| Year
|
Name
|
Hometown
|
Age
|
Local Title
|
Miss America Talent
|
Placement at Miss America
|
Special scholarships at Miss America
|
Notes
|
| 2024
|
Alexis Smith
|
Wichita
|
25
|
Miss Butler County
|
Ventriloquism
|
|
|
|
| 2023
|
Courtney Wages[1]
|
25
|
Miss Southern Kansas
|
Tap Dance
|
Top 11
|
People's Choice
|
|
| 2022
|
Ayanna Hensley[2]
|
Dodge City
|
21
|
Miss Kiowa County
|
Dance
|
|
|
|
| 2021
|
Taylor Clark[3]
|
St. John
|
21
|
Miss Augusta
|
Drums
|
|
|
Previously Miss Kansas' Outstanding Teen 2017[4]
|
| 2019–20[a]
|
Annika Wooton[6]
|
Overland Park
|
25
|
Miss Wichita
|
Speed Painting, "Free To Be" Original Poem while painting a portrait of Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg[7]
|
Top 15[8]
|
Social Impact Initiative Scholarship Award[9]
Non-Finalist Talent Award
|
Competed for the Miss Kansas title a total of seven times[6]
Served two years due to COVID-19 pandemic[10]
|
| 2018
|
Hannah Klaassen[11]
|
Arkansas City
|
19
|
Miss South Central
|
Tap Dance, "The Greatest Show" from The Greatest Showman
|
|
CMN Miracle Maker Award 1st runner-up
|
|
| 2017
|
Krystian Fish[12]
|
Wichita
|
21
|
Miss Heart of the Midwest
|
Vocal, "They Just Keep Moving the Line" from Smash
|
|
Quality of Life Award Finalist[13]
|
|
| 2016
|
Kendall Schoenekase[14]
|
Overland Park
|
22
|
Miss Johnson County
|
Vocal, "Ain't No Sunshine"
|
|
CMN Miracle Maker Award 2nd runner-up[15]
Quality of Life Award 1st runner-up[15]
STEM Scholarship Award[15]
|
4th runner-up at Miss Kansas Teen USA 2011 competition[16]
|
| 2015
|
Hannah Wagner
|
Wichita
|
19
|
Miss Augusta
|
Ballet en Pointe, Swan Lake
|
|
|
|
| 2014
|
Amanda Sasek
|
Moberly, MO
|
23
|
Miss Greater Wichita
|
Vocal, "I Don't Know My Own Strength"
|
|
|
|
| 2013
|
Theresa Vail
|
Manhattan
|
22
|
Miss Leavenworth County
|
Vocal, "Nessun Dorma"
|
Top 10
|
America's Choice
|
First Miss America contestant to display tattoos in the swimsuit competition[17][18]
|
| 2012
|
Sloane Lewis
|
Norwich
|
22
|
Miss Wooded Hills
|
Self-arranged Piano, "River Storm"
|
|
|
|
| 2011
|
Carissa Kelley[19]
|
Winfield
|
24
|
Dance, "Rolling in the Deep"
|
|
|
Previously Miss Kansas Teen USA 2004
|
| 2010
|
Lauren Werhan
|
Wichita
|
20
|
Miss Southwest
|
Ballet en Pointe, "Asturias"
|
|
|
|
| 2009
|
Becki Ronen
|
Buhler
|
20
|
Miss Flint Hills
|
Classical Trumpet, "Stars in a Velvety Sky"
|
|
|
|
| 2008
|
Emily Deaver
|
Augusta
|
19
|
Miss Augusta
|
Piano / Vocal, "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?"
|
|
|
|
| 2007
|
Alyssa George[20]
|
Minneapolis
|
21
|
Miss Sedgwick County
|
Classical Piano
|
|
|
|
| 2006
|
Michelle Walthers
|
Towanda
|
21
|
Miss Augusta
|
Vocal, "Shy" from Once Upon a Mattress
|
|
|
|
| 2005
|
Adrienne Rosel
|
Liberal
|
23
|
Miss Wichita
|
Theatrical Vocal / Dance, "America" from West Side Story
|
|
Quality of Life Award Finalist
|
|
| 2004
|
Megan Bushell
|
Wichita
|
22
|
Miss Wheat Capital
|
Vocal, "When you Say you Love Me"
|
Top 10
|
Quality of Life Award Finalist
|
|
| 2003
|
Angelea Busby
|
Lenexa
|
21
|
Miss Cheney Lake
|
Interpretive Baton Twirling / Dance, Theme from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 2002
|
Jeanne Anne Schroeder
|
Hutchinson
|
24
|
Miss Chisholm Trail
|
Classical Vocal, "Time to Say Goodbye"
|
|
|
|
| 2001
|
Kimberlee Grice
|
Ulysses
|
23
|
Miss Kaw Valley
|
Vocal, "At Last"
|
|
Eleanor "Big Mama" Andrews Performing Arts Award[citation needed]
|
|
| 2000
|
Amy Lea Shaw
|
Derby
|
22
|
Miss Arkansas Valley
|
Classical Piano, "Prelude, Op. 23, No. 5" by Rachmaninoff
|
|
|
|
| 1999
|
Leah Darby
|
21
|
Miss Derby
|
Vocal "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misérables
|
|
|
|
| 1998
|
Jennifer Vannatta
|
Leawood
|
24
|
Miss Greater Kansas City
|
Vocal, "Le Jazz Hot" from Victor/Victoria
|
|
|
Co-director of the Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma state pageants for the Miss USA organization[21]
Married to JC Fisher of The Texas Tenors[21]
|
| 1997
|
Lesley Moss
|
Hoxie
|
24
|
Vocal, "You'll Have to Swing It"
|
|
|
|
| 1996
|
Jennifer Parks
|
Wichita
|
|
Miss Arkansas Valley
|
|
Did not compete; originally 3rd runner-up, later assumed title after Holland won Miss America 1997 when the other runners-up declined to take the title
|
| Tara Dawn Holland
|
Overland Park
|
23
|
Miss Flint Hills
|
Classical Vocal, "Où Va la Jeune Hindoue" from Lakmé
|
Winner
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
Quality of Life Award 1st runner-up
|
Previously National Sweetheart 1995 as Miss Florida
|
| 1995
|
Amy Keller
|
Great Bend
|
24
|
Miss Heartland
|
Classical Vocal, "Quando me'n vo'"
|
Top 10
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
|
|
| 1994
|
Trisha Schaffer
|
Liberal
|
22
|
Miss Southwest
|
Popular Vocal, "Orange Colored Sky"
|
Top 10
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
| 1993
|
Lori Minnix
|
Lawrence
|
24
|
Miss KU/Lawrence
|
Classical Piano "Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor" by Tchaikovsky
|
|
|
|
| 1992
|
Pamela McKelvy
|
Kansas City
|
24
|
Miss Greater Kansas City
|
Popular Vocal, "I Am Changing"
|
3rd runner-up
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
| 1991
|
Robbin Lee Wasson
|
Lenexa
|
21
|
Miss Greater Kansas City
|
Vocal Medley, "How Long Has This Been Going On?" & "It's a Miracle"
|
Top 10
|
|
|
| 1990
|
Kimberly Dugger
|
Wichita
|
22
|
Miss Wichita
|
Semi-classical Vocal, "Love Is Where you Find It"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 1989
|
Jennifer Lyn Hedrick
|
Derby
|
22
|
Miss Fort Scott
|
Flute, "Carmen Fantasy" by Georges Bizet and François Borne
|
|
|
|
| 1988
|
Candice Cae Pyle
|
Dodge City
|
20
|
Miss Dodge City
|
Vocal, "Blue Moon"
|
|
|
|
| 1987
|
Sherri Lee Mayer
|
Brewster
|
26
|
Miss Harvey County
|
Dramatic Interpretation, "Clear Glass Marbles" from Talking With...
|
|
|
|
| 1986
|
Heather Lynn Clark
|
Benton
|
23
|
Miss Wichita
|
Vocal & Sign Language, "I'll Never Say Goodbye"
|
|
|
|
| 1985
|
Carolyn Jo Kirgis
|
Salina
|
25
|
Miss Blue Stem
|
Vocal, "Our Love Is Here to Stay"
|
|
|
Carolyn Jo Kirgis Johnson passed away in Phillipsburg, Kansas of complications with Multiple Sclerosis on July 24, 2022, at age 61.
|
| 1984
|
Nancy Lee Cobb
|
Wichita
|
20
|
Miss Lawrence
|
Piano / Vocal, "I Love New Orleans Music"
|
|
|
|
| 1983
|
Laura Lynn Watters[22]
|
Colby
|
22
|
Miss Troia-Thomas County
|
Trumpet Medley, "Sugar Blues" & "Wood Chopper's Ball"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 1982
|
Lisa Marie Berwick
|
Valley Center
|
21
|
Miss Wheatland
|
Vocal, "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
|
|
|
|
| 1981
|
Dawn Holmstrom
|
Wichita
|
20
|
Miss Wichita
|
Vocal Medley, "My Man" & "Happy Days Are Here Again"
|
|
|
|
| 1980
|
K. Leann Folsom
|
21
|
Miss Center City
|
Piano / Vocal, "Kiss Me in the Rain"
|
|
|
|
| 1979
|
Michelle Elaine Whitson
|
Mission
|
21
|
Miss Topeka
|
Harp, "Never on Sunday"
|
2nd runner-up
|
|
Previously National Sweetheart 1978[citation needed]
|
| 1978
|
Lori Ann Bergen
|
Salina
|
20
|
Miss Salina
|
Violin, "Csárdás" & "Orange Blossom Special"
|
Top 10
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
| 1977
|
Jill Dirks
|
Wichita
|
22
|
Miss Wichita
|
Vocal, "Open Your Heart"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 1976
|
Linda Hall
|
Hill City
|
21
|
Miss Frontier
|
Piano, Theme from The Apartment
|
|
|
Wife of former United States Senator Tom Daschle[citation needed]
|
| 1975
|
Jana Salmans[23]
|
Hanston
|
20
|
Miss Dodge City
|
Vocal, "Follow Me"
|
|
|
|
| 1974
|
Karen Smith
|
Shawnee
|
18
|
Miss Shawnee
|
Jazz / Acrobatic Dance, "The Entertainer"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
|
|
| 1973
|
Jane Schulte
|
Hays
|
21
|
Miss Fort Hays State College
|
Vocal Medley, "Happiest Girl in the Whole USA" & "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"
|
|
|
|
| 1972
|
Cynthia Sikes
|
Coffeyville
|
18
|
Miss Wichita
|
Vocal, "Fame"
|
Top 10
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
|
Starred as Dr. Annie Canavero on St. Elsewhere[citation needed]
|
| 1971
|
Sandy Rings
|
Topeka
|
20
|
Miss Topeka
|
Vocal / Ventriloquism, "Toyland"
|
Top 10
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
| 1970
|
Linda Susan Edds
|
Manhattan
|
21
|
Miss Manhattan
|
Popular Vocal, "The Windmills of Your Mind"
|
|
|
|
| 1969
|
Margo Sue Schroeder
|
Hillsboro
|
18
|
Miss Marion County Fair
|
Piano, "Sunny"
|
|
|
|
| 1968
|
Jane Kathryn Bair
|
Parsons
|
18
|
Miss Kansas State College of Pittsburg
|
Ballet Interpretation, "My Friend the Sea"
|
|
|
|
| 1967
|
Kandee Kae Klein
|
Tribune
|
|
Miss Garden City
|
|
Did not compete; later assumed the title after Barnes won Miss America 1968
|
| Debra Dene Barnes
|
Moran
|
20
|
Miss Kansas State College of Pittsburg
|
Piano, "Born Free"
|
Winner
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
|
|
| 1966
|
Betty Louise Fox
|
Emporia
|
20
|
Miss Emporia
|
Popular Vocal Medley, "A Foggy Day" & "The Girl from Ipanema"
|
|
|
|
| 1965
|
Mimi Frink
|
Lawrence
|
|
Miss Eudora
|
|
Did not compete; later assumed the title after Bryant won Miss America 1966
|
| Deborah Irene Bryant
|
Overland Park
|
19
|
Miss Overland Park
|
Dramatic Interpretation, "The Miserable Miserliness of Midas Moneybags"
|
Winner
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
|
Previously Miss Kansas World 1963 and Top 7 finalist at Miss USA World 1963.
|
| 1964
|
Catherine Bergstrom
|
Kansas City
|
21
|
Miss Lawrence
|
|
N/A
|
1st runner-up at Miss Kansas 1964 pageant
Assumed title after Savage was killed in an auto accident
|
| Sharon Margene Savage
|
Florence
|
20
|
Miss Marion County Fair
|
Vocal, "Johnny One Note" & "Ritorna Vincitor" from Aida
|
|
|
During her reign she was killed in an auto accident near Peabody, Kansas[citation needed]
|
| 1963
|
Karen Raye Schwartz
|
Pratt
|
20
|
Miss Wichita
|
Classical Vocal, "Voi la Sapete" from Cavalleria rusticana
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 1962
|
Beverly June Wood
|
Prairie Village
|
18
|
Miss Kansas City
|
Charleston Dance
|
|
|
|
| 1961
|
Carolyn Jane Parkinson
|
Scott City
|
20
|
Miss Lawrence
|
Musical Reading, "Hello Kansas"
|
|
|
|
| 1960
|
Gayla Leigh Shoemake
|
El Dorado
|
19
|
Miss El Dorado
|
Original Dramatic Interpretation, "Rude Awakening"
|
|
|
|
| 1959
|
Sharon O'Neal
|
Kansas City
|
18
|
Miss Kansas City
|
Dramatic Interpretation
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 1958
|
Sharon Whitacre
|
Mission
|
18
|
Accordion, "3rd Movement of Concerto in A" by Pietro Deiro
|
|
|
|
| 1957
|
Georgiana Rundle
|
Axtell
|
21
|
Miss Kansas State
|
Vocal, "Habanera" & "Getting to Know You"
|
|
|
|
| 1956
|
Mary Ann McGrew
|
Wellington
|
19
|
Miss Lawrence
|
Dramatic Reading, "Understanding Others"
|
3rd runner-up (tie)
|
|
|
| 1955
|
Gail White
|
Arkansas City
|
|
|
Piano
|
|
|
|
| 1954
|
Phyllis Danielson
|
Wichita
|
|
|
Vocal
|
|
|
|
| 1953
|
Joanne Milnar
|
Hutchinson
|
23
|
|
Water Ballet
|
|
|
|
| 1952
|
Kay Ann Goforth
|
McPherson
|
|
|
Vocal / Dance
|
|
|
|
| 1951
|
No Kansas representative at Miss America pageant[24]
|
| 1950
|
Anabel Baker
|
Wichita
|
|
|
Dramatic Monologue from Macbeth
|
|
|
|
| 1949
|
Shirley Hargiss
|
Topeka
|
|
|
Vocal, "Cecilia On a See-Saw"
|
Top 15
|
|
|
| 1948
|
Vera June Ralston
|
Wichita
|
18
|
Miss Wichita
|
Oratory
|
3rd runner-up
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
|
Better known as Vera Miles, whose acting career spanned 45 years[citation needed]
|
| 1947
|
Ruth Ellen Richmond
|
Fort Scott
|
|
Miss Pittsburg
|
Vocal, "Wonderful One"
|
|
|
|
| 1946
|
Joyce Blakemore
|
Liberal
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1945
|
No Kansas representative at Miss America pageant [25] |
| 1944
|
Grace Louise Pittman
|
Wichita
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1943
|
No Kansas representative at Miss America pageant[26][27][28][29]
|
| 1942
|
| 1941
|
| 1940
|
| 1939
|
Rosemary Winslow
|
Salina
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1938
|
Blanche Webb
|
Humboldt
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1937
|
Lucia Benton
|
Norton
|
|
|
|
Top 16
|
|
|
| 1936
|
No Kansas representative at Miss America pageant[30][31]
|
| 1935
|
| 1934
|
No national pageant was held[32]
|
| 1933
|
Pauline Sayre
|
|
23
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1932
|
No national pageants were held[32]
|
| 1931
|
| 1930
|
| 1929
|
| 1928
|
| 1927
|
Mildred Orr
|
|
|
Miss Wichita
|
|
|
|
No Miss Kansas
Competed as Miss Wichita at Miss America pageant
|
| 1926
|
Ruth Richardson
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1925
|
Wildeana Withers
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1924
|
Donna Frye
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1923
|
No Kansas representative at Miss America pageant[33][34][35]
|
| 1922
|
| 1921
|
