Miss Alabama
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- For the state pageant affiliated with Miss USA, see Miss Alabama USA
The Miss Alabama competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Alabama in the Miss America pageant.
Miss Alabama's have performed strongly at the Miss America pageant, particularly in the early twenty-first century, when the state produced only their third Miss America, a first runner-up, third runner-up and two semi-finalists.
Alabama has won three Miss America titles: Deidre Downs in 2005, Heather Whitestone in 1994 and Yolande Betbeze in 1951. Betbeze is well known as the Miss America who refused to pose in a swimsuit, causing swimsuit sponsors Catalina to pull out and start the Miss USA pageant. Another notable Miss Alabama is Heather Whitestone, the first deaf woman to win the Miss America crown.
[edit] Local Pageants
As with many other Miss America state pageants, delegates first must qualify by winning a local pageant. Local titles that have produced more than one Miss Alabama are:
- Miss Homewood Area - Catherine Crosby (2003), Kelly Jones (2001)
- Miss Samford University - Melinda Toole (2006), Jana Sanderson (2000), Alison McCreary (1996), Amie Beth Dickinson* (1994)
- Miss Cullman Area - Ashley Halfman (1998), Heather Whitestone (1994)
[edit] Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Local Title | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Melinda Toole | Birmingham | Miss Samford University | |||
| 2005 | Alexa Jones | Andalusia | Miss Mobile | 3rd runner-up | 2nd runner-up Quality of Life award | |
| 2004 | Shannon Camper* | Gadsden | Miss West Central Alabama | |||
| Deidre Downs | Birmingham | Miss Leeds Area | Winner | Quality of Life award | ||
| 2003 | Catherine Crosby | Brewton | Miss Homewood Area | Semi-finalist | Quality of Life award; Active International For Business & Marketing | |
| 2002 | Scarlotte Deupree | Birmingham | Miss Camellia | 1st runner-up | 1st runner-up Quality of Life award | |
| 2001 | Kelly Jones | Birmingham | Miss Homewood Area | |||
| 2000 | Jana Sanderson | Birmingham | Miss Samford University | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1999 | Julie Smith (Miss Alabama) | Birmingham | Miss Chattahoochee Valley | |||
| 1998 | Ashley Halfman | Birmingham | Miss Cullman Area | |||
| 1997 | Beth Stomps | Mobile | Miss Alabama Music Hall of Fame | |||
| 1996 | Alison McCreary | Florence | Miss Samford University | 3rd runner-up | Quality of Life award | |
| 1995 | Leigh Sherer | Jasper | Semi-finalist | |||
| 1994 | Amie Beth Dickinson* | Miss Samford University | ||||
| Heather Whitestone | Dothan | Miss Point Mallard | Winner | Preliminary swimsuit; Preliminary Talent | First deaf Miss Alabama | |
| 1993 | Kalyn Chapman | Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1992 | Kim Wimmer | Miss Leeds Area | ||||
| 1991 | Wendy Neuendorf | Decatur | Former Miss Georgia Teen USA 1986 | |||
| 1990 | Resga Riggins | Trussville | ||||
| 1989 | Julie Coons | |||||
| 1988 | Jenny Lee Jackson | 4th runner-up | ||||
| 1987 | Kym Williams | |||||
| 1986 | Angela Callahan | 4th runner-up | Semi-finalist | |||
| 1985 | Angela Tower | Miss Jefferson County | 4th runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit; Preliminary Talent | ||
| 1984 | Tammy Little | |||||
| 1983 | Pam Battles | 2nd runner-up | ||||
| 1982 | Yolanda Fernandez | 3rd runner-up | ||||
| 1981 | Phoebe Stone | |||||
| 1980 | Paige Phillips | Miss Leeds Area | 1st runner-up | Preliminary Talent | ||
| 1979 | Kathy Pickett | |||||
| 1978 | Teresa Cheatham | 1st runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit; Preliminary Talent | |||
| 1977 | Julie Houston | |||||
| 1976 | Denise Davis | |||||
| 1975 | Susie Vaughn | |||||
| 1974 | Pam Long | Screenwriter of soap opera Guiding Light | ||||
| 1973 | Jane Rice | |||||
| 1972 | Freita Fuller | |||||
| 1971 | Ceil Jenkins | |||||
| 1970 | Suzanne Dennie | Preliminary Talent | ||||
| 1969 | Ann Fowler | |||||
| 1968 | Dellynne Catching | Semi-finalist | Preliminary Swimsuit | |||
| 1967 | Becky Alford | |||||
| 1966 | Angeline Grooms | Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1965 | Linda Folsom | Semi-finalist | Preliminary Talent | |||
| 1964 | Vicki Powers | Semi-finalist | Preliminary Talent | |||
| 1963 | Judith Short | Semifinalist | Preliminary Swimsuit; Preliminary Talent | |||
| 1962 | Patricia Bonner | |||||
| 1961 | Delores Hodgens | Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1960 | Teresa Rinaldi | Semi-finalist | Preliminary Talent | |||
| 1959 | Betty Lindtstrom | |||||
| 1958 | Lee Thornberry | Semi-finalist | Preliminary Talent | |||
| 1957 | Anna Stange | |||||
| 1956 | Anne Stuart Ariall | 2nd runner-up | Preliminary Talent | |||
| 1955 | Patricia Byrd Huddleston | Semi-finalist | Preliminary Talent | |||
| 1954 | Marilyn Tate | Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1953 | Virginia McDavid | 3rd runner-up | ||||
| 1952 | Gwen Harmon | 3rd runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit | |||
| 1951 | Jeanne Moody | Preliminary Talent | ||||
| 1950 | Yolande Betbeze | Mobile | Winner | Preliminary Swimsuit | Betbeze's refusal to pose in a swimsuit lead to the pull-out of swimsuit sponsors Catalina and the creation of the Miss USA pageant | |
| 1949 | Freida Roser | |||||
| 1948 | Martha Ann Ingram | 2nd runner-up | ||||
| 1947 | Peggy Jane Elder | 3rd runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit | |||
| 1946 | Emma Dale Nunnally | Preliminary Talent | ||||
| 1945 | Frances Dorn | 2nd runner-up | Preliminary Talent | |||
| 1944 | Betty Jane Rase | 4th runner-up | ||||
| 1943 | Toula Hagestratou | |||||
| 1942 | Marie Duncan | Semi-finalist | Preliminary Swimsuit | |||
| 1941 | Virginia MacGraw | Semi-finalist | Preliminary Swimsuit | |||
| 1940 | Evelyn Motlow | |||||
| 1939 | Florine Holt | |||||
| 1938 | Patricia McDaniel | |||||
| 1937 | Ingram Starkey | |||||
| 1936 | Tommy Marie Peck |
* Succeeded to the crown after Miss Alabama won Miss America
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