | Non-finalist 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" | Miss America USO Troupe | ||
| 1972 | Diana Moore | Pikeville | 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 at Miss America 1973 but later resigned her duties[1] | |||
| 1971 | Robbie Halcomb | Scottsville | 19 | Miss Jeffersontown | Semi-classical Vocal "Italian Street Song" | Contestant at Miss Teenage America 1968 | ||
| 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" | 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 at Miss Sun Fun USA 1964 | ||
| 1964 | Linda Sawyer | Louisville | 21 | Miss Louisville | Vocal & Speech "Stephen Foster Medley" | Top 10 | Kentucky's Junior Miss 1961 and 1st runner-up at 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" | Contestant at Miss Dixie 1962 | ||
| 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 at Miss Dixie 1960 | ||
| 1958 | Sandra Smith | Harlan | Pantomime / Dance "Tweedle Dee" | Contestant at Miss Dixie 1959 | ||||
| 1957 | Jane Brock | Liberty | Piano | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||||
| 1956 | Janene Simpson | Louisville | Piano | |||||
| 1955 | Ann Gillock | Carrollton | Organ | |||||
| 1954 | Margaret Diane Hunt | Lexington | Dance | |||||
| 1953 | Emily Rucker | Berea | Vocal | |||||
| 1952 | Joy Williams | Lexington | 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 | |||||
| 1947 | Evelyn Murray | Louisville | Samba | Top 10 | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |||
| Margaret Allen Hill | Louisville | Vocal / Piano "It Had to Be You" | Competed as Miss Louisville | |||||
| 1946 | Mary Madonna Smith | Jenkins | Original winner, Emma Lee Blackford, was disqualified for being underage. | |||||
| Patricia Alden Fenton | Louisville | Artistic Exhibition & Sketch | Top 16 | Competed as Miss Louisville | ||||
| 1941 | Dorothy Slatten | Lexington | Top 15 | |||||
| 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 | ||||||
| 1938 | Evelyn Cooper | Somerset | Vocal "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" | |||||
| 1937 | Audrey Flaig | Bellevue | ||||||
| 1936 | Charlet Hiteman | Newport | Top 15 | Model appeared in shows in New York | ||||
| Jean Megerle | Fort Thomas | 19 | Top 15 | Competed as Miss Blue Grass | ||||
| 1935 | Jean Megerle | Fort Thomas | 18 | Vocal / Acrobatic Dance "I'll Never Say Never Again" | 2nd runner-up | |||
| 1933 | Lucille Rader | Berea | 14 | Top 18 | ||||
| 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. | ||||||
- 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.
- ↑ Palm Beach Post, "Local High School Girl Wins Title" September 3, 1940
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