| Year
|
Name
|
Hometown
|
Age
|
Local Title
|
Miss America Talent
|
Placement at Miss America
|
Special scholarships at Miss America
|
Notes
|
| 2024
|
Becky Williams[1]
|
Purvis
|
22
|
Miss Capital City
|
Dance
|
|
|
| 2023
|
Vivian O'Neal[2]
|
Hattiesburg
|
25
|
Miss Pine Belt
|
Dance
|
|
Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award [3]
|
|
| 2022
|
Emmie Perkins[4]
|
Hattiesburg
|
21
|
Miss Mississippi State University
|
Vocal
|
|
Jean Bartel Social Impact Initiative Scholarship
|
|
| 2021
|
Holly Brand[5]
|
Meridian
|
21
|
Miss Golden Triangle
|
Vocal
|
|
Jean Bartel Social Impact Initiative Finalist
Non-Finalist Talent Award
|
Previously Miss Mississippi's Outstanding Teen 2017[6]
Semi-finalist on Season 23 of The Voice [7]
|
| 2019–20[a]
|
Mary Margaret Hyer[8][10]
|
Hattiesburg
|
23
|
Miss Riverbend
|
Classical Vocal, "Queen of the Night aria" from The Magic Flute
|
|
|
|
| 2018
|
Asya Branch[11]
|
Booneville
|
20
|
Miss Tupelo
|
Vocal, "The Impossible Dream" from Man of La Mancha
|
|
Quality of Life Award 2nd runner-up
|
Later Miss Mississippi 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 Award Finalist[16]
|
Previously Miss Mississippi's Outstanding Teen 2013[17]
Cousin is married to Miss Mississippi 2009, Anna Tadlock[18]
Later 4th runner-up at Miss Mississippi USA 2021[19]
|
| 2016
|
Laura Lee Lewis[20]
|
Brookhaven
|
23
|
Miss Dixie
|
Vocal, "A Piece of Sky" from Yentl
|
4th runner-up[21]
|
Quality of Life Award Finalist[22]
|
Previously Miss Mississippi's Outstanding Teen 2009[23]
3rd runner-up at National Sweetheart 2014 pageant
Duke of Edinburgh's Award gold medalist[citation needed]
|
| 2015
|
Hannah Roberts[24]
|
Mount Olive
|
22
|
Miss University of Southern Mississippi
|
Classical Violin, "Zapateado, No. 2, Opus 23"
|
1st runner-up
|
Louanne Gamba Instrumentalist Scholarship
Quality of Life Award Finalist
STEM Scholarship Award
|
Previously Distinguished Young Woman of Mississippi 2011
2nd runner-up at Distinguished Young Woman of America 2011 competition[citation needed]
|
| 2014
|
Jasmine Murray[25]
|
Columbus
|
22
|
Miss Riverland
|
Vocal, "Something's Got a Hold on Me"
|
Top 10
|
Quality of Life Award Finalist
|
Previously Miss Mississippi's Outstanding Teen 2007[26]
Top 10 at Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2008 pageant
American Idol Season 8 Finalist[27]
3rd African American to be crowned Miss Mississippi[citation needed]
|
| 2013
|
Chelsea Rick
|
Fulton
|
23
|
Miss Amory Railroad Festival
|
Vocal, "Can't Help Lovin' That Man"
|
Top 15
|
Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award
STEM Scholarship Award
|
|
| 2012
|
Marie Wicks
|
Ocean Springs
|
22
|
Miss Dixie
|
Piano, "Moonlight Sonata 3rd Movement"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 2011
|
Mary Margaret Roark[28]
|
Cleveland
|
20
|
Miss North Central Mississippi
|
Piano, "Nostradamus" by Tonci Huljic
|
|
|
|
| 2010
|
Sarah Beth James
|
Madison
|
20
|
Miss Metro Jackson
|
Piano, "Piano Fantasy" by William Joseph
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 2009
|
Anna Tadlock
|
McCool
|
23
|
Miss New South
|
Vocal, "A New 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 Miss Mississippi[29]
|
| 2007
|
Kimberly Morgan[30]
|
Oxford
|
24
|
Miss Heritage
|
Vocal, "God Bless the Child"
|
Top 16
|
|
Second African American to be crowned Miss Mississippi[citation needed]
|
| 2006
|
Taryn Foshee
|
Clinton
|
21
|
Miss Byram Tri County
|
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 Metro Jackson
|
Piano, "Cumana"
|
|
|
Later Miss 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 Central Mississippi
|
Piano, Rhapsody in Blue
|
Top 10
|
Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award
|
Previously Mississippi's Junior Miss 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 Talent Award
Quality of Life Award 2nd runner-up
|
|
| 2000
|
Christy May
|
Pontotoc
|
24
|
Miss Pontotoc
|
Piano, "Theme from The Apartment"
|
3rd runner-up
|
Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award
|
|
| 1999
|
Heather Soriano
|
Philadelphia
|
22
|
Miss East Central Mississippi
|
Vocal / Dance, "Trouble" from Smokey Joe's Cafe
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
Later Miss Mississippi USA 2002
|
| 1998
|
Melinda King
|
Waynesboro
|
22
|
Miss Hattiesburg
|
Vocal, "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)"
|
|
|
|
| 1997
|
Myra Barginear
|
Grenada
|
23
|
Miss West Central
|
Classical Vocal. "Una Voce Poco Fa"' from The Barber of Seville
|
2nd runner-up
|
Dr. David B. Allman Medical Scholarship
|
|
| 1996
|
Kari Litton
|
Pontotoc
|
23
|
Miss New South
|
Vocal, "Cry"
|
Top 10
|
|
|
| 1995
|
Monica Louwerens
|
Greenville
|
21
|
Miss Magnolia
|
Vocal, "Vanilla Ice 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 Lifestyle & Fitness Award
|
Previously Mississippi's Junior Miss 1987
|
| 1989
|
Cherry Busby
|
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 University for Women
|
Popular Vocal, "I'm Going All the Way"
|
4th runner-up
|
|
First African American to 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 after Akin won Miss America 1986
|
|
|
Later known as Nan Kelley, host on Great American Country TV[citation needed]
|
| Susan Akin
|
Meridian
|
21
|
Miss University
|
Vocal, "You're My World"
|
Winner
|
Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award
|
|
| 1984
|
Kathy Manning
|
Drew
|
22
|
Miss University of Mississippi
|
Country Vocal, "Crazy"
|
2nd runner-up
|
Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award
|
Later Miss Mississippi USA 1987
Top 10 at Miss USA 1987 pageant
Katharine Clare Manning Loeb died at 59 on December 23, 2021, of COVID-19 related illness in Tennessee.
|
| 1983
|
Wanda Geddie
|
Hattiesburg
|
24
|
Miss William Carey College
|
Vocal, "More Than You Know"
|
3rd runner-up
|
Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award
|
|
| 1982
|
Dianne Evans
|
Taylorsville
|
22
|
Vocal, "Stormy Weather"
|
2nd runner-up
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
| 1981
|
Karen Hopson
|
Vicksburg
|
21
|
Miss Vicksburg
|
Character Ballet en Pointe, "Overture" from Annie
|
Top 10
|
Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award
|
|
| 1980
|
Donna Pope
|
McNeil
|
24
|
Miss Picayune
|
Ballet, "Overture" from Oklahoma!
|
2nd runner-up (tie)
|
Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award
|
|
| 1979
|
Sherye Simmons
|
Jackson
|
|
|
|
Did not compete; later assumed the title after Prewitt won Miss America 1980
|
| Cheryl Prewitt
|
Ackerman
|
22
|
Miss Starkville
|
Vocal / Piano, "Don't Cry Out Loud"
|
Winner
|
Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award
|
|
| 1978
|
Cheri Brown
|
Meridian
|
21
|
Miss Oxford
|
Popular Vocal, "Evergreen"
|
|
Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award (tie)
|
Later Miss Mississippi USA 1980
|
| 1977
|
Mary Donnelly
|
Oxford
|
19
|
Miss University
|
Vocal, "The Good Songs"
|
|
|
Wife of former Miss America Chairman of the Board, Sam Haskell[citation needed]
|
| 1976
|
Bobbye Wood
|
Hattiesburg
|
19
|
Miss William Carey College
|
Vocal, "Starting Here, Starting Now"
|
|
|
|
| 1975
|
Mollie Magee
|
Mendenhall
|
19
|
Miss University of Southern Mississippi
|
Popular Vocal, "Lights on the Hill"
|
|
|
Contestant at Miss Teenage America 1972 pageant
|
| 1974
|
Diane Bounds
|
Gulfport
|
21
|
Miss Mississippi State University
|
Popular Vocal, "When You Smile"
|
|
|
|
| 1973
|
Kathleen Coole
|
19
|
Miss Mississippi State College for Women
|
Vocal Medley, "Everything's Alright" & "I Don't Know How to Love 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 State University
|
Popular Vocal, "I Wish 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 Hattiesburg
|
Vocal / Soft Shoe Dance, "Makin' Whoopee"
|
|
|
Previously Mississippi's Junior Miss 1967
|
| 1968
|
Mary Mills
|
McComb
|
19
|
Miss University of Southern Mississippi
|
Piano Comedy Presentation, "Habanera" & "La Poupée Valsante" by Fritz Kreisler
|
|
|
|
| 1967
|
Joan Myers
|
Forest
|
20
|
Miss Mississippi College
|
Speech & Display of Original Art, "Doctor Zhivago"
|
1st runner-up
|
|
|
| 1966
|
Robbie Robertson
|
Hattiesburg
|
20
|
Miss University of Southern Mississippi
|
Dramatic Reading, "Adam Bede" by George 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 America 1967 telecast
|
| 1964
|
Judy Simono
|
Vicksburg
|
20
|
Miss Vicksburg
|
Classical Ballet, The Sleeping Beauty by Tchaikovsky
|
|
|
|
| 1963
|
Jan Nave
|
McComb
|
|
Miss Mississippi State College for Women
|
Contemporary Dance
|
|
|
|
| 1962
|
Charlotte Ann Carroll
|
Walthall
|
19
|
Miss Eupora
|
Comedy Song & Dance Routine, "Olive Oyl"
|
Top 10
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
| 1961
|
Annice Jernigan
|
New Albany
|
21
|
Miss University of Mississippi
|
Piano Medley
|
|
|
|
| 1960
|
Patricia McRaney
|
McComb
|
20
|
Miss McComb
|
Speech & Art Presentation
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 1959
|
Betty Porter
|
Brookhaven
|
|
|
|
Did not compete; later assumed the title after Mead won Miss America 1960
|
| Lynda Lee Mead
|
Natchez
|
20
|
Miss University
|
Original Dramatic Act, "Schizophrenia"
|
Winner
|
|
|
| 1958
|
Margie Wilson
|
Itta Bena
|
|
|
|
Did not compete; later assumed the title after Mobley won Miss America 1959
|
| Mary Ann Mobley
|
Brandon
|
21
|
|
Vocal Medley & Dance, "Un Bel Di" & "There'll Be Some Changes Made"
|
Winner
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
| 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 Bill Bailey"
|
4th runner-up
|
|
|
| 1952
|
Dora Livingston
|
Yazoo City
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1951
|
Jessie Morgan
|
Newton
|
|
|
Ballet
|
Top 15
|
|
|
| 1950
|
Annie Roberts
|
Hattiesburg
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1949
|
Katherine Wright
|
Pascagoula
|
|
|
Dramatic Sketch, "Hagar"
|
1st runner-up
|
|
|
| 1948
|
Virginia Hollingsworth
|
Kosciusko
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1947
|
Kitty Bailey
|
Oxford
|
|
|
Painting
|
|
|
|
| 1946
|
Lennie Nobles
|
Greenwood
|
|
|
Dance
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award & Best Dancer Award
|
Later known as Josephine Nobles Giacketti, she died at 92 in Albertson, N.Y. on March 2, 2019.
|
| 1945
|
Harriet Carr
|
Marks
|
|
|
Stand-up Comedy
|
|
|
|
| 1944
|
Sarah Topp
|
Tupelo
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1943
|
Arminta Scott
|
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 Riley
|
West Point
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1936
|
Rachel Smith
|
Booneville
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1935
|
LeFrance Boyett
|
Sumner
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1934
|
Madolyn Hardy
|
Belzoni
|
|
|
|
No national pageant was held[33]
|
|
| 1933
|
Dorothy Ely
|
|
24
|
|
|
Top 18
|
|
|
| 1932
|
No national pageants were held[33]
|
| 1931
|
| 1930
|
| 1929
|
| 1928
|
| 1927
|
Phyllis Hunt
|
|
|
Miss Biloxi
|
|
|
|
Competed under local title at 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 at Miss America pageant
|
| Mabel Batson
|
|
|
Miss Jackson
|
|
|
|
| 1923
|
No Mississippi representative at Miss America pageant[34][35][36]
|
| 1922
|
| 1921
|
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