Note:  This history section is slowly under construction.  This list shows all known titleholders who have represented Alabama in the Miss America Pageant.  In 1936, 1946, and 1948, two winners were crowned in the Miss Alabama/Birmingham Pageant and both competed at Miss America.  The titles of Miss Birmingham and Miss Alabama were both owned and administered by The Birmingham News and the primary title changed permanently to Miss Alabama after 1946.  The title of Miss Montgomery was initially a stand-alone pageant whose winner competed at Miss America from 1937 - 1940; Miss Montgomery later  competed as a local titleholder in the Miss Alabama Pageant.  The title of Miss Mobile was also initially a stand-alone pageant whose winner competed at Miss America in 1926; Miss Mobile later competed as a local titleholder in the Miss Alabama Pageant.  The current system in use, which allows only the winners of local pageants to compete in the Miss Alabama Pageant with no at-large contestants in the state pageant, has been in place since about 1971.  Miss America was not held in 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, and 1934.  
       
       
       
Summary of Miss America Awards (through Miss America 2012):  
   
Miss America: 3 Preliminary Talent Awards:   17  
1st Runner-up: 3 Preliminary Swimsuit Awards: 11  
2nd Runner-up: 5    
3rd Runner-up: 5    
4th Runner-up: 5    
Total Top 5 Placements:  21    
Top Ten Only:  17    
Top Thirteen Only:  1 Legend:  
Top Fifteen Only:  7 PTA = Preliminary Talent Award  
Total Top 15 or higher:  46 PSA = Preliminary Swimsuit Award  
Miss Congeniality:  2 QL = Miss America Quality of Life Award  
Non-Finalist Talent Award:  2 CMN = Children's Miracle Network Fundraising  
Non-Finalist Interview Award:  1    
       
       
       

Miss Alabama Titleholders:

 

 Year  Titleholder  Miss America Awards
     
 2013    
 2012    
 2011    Courtney Porter  Top 13 Semi-finalist
 2010 Ashley Davis  PSA
 2009 Liz Cochran  QL Finalist
 2008 Amanda Tapley  Top 15; QL 2nd Rup; CMN Top 3
 2007 Jamie Langley  QL Finalist; CMN 2nd Place
 2006 Melinda Toole  4th Runner-Up; QL 2nd Rup; Miss Congeniality
 2005 Alexa Jones  2nd Runner-Up; QL 2nd Rup
 2004 Shannon Camper  N/A
 2004 Deidre Downs  Miss America; QL Award Winner
 2003 Catherine Crosby  Top 15; QL Award Winner
 2002 Scarlotte Deupree  1st Runner-Up; QL 1st Rup
 2001 Kelly Jones  
 2000 Jana Sanderson  Top Ten
 1999 Julie Smith  Top Ten; QL 2nd Rup
 1998 Ashley Halfman  
 1997 Beth Stomps  
 1996 Alison McCreary  3rd Runner-Up; QL Award Winner
 1995 Leigh Sherer  Top Ten; QL Finalist
 1994 Amie Beth Dickinson  N/A
 1994 Heather Whitestone  Miss America ; PTA; PSA; QL 1st Rup
 1993 Kalyn Chapman  Top Ten
 1992 Kim Wimmer  QL Award Winner
 1991 Wendy Neuendorf  
 1990 Resha Riggins  Non-Finalist Interview Award; QL Finalist
 1989 Julie Coons  
 1988 Jenny Jackson  4th Runner-Up
 1987 Kym Williams  
 1986 Angela Callahan  Top Ten
 1985 Angela Tower   4th Runner-Up; PSA 
 1984 Tammy Little  Non-finalist Talent Award
 1983 Pam Battles  2nd Runner-Up
 1982 Yolanda Fernandez  3rd Runner-Up
 1981 Phoebe Stone  
 1980 Paige Phillips  1st Runner-Up; PTA
 1979 Kathy Pickett  Non-Finalist Talent Award
 1978 Theresa Cheatham  1st Runner-Up; PTA; PSA
 1977 Julie Houston  
 1976 Denise Davis  
 1975 Susie Vaughn  
 1974 Pam Long  
 1973 Jane Rice  
 1972 Freita Fuller  
 1971 Ceil Jenkins  
 1970 Suzanne Dennie  PTA
 1969 Ann Fowler  
 1968 Dellynne Catching  Top Ten; PSA
 1967 Becky Alford  
 1966 Angi Grooms  Top Ten
 1965 Linda Folsom  Top Ten; PTA
 1964 Vickie Powers  Top Ten; PTA
 1963 Judy Short  Top Ten; PTA; PSA
 1962 Patricia Bonner  
 1961 Delores Hodgens  Top Ten
 1960 Teresa Rinaldi  Top Ten; PTA
 1959 Betty Lindstrom  
 1958 Lee Thornberry  Top Ten; PTA
 1957 Anna Stange  
 1956 Ann Stuart Ariail  2nd Runner-Up; PTA
 1955 Patricia Huddleston  Top Ten; PTA
 1954 Marilyn Tate  Top Ten
 1953 Virginia McDavid  3rd Runner-Up
 1952 Gwen Harmon  3rd Runner-Up; PSA
 1951 Jeanne Moody  Top 15; PTA
 1950 Yolande Betbeze  Miss America; PSA
 1949 Frieda Roser  
 1948 Marjorie Orr  
 1948 Martha Ann Ingram  2nd Runner-Up
 1947 Peggy Elder  3rd Runner-Up; PSA
 1946 Dale Nunnally  PTA
 1946 Sue Donegan  
 1945 Frances Dorn  2nd Runner-Up; PTA
 1944 Betty Jane Rase  4th Runner-Up; PTA; PSA
 1943 Toula Hogestratou  Miss Congeniality
 1942 Marie Duncan  Top Ten; PSA
 1941 Virginia McGraw  Top 15; PTA
 1940 Evelyn Motlow  
 1940 Carolyn Foreman (Miss Montgomery)  
 1939 Florine Holt  Top 15
 1939 Louise Robertson (Miss Montgomery)  
 1938 Mildred Oxford  Top 15
 1938 Patricia McDaniel (Miss Montgomery)  
 1937 Josephine Beall  
 1937 Ingram Starkey (Miss Montgomery)  Top Ten
 1936 Gloria Levinge  4th Runner-Up; PTA
 1936 Tommy Marie Peck  Top 15
 1935 Adelynn Owen  
 1926 Vivian McDowell (Miss Mobile)  
 1925 Nellie Kincaid  
 1924 Mildred Adams  
 1923 Louise Newman  
 1922 Elise Sparrow  
 1921 Lois Wilson  
     
     
     
     

 

 

 

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