Miss Texas
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- This article is about the state pageant to select a Texas delegate to the Miss America pageant. For the Miss USA state pageant, see Miss Texas USA
The Miss Texas competition was founded in 1936 as a scholarship contest for young women. The winner represents Texas in the Miss America pageant; three winners have gone on to be crowned Miss America (but none since 1975).
Almost all contestants have either received or are in the process of earning college or postgraduate degrees and utilize Miss Texas scholarship awards for furthering their education. Hundreds of young women participate each year in the local pageants, culminating in the selection of local finalists who vie for the Miss Texas title in Fort Worth each July.
To become Miss Texas, a contestant must first win a local competition, a process requiring personal commitment, hard work and talent. A young woman may compete at the local and state level more than once, but may only compete in the national Miss America competition one time. Hundreds of women participate each year in the local pageants, culminating in the selection of local finalists who compete for the Miss Texas title in Fort Worth in July.
Once chosen, Miss Texas and the local winners become representatives of their generation, using their stature to address community service matters and other contemporary issues, which are of particular relevance to young Texans and women.
[edit] Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Local Title | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Shilah Phillips | Plano | Miss Frisco | 1st runner up at Miss America 2007 | Preliminary Talent Award | first African-American to win Miss Texas |
| 2005 | Morgan Matlock | Lamesa | Miss Fort Worth | Top 10 Semi-finalist | ||
| 2004 | Jamie Story | Bedford | Miss Arlington | Top 10 Semi-finalist | ||
| 2003 | Sunni Cranfill | Hooks | Miss Amarillo Area | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 2002 | Lisa (Dalzell) Spooner | Magnolia | Miss Lake O' The Pines | Top 10 Semi-finalist | Preliminary Interview Award | |
| 2001 | Stacy James | Texarkana | Miss Lake O' The Pines | Top 20 Quarter-finalist | ||
| 2000 | Tara Watson | Lufkin | Miss Hurst-Euless-Bedford | Top 10 Semi-finalist | ||
| 1999 | Yanci (Yarborough) McGregor | Childress | Miss Hurst-Euless-Bedford | 4th runner-up | ||
| 1998 | Tatum Hubbard | Odessa | Miss Arlington | |||
| 1997 | Reagan (Hughes) Harper | Midland | Miss Lake O' The Pines | |||
| 1996 | Michelle (Martinez) Metzger | Dallas | Miss Dallas | Top 10 Semi-finalist | ||
| 1995 | Carly (Jarmon) Gil | Mesquite | Miss Oak Cliff | |||
| 1994 | Arian Archer | Borger | Miss Amarillo Area | Top 10 Semi-finalist | ||
| 1993 | BaShara Chandler | Garland | Miss Northeast Texas | Non-finalist Interview Award | ||
| 1992 | Amy Parker | Carrollton | Miss Tarrant County | |||
| 1991 | Rhonda (Morrison) Formby | Coldspring | Miss Lake O' The Pines | Top 10 Semi-finalist | ||
| 1990 | Suzanne (Lawrence) Forsberg | Humble | Miss Humble/Kingwood | 3rd runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award, Quality of Life Award | |
| 1989 | Leah Kay Lyle | Plainview | Miss Haltom-Richland Area | Top 10 Semi-finalist | ||
| 1988 | Cathy Castro | McAllen | Miss Duncanville | |||
| 1987 | Jo Thompson | Lufkin | Miss Greenville | Top 10 Semi-finalist | ||
| 1986 | Stephany Samone | Dallas | Miss Grand Prairie | Top 10 Semi-finalist | Preliminary Talent Award | |
| 1985 | Jonna Fitzgerald | Greenville | Miss Greenville | 2nd runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | |
| 1984 | Tamara Hext | Fort Worth | Miss Arlington | 4th runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |
| 1983 | Dana Rogers | Boerne | Miss San Antonio | Top 10 Semi-finalist | Featured performer at the 1985 Miss America Pageant | |
| 1982 | Gloria Gilbert | Millsap | Miss Palo Pinto County | Non-finalist Talent Award | Previously winner of the 1981 National Sweetheart Pageant, longtime hostess of the Miss Texas Television broadcast | |
| 1981 | Sheri Ryman | Texas City | Miss Texas A&M | 4th runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | |
| 1980 | Terri Eoff | Lubbock | Miss Lubbock | Top 10 Semi-finalist | actress, appeared on soap opera Search for Tomorrow | |
| 1979 | Lex Ann Haughey | Hurst | Miss Haltom-Richland Area | |||
| 1978 | Sandi (Miller) Gray-Zeller | Mesquite | Miss Red Bird Area | Top 10 Semi-finalist | ||
| 1977 | Lori Smith | Fort Worth | Miss Haltom-Richland Area | Top 10 Semi-finalist | ||
| 1976 | Carmen McCollum | Odessa | Miss West Texas | 2nd runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award, Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |
| 1975 | Mary Ellen Richardson | Waco | Miss Waco | Top 10 Semi-finalist | ||
| 1974 | Phyllis Barger | Miss Houston | Successor to crown | |||
| Shirley Cothran | Fort Worth | Miss Haltom-Richland Area | Winner | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | ||
| 1973 | Judy Mallett | Haltom City | Miss Haltom-Richland Area | Top 10 Semi-finalist | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | |
| 1972 | Mae Beth Cormany | Wichita Falls | Miss Hurst-Euless-Bedford | 3rd runner-up | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | |
| 1971 | Janice (Bain) Cord | San Antonio | Miss White Settlement | |||
| 1970 | Phyllis George | Denton | Miss Dallas | Winner | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |
| 1969 | Dana Dowell | White Oak | Miss Longview | |||
| 1968 | Diane Hugghins | Tyler | Miss Nacogdoches | |||
| Glenda Propes | Miss Rusk County | |||||
| 1967 | Molly Grubb | Fort Worth | Miss Fort Worth | Featured dancer in the 1968 Miss America Pageant | ||
| 1966 | Susan Logan | San Angelo | Miss Lubbock | Top 10 Semi-finalist | ||
| 1965 | Mary Lou Butler | Irving | Miss Nacogdoches | |||
| 1964 | Sharon McCauley | Athens | Miss Athens | 2nd runner-up | ||
| Lenda Varley | Miss Fort Worth | |||||
| 1963 | Jeanne Amacker | Beaumont | Miss Austin | |||
| 1962 | Penny Lee Rudd | Waskom | Miss Marshall | 2nd runner-up | ||
| 1961 | Linda Loftis | Fort Worth | Miss Fort Worth | 3rd runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | Featured performer in the 1962 Miss America Pageant |
| 1960 | Mary Cage Moore | Laredo | Miss Dallas | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1959 | Marilyn Turner | Fort Worth | Miss Fort Worth | Non-finalist Talent Award | was chosen from among the non-finalist talent winners to perform her talent on the television broadcast | |
| 1958 | Mary Nell Hendricks | Arlington | Miss Arlington | Top 10 Semi-finalist | ||
| 1957 | Carolyn Calvert | Austin | Miss Austin | |||
| 1956 | Barbara Murry | Houston | Miss Houston | |||
| 1955 | June (Prichard) Williams | Seymour | Miss West Texas | |||
| 1954 | Yvonne Erwin | Dallas | Miss Dallas | |||
| 1953 | Paula Lane | Cleburne | Miss Cleburne | |||
| 1952 | Connie Hopping | Littlefield | Miss Littlefield | |||
| 1951 | Glenda Holcomb | Odessa | Miss West Texas | |||
| 1950 | Margaret Sommers | Dallas | Miss Dallas | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1949 | Ysleta Leissner | Fort Worth | Miss Fort Worth | |||
| 1948 | Bonnie Jean Bland | Orange | Miss Orange | |||
| 1947 | Luna McClain | Lufkin | Miss Lufkin | |||
| 1946 | D. Anne Wisener | University Park | Miss University Park | |||
| 1945 | Polly Below | Galveston | Miss Galveston | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1944 | Joyce Courrege | Orange | Miss Orange | |||
| 1942 | Jo-Carroll Dennison | Tyler | Miss Tyler | Winner | Preliminary Talent Award, Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |
| 1940/41 | Gloria Ann Byrns Evans | Port Arthur | Miss Port Arthur | |||
| 1939 | Charmayne Smith | Dallas | Miss Dallas | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1937 | Alice Emerick | Fort Worth | Miss Fort Worth | 1st runner-up | ||
| 1936 | Patricia Allen Green | Corpus Christi | Miss Corpus Christi | *Competed at Miss America as Miss Corpus Christi |
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