Miss Arkansas
For the state pageant affiliated with Miss USA, see Miss Arkansas USA.
Amber Bennett, Miss Arkansas 2006
Eudora Mosby, Miss Arkansas 2005
The Miss Arkansas competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Arkansas in the Miss America pageant. Arkansas has won the Miss America title three times (1964, 1982, 2017).
Results summary
The year in brackets indicates the year of the Miss America competition the award/placement was garnered.
Placements
- Miss Americas: Donna Axum (1964), Elizabeth Ward (1982), Savvy Shields (2017)
- 1st runners-up: Rebecca McCall (1946), Frances Anderson (1962), Karen Carlson (1965), Alyse Eady (2011)
- 2nd runners-up: Paula Montgomery (1996), Ashton Campbell (2015)
- 3rd runners-up: Mary Jennings (1951), Charlotte Simmen (1952), Lacy Fleming (2005)
- 4th runners-up: Lencola Sullivan (1981)
- Finalists: Eudora Mosby (2006)
- Semi-finalists: Dorris Love (1943), Barbara Brothers (1949), Barbara Banks (1957), Sally Miller (1959), Donna Connelly (1971), Mary Stuart (1983), Julie Russell (1987), Nicole Bethmann (1994), Erin Wheatley (1999), Brandy Rhodes (2000), Jessie Ward (2001), Katie Bailey (2008), Ashlen Batson (2009), Sarah Slocum (2010), Amy Crain (2014), Loren McDaniel (2016)
Awards
Preliminary Awards
- Preliminary Swimsuit: Rebecca McCall (1946), Mary Jennings (1951), Charlotte Simmen (1952), Frances Anderson (1962), Donna Axum (1964), Sharon Evans (1968), Paula Roach (1976), Bunnie Holbert (1978), Lencola Sullivan (1981), Elizabeth Ward (1982), Lauren Davidson (2003)
- Preliminary Talent: Barbara Banks (1956), Savvy Shields (2017)
Non-finalist Awards
- Non-finalist Talent: Marilyn Morgan (1972), Joyce McCormack (1977), Bunnie Holbert (1978), Regina Hopper (1984), Lisa Stevens (1985), Patti Thorn (1989), Beth Anne Rankin (1995)
- Non-finalist Interview: Whitney Kirk (2004)
Other
- Miss Congeniality: Sharon Evans (1968), Rhonda Pope (1975), Sloane Roberts (2013)
- Dr. David B. Allman Medical Scholarship: Christi Taunton (1986)
- Quality of Life Finalist: Kristen Glover (2012)
Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age | Local Title | Miss America Talent | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Savannah Jere Skidmore | Calico Rock | 21 | Miss University of Arkansas | N/A | N/A | Skidmore finished as 1st runner-up to Shields at Miss Arkansas 2016. She assumed the title after Savvy Shields became Miss America 2017.[1][2] | |
| Savvy Shields | Fayetteville | 21 | Miss Heart of the Ozarks | Jazz Dance "They Just Keep Moving the Line" | Winner | Preliminary Talent award | Miss Arkansas's Outstanding Teen 2009 | |
| 2015 | Loren McDaniel | Van Buren | 22 | Miss Northwest Arkansas | Vocal "Bring Him Home" from Les Misérables" | Top 15 | ||
| 2014 | Ashton Campbell | Hindsville | 20 | Miss Ouachita River | Vocal "Via Dolorosa" | 2nd runner-up | Miss Arkansas's Outstanding Teen 2011 | |
| 2013 | Amy Crain | Hot Springs | 23 | Miss Diamond Lakes | Contemporary Clogging "Game Time" | Top 15 | 4th runner-up at National Sweetheart 2010 | |
| 2012 | Sloane Roberts | Rison | 19 | Miss Heart of the Ozarks | Acapella Tap Dance | Miss Congeniality | Miss Arkansas' Outstanding Teen 2008 and 2nd runner-up at Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2008 | |
| 2011 | Kristen Glover | Stuttgart | 22 | Miss Ouachita Baptist University | Tap Dance "Piano Sonata No. 11" | Quality of Life Finalist | ||
| 2010 | Alyse Eady | Fort Smith | 22 | Miss South Central Arkansas | Ventriloquism / Vocal "I Want to be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" | 1st runner-up | Miss Teen Arkansas America 2004 (now known as Miss Arkansas' Outstanding Teen) | |
| 2009 | Sarah Slocum | Sheridan | 23 | Miss Ouachita River | Vocal "The Prayer" | Top 15 | Was voted into the Top 15 as a "People's Choice" winner, voted on by the public | |
| 2008 | Ashlen Batson | Newark | 21 | Miss Spirit of Arkansas | Flute Solo "Carmen Medley" | Top 12 | ||
| 2007 | Katie Bailey | Conway | 25 | Miss South Arkansas | Vocal "Feeling Good" | Top 16 | ||
| 2006 | Amber Bennett | Carlisle | 23 | Miss Central Arkansas | Vocal "Come Rain or Come Shine" | Miss America "Pageant School" competition | ||
| 2005 | Eudora Mosby | Hazen | 23 | Miss Central Arkansas | Vocal "Dream In Color" | Top 10 | ||
| 2004 | Lacy Fleming | Hampton | 22 | Miss Ouachita Baptist University | Vocal "Last Dance" | 3rd runner-up | Arkansas Junior Miss 2000 | |
| 2003 | Whitney Kirk | Cabot | 22 | Miss Three Rivers | Vocal / Dance "All That Jazz" | Non-finalist Interview Award | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2000 | |
| 2002 | Lauren Davidson | El Dorado | 20 | Miss White River | Vocal "It's Time" | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | ||
| 2001 | Jessie Ward | Prescott | 21 | Miss Texarkana | Tap Dance "Michael Jackson Medley" | Top 10 | Current Executive Director of the Miss Arkansas pageant under her married name, Jessie Bennett[3] | |
| 2000 | Sara Harris | Forrest City | 20 | Miss Delta | Vocal "Unchained Melody" | |||
| 1999 | Brandy Rhodes | Hot Springs | 22 | Miss Lake Dardanelle | Original Tap Dance "American Rhapsody" | Top 10 | ||
| 1998 | Erin Wheatley | Little Rock | 22 | Miss White River | Vocal / Tap Dance "I Got Rhythm" | Top 10 | ||
| 1997 | Stacy Freeman | Sheridan | 22 | Miss White River | Tap Dance "Sing, Sing, Sing" | Miss Arkansas Teen USA 1992 | ||
| 1996 | Melonie McGarrah | Rogers | 22 | Miss White River | Vocal "I Will Always Love You" | |||
| 1995 | Paula Montgomery | Cabot | 22 | Miss Greater Little Rock | Vocal "Can't Help Loving That Man" | 2nd runner-up | Miss Arkansas Teen USA 1991 | |
| 1994 | Beth Anne Rankin | Magnolia | 23 | Miss Diamond Lakes | Piano | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1993 | Nicole Bethmann | Rogers | 24 | Miss Diamond Lakes | Vocal "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" | Top 10 | ||
| 1992 | Shannon Boy | Alma | 21 | Miss Diamond Lakes | Flute Solo "Theme from Star Wars" | |||
| 1991 | Heather Hunnicutt | Fayetteville | 22 | Miss Northwest Arkansas | Vocal "Born To Be Blue" | |||
| 1990 | Karissa Rushing | Benton | 24 | Miss White River | Vocal "With a Song In My Heart" | |||
| 1989 | Marci Lewallen | Dardanelle | 22 | Miss Arkansas Valley | Vocal / Banjo "Boogie Woogie Banjo Blues" | |||
| 1988 | Patti Thorn | Hot Springs | 23 | Miss Diamond Lakes | Vocal "Love Is Where You Find It" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1987 | Carole Lawson | Paragould | 21 | Miss University of Arkansas | Flute / Pic "Carmen Medley" | National Sweetheart 1986 | ||
| 1986 | Julie Russell | Fort Smith | 22 | Miss Lake Dardanelle | Classical Piano Medley with Vocal Narration | Top 10 | ||
| 1985 | Christi Taunton | Camden | 20 | Miss Camden | Popular Vocal "Remembering" | Dr. David B. Allman Medical Scholarship | ||
| 1984 | Lisa Stevens | Arkadelphia | 22 | Miss Ouachita Baptist University | Flute Solo "Sabre Dance" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1983 | Regina Hopper | Springdale | 24 | Miss Northwest Arkansas | Popular Vocal "You're Gonna Hear From Me" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Elected to the Miss America Board of Directors | |
| 1982 | Mary Stuart | Little Rock | 20 | Miss White River | Vocal / Broadway Jazz Dance "The Birth of the Blues" | Top 10 | Actress who played "Frannie Hughes" on As the World Turns from 1990–1993 | |
| 1981 | Micki Petrus | Miss University of Central Arkansas | Petrus finished as second runner-up to Ward but accepted the title after Mary Stuart, the first runner-up in 1981 turned it down to compete again. | |||||
| Grace Elizabeth Ward | Russellville | 20 | Miss White River | Vocal "After You've Gone" | Winner | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | National Sweetheart 1980, Now known as actress Elizabeth Gracen | |
| 1980 | Lencola Sullivan | Morrilton | 22 | Miss White River | Blues Vocal "St. Louis Blues" | 4th runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | *First African-American contestant to place as a runner-up at Miss America, Toured with Miss America USO Troupe |
| 1979 | Janet Holman | North Little Rock | 22 | Miss University of Arkansas | Vocal "Somewhere" | |||
| 1978 | Naylene Vuurens | Searcy | 20 | Miss Diamond Lakes | Piano Solo "Etude in G Minor" | |||
| 1977 | Bunnie Holbert | Stuttgart | 20 | Miss White River | Vocal "Feelings" | Preliminary Swimsuit Award, Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1976 | Joyce McCormack | Little Rock | 21 | Miss White River | Ballet en Pointe "Polonaise" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | |
| 1975 | Paula Roach | Jonesboro | 20 | Miss Jonesboro | Piano "Theme from Summer of '42" | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | ||
| 1974 | Rhonda Pope | Hot Springs | 21 | Miss Hot Springs | Vocal Medley "Friends" & "With a Little Help from My Friends" | Miss Congeniality (tie) | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | |
| 1973 | Becky Hume | Jonesboro | 23 | Miss Osceola | Free Floor Exercise & Balance Beam Routine | |||
| 1972 | Debbye Hazelwood | Magnolia | 20 | Miss Southern State College | Piano "Warsaw Concerto" | |||
| 1971 | Marilyn Morgan | Clarksville | 20 | Miss Clarksville | Popular Vocal "Something" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Featured singer at Miss America 1972 | |
| 1970 | Donna Connelly | Hope | 19 | Miss State College of Arkansas | Vocal Medley "Who Will Buy" from Oliver!" & "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing" | Top 10 | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | |
| 1969 | Marilyn Allen | North Little Rock | 20 | Miss North Little Rock | Acrobatic Ballet "Theme from Exodus" | |||
| 1968 | Helen Gennings | Batesville | 20 | Miss Ouachita Baptist University | Popular Vocal "What the World Needs Now" & "Love Makes the World Go Round" | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | ||
| 1967 | Sharon Evans | North Little Rock | 20 | Miss Ouachita Baptist University | Vocal / Dance "Mame" | Preliminary Swimsuit Award, Miss Congeniality (tie) | ||
| 1966 | Mary Craig | Batesville | 18 | Miss Batesville | Vocal / Dancing | |||
| 1965 | Nita VanHook | |||||||
| Rhonda Oglesby | Pine Bluff | 19 | Miss University of Arkansas | Popular Singing | Resigned after briefly holding the title[4] for three months;[5] listed as Miss Arkansas in the Miss America program from 1965 | |||
| 1964 | Karen Carlson | Fayetteville | 20 | Miss University of Arkansas | Vocal "As Long As He Needs Me" | 1st runner-up | Actress, Ex-wife of David Soul, Contestant at Maid of Cotton 1964 | |
| 1963 | Pam Jackson | North Little Rock | Miss North Little Rock | |||||
| Donna Axum | El Dorado | 21 | Miss El Dorado | Vocal Medley "Quando me'n vo'" & "I Love Paris" | Winner | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Currently serving on the Miss America Board of Directors, Contestant at Miss Dixie 1960 as Miss Hospitality of Arkansas | |
| 1962 | Edye Addington | Texarkana | 19 | Miss Arkansas State Teachers' College | Vocal Medley "When I Fall In Love" & "This Can't Be Love" | |||
| 1961 | Frances Anderson | Pine Bluff | 19 | Miss Pine Bluff | Vocal "I Enjoy Being a Girl" | 1st runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Featured Performer at Miss America 1962 |
| 1960 | Claudette Smith | Star City | 18 | Miss Pine Bluff | Vocal | |||
| 1959 | Suzanne Jackson | North Little Rock | 19 | Miss University of Arkansas | Vocal Medley from "The King and I" | |||
| 1958 | Sally Miller | Pine Bluff | Miss Pine Bluff | Classical Vocal "Caro Nome" from Rigoletto | Top 10 | Contestant at Miss Dixie 1959 | ||
| 1957 | Suzanne Scudder | Hot Springs | Miss University of Arkansas | Vocal | ||||
| 1956 | Barbara Banks | Little Rock | Interpretive Ballet "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" | Preliminary Talent Award | ||||
| 1955 | Charlene Bowers | Helena | Vocal "I Want To Be Evil" | |||||
| 1954 | Sarah Martin | Little Rock | Classical Vocal | |||||
| 1953 | Helen Reed | Fayetteville | Tap Dance | |||||
| 1952 | Bonnie Nicksic | Hot Springs | Vocal / Dance "Life Upon the Wicked Stage" from Show Boat | |||||
| 1951 | Charlotte Simmen | Little Rock | Vocal & Art Exhibition | 3rd runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |||
| 1950 | Mary Jennings | Hot Springs | Classical Vocal "Un Bel Di" from Madame Butterfly | 3rd runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Was a featured soprano with the New York City Opera, Judged the Miss America 1989 and 1991 | ||
| 1949 | Barbara Brothers | Little Rock | Painting Display & Poetry Recitation "Old Black Joe" & "I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy" | Top 15 | ||||
| 1948 | Van Louis McDaniel | Forrest City | Monologue "Spartan Parents" | |||||
| 1947 | Pam Camp | Little Rock | Sketching | |||||
| 1946 | Rebecca McCall | Blytheville | Vocal "Put the Blame on Mame" | 1st runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |||
| 1945 | Leslie Hampton | Lake Village | Vocal "My Man" | |||||
| 1944 | Mineola Graham | Brinkley | ||||||
| 1943 | Dorris Love | Jonesboro | Dramatic Reading "Letter to a Soldier" | Top 10 | ||||
| 1941 | Ferol Amelia Dumas | Magnolia | ||||||
| 1940 | Betty Benson | Forrest City | ||||||
| 1939 | Jean Thompson | Helena | ||||||
| 1938 | Lorene Bailey | Jonesboro | Piano "Dinah" | |||||
| 1933 | Vivian Ferguson | 20 | Disqualified - married | |||||
| 1932 | Nina Ruth Hudson | Harrison | 14 | No Miss America pageant held in 1932 | 3rd runner-up, Miss Rural America 1932 | |||
| 1925 | No Miss Arkansas | Virginia Bowers competed as Miss Little Rock. |
References
- ↑ "New Miss Arkansas named after Shields wins Miss America". Arkansas Online. 12 September 2016.
- ↑ "Calico Rock graduate reigning Miss Arkansas".
- ↑ "Contact". Retrieved May 2, 2011.
- ↑ Ware, Hames (July 13, 2009). "Rhonda Lee Oglesby Coullet (1945–)". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved July 23, 2010.
- ↑ "RTheater : Playhouse offers "Runaway" hit". The Martha's Vineyard Times.
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