Miss Texas
Winners

Miss Texas

Section Title: Winners
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Year	Name	Hometown	Local Title	Age	Miss America Talent	Placement at Miss America	Special scholarships at Miss America	Notes

2018	Madison Fuller	Fairfield	Miss Dallas	23	Ventriloquism, "I've Been Everywhere"	Non-finalist Talent Award	Previously Miss Texas' Outstanding Teen 2010

2017	Margana Wood	Houston	Miss Travis County	22	Contemporary Dance, "When We Were Young" by Adele	4th runner-up	Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award	Previously Miss Texas' Outstanding Teen 2012 Top 8 at Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2013 pageant

2016	Caroline Carothers	San Antonio	Miss Plano	20	Baton Twirling, "Hot Honey Rag" from Chicago (musical)	Top 7

2015	Shannon Sanderford	Coppell	Miss Fort Worth	23	Vocal, "Son of a Preacher Man"	Top 10

2014	Monique Evans	Austin	Miss Park Cities	22	Ballet en Pointe "Requiem for a Tower"	Top 16

2013	Ivana Hall	Cedar Hill	Miss North Texas	23	Vocal "Fever"	Top 10	Later Miss Oklahoma World 2015 Top 22 at Miss World America 2015 pageant

2012	DaNae Couch	Coppell	Miss Dallas	23	Twirling "Last Dance"	Top 10

2011	Kendall Morris	Ennis	Miss Frisco	20	Piano, "New World Symphony"	Top 10	Louanne Gamba Instrumental Award Preliminary Swimsuit Award	Previously Miss Texas' Outstanding Teen 2006

2010	Ashley Melnick	Dallas	Miss Fort Worth	21	Vocal "I Surrender"	Top 12

2009	Kristen Blair	Southlake	Miss North Texas	22	Classical Vocal "Chi il bel sogno di doretta" from "La rondine"	Top 10

2008	Rebecca Robinson	Buffalo	Miss Longview	24	Tap Dance "Hey Pachuco"	Miss Congeniality	Previously Miss Texas' Outstanding Teen 2000

2007	Molly Hazlett	Centerville	Miss Longview	21	Character Jazz en Pointe "Rich Man's Frug" from Sweet Charity	Top 8	Preliminary Swimsuit Award

2006	Shilah Phillips	Plano	Miss Frisco	25	Vocal "I Believe in You and Me"	1st runner-up	Preliminary Talent Award	First African American to win Miss Texas title

2005	Morgan Matlock	Lamesa	Miss Fort Worth	24	Vocal Medley "Come Rain or Come Shine" & "What Kind of Fool Am I?"	Top 10

2004	Jamie Story	Bedford	Miss Arlington	23	Classical Piano "Mendelssohn's Concerto No. 1 in G Minor"	Top 10

2003	Sunni Cranfill	Hooks	Miss Amarillo Area	23	Ballet en Pointe "Carmen Fantasy"	Non-finalist Talent Award	Later Dallas Cowboys cheerleader in 2009

2002	Mary Lisa Dalzell	Magnolia	Miss Lake O' The Pines	23	Flute Medley "Shenandoah" & "Dueling Banjos"	Top 10	Preliminary Interview Award	Evening Anchor at NBC affiliate in Fort Myers, Florida

2001	Stacy James	Texarkana	Miss Lake O' The Pines	22	Vocal "Man of La Mancha"	Top 20

2000	Tara Watson	Lufkin	Miss Hurst-Euless-Bedford	22	Vocal "I've Got a Crush on You"	Top 10	Previously Miss Texas' Outstanding Teen 1993

1999	Yanci Yarbrough	Childress	Miss Hurst-Euless-Bedford	24	Vocal Medley "Come In From the Rain" & "Stormy Weather"	4th runner-up	Vocalist working with Fellowship Church

1998	Tatum Hubbard	Odessa	Miss Arlington	24	Jazz Dance "Hit Me With a Hot Note And Watch Me Bounce" from Sophisticated Ladies	Main anchor at CBS affiliate in Midland-Odessa (KOSA-TV)

1997	Reagan Hughes	Midland	Miss Lake O' The Pines	23	Dramatic Vocal "I Dreamed a Dream"

1996	Michelle Martinez	Dallas	Miss Dallas	23	Classical Piano "Chopin's Ballade in G Minor"	Top 10

1995	Carly Jarmon	Mesquite	Miss Oak Cliff	19	Vocal "Stand by Your Man"	Previously Miss Texas' Outstanding Teen 1992 Married to 2002 World Series champion, Benji Gil

1994	Arian Archer	Borger	Miss Amarillo Area	20	Vocal "Almost Over You"	Top 10

1993	BaShara Chandler	Garland	Miss Northeast Texas	21	Piano "4th Movement of Sonata in C" by Alberto Ginastera	Non-finalist Interview Award

1992	Amy Parker	Carrollton	Miss Tarrant County	22	Vocal "A Sunday Kind of Love"

1991	Rhonda Morrison	Coldspring	Miss Lake O' The Pines	21	Vocal "My Funny Valentine"	Top 10

1990	Suzanne Lawrence	Humble	Miss Humble/Kingwood	21	Country Vocal "Sweet Dreams"	3rd runner-up	Quality of Life Award Winner Preliminary Talent Award

1989	Leah Kay Lyle	Plainview	Miss Haltom-Richland Area	22	Piano "Sonata Opus 22" by Alberto Ginastera	Top 10

1988	Cathy Castro	McAllen	Miss Duncanville	22	Ballet en Pointe "Les toreadors"	First Hispanic woman to win Miss Texas title

1987	Rita Jo Thompson	Lufkin	Miss Greenville	22	Jazz Dance "An American Trilogy"	Top 10

1986	Stephany Samone	Dallas	Miss Grand Prairie	25	Country Vocal "Stand By Your Man"	Top 10	Preliminary Talent Award	Toured with the 1987 Miss America USO Troupe

1985	Jonna Fitzgerald	Tyler	Miss Greenville	21	Fiddle "Csárdás" & "Orange Blossom Special"	2nd runner-up	Preliminary Talent Award	Toured with 1986 Miss America USO Troupe

1984	Tamara Hext	Fort Worth	Miss Arlington	21	Vocal "I've Got a Crush On You"	4th runner-up	Preliminary Swimsuit Award

1983	Dana Rogers	Boerne	Miss San Antonio	22	Vocal "An American Trilogy"	Top 10	Featured performer at Miss America 1985 pageant

1982	Gloria Gilbert	Millsap	Miss Palo Pinto County	20	Ventriloquism & Vocal "I've Been Everywhere"	Non-finalist Talent Award	Previously National Sweetheart 1981 Toured with 1986 Miss America USO Troupe Longtime hostess of the Miss Texas pageant television broadcast

1981	Sheri Ryman	Texas City	Miss Texas A&M	20	Gymnastics "Theme from Close Encounters of the Third Kind"	4th runner-up	Preliminary Talent Award	Toured with Miss America USO Troupe

1980	Terri Eoff	Lubbock	Miss Lubbock	19	Dramatic performance from "A Bad Play For an Old Lady"	Top 10	Actress appeared on soap opera Search for Tomorrow

1979	Lex Ann Haughey	Hurst	Miss Haltom-Richland Area	20	Flute "Flight of the Bumblebee" & "Flight '76" by Walter Murphy

1978	Sandi Miller	Mesquite	Miss Red Bird Area	20	Classical Piano "Gershwin's 2nd Concerto in F Minor"	Top 10	Later Mrs. Texas 1988

1977	Lori Smith	Fort Worth	Miss Haltom-Richland Area	20	Vocal "Moanin' Low"	Top 10	Toured with Miss America USO Troupe

1976	Carmen McCollum	Odessa	Miss West Texas	19	Saxophone Medley "Wabash Cannonball", "Yakety Sax", & "If He Walked Into My Life" from Mame	2nd runner-up	Preliminary Swimsuit Award Preliminary Talent Award

1975	Mary Ellen Richardson	Waco	Miss Waco	20	Classical Vocal "The Jewel Song" from Faust	Top 10

1974	Phyllis Barger	Miss Houston	Ballet en Pointe	Assumed title after Cothran won Miss America 1975 title 3rd runner-up to Cothran at Miss Texas 1974 after 1st and 2nd runners-up turned down the title

Shirley Cothran	Denton	Miss Haltom-Richland Area	21	Flute Medley "Bumble Boogie" & "Swingin' Shepherd Blues"	Winner	Preliminary Swimsuit Award

1973	Judy Mallett	Beaumont	Miss Haltom-Richland Area	Fiddle "Csárdás" & "Orange Blossom Special"	Top 10	Toured with Miss America USO Troupe Performed in halftime show of Super Bowl VIII

1972	Mae Beth Cormany	Wichita Falls	Miss Hurst-Euless-Bedford	Vocal "Misty" & "Come Rain or Come Shine"	3rd runner-up	Toured with Miss America USO Troupe

1971	Janice Bain	San Antonio	Miss White Settlement	21	Classical Vocal "Il Bacio" by Luigi Arditi

1970	Belinda Myrick	Odessa	Miss West Texas	Country Vocal	N/A	Assumed title after George won Miss America 1971 title Toured with Miss America USO Troupe

Phyllis George	Denton	Miss Dallas	21	Piano Medley "Promises, Promises" & "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"	Winner	Preliminary Swimsuit Award	One of the first women sportscasters on network television as co-host of NFL Today on CBS (1975–77, 1980–83)

1969	Dana Dowell	White Oak	Miss Longview	19	Drum Set Solo "Cute"

1968	Glenda Propes	Henderson	Miss Rusk County	18	Vocal and Dance (Broadway)	N/A	Assumed title after Hugghins resigned

Diane Hugghins	Tyler	Miss Nacogdoches	20	Jazz Dance "Put on a Happy Face" from Bye Bye Birdie	Resigned after competing at Miss America 1969

1967	Molly Grubb	Fort Worth	Miss Fort Worth	20	Ballet en Pointe "La Périchole"

1966	Susan Logan	San Angelo	Miss Lubbock	19	Dramatic Monologue from Gone with the Wind	Top 10

1965	Mary Lou Butler	Irving	Miss Nacogdoches	19	Vocal

1964	Lenda Varley	Fort Worth	Miss Fort Worth	19	Vocal	N/A	Assumed title after McCauley resigned

Sharon McCauley	Athens	Miss Athens	20	Vocal "Let Me Entertain You" from Gypsy: A Musical Fable	3rd runner-up	After competing at Miss America 1965, resigned to marry the Miss Texas stage director

1963	Jeanne Amacker	Beaumont	Miss Austin	Vocal "When You Wish upon a Star"

1962	Penny Lee Rudd	Waskom	Miss Marshall	19	Jazz Dance "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps"	2nd runner-up

1961	Linda Loftis	Fort Worth	Miss Fort Worth	19	Classical Vocal "Sempre Libera" from La traviata	3rd runner-up	Preliminary Talent Award

1960	Mary Cage Moore	Laredo	Miss Dallas	18	Spanish Dance to music by Manuel de Falla	Non-finalist Talent Award

1959	Marilyn Turner	Fort Worth	Miss Fort Worth	19	Ballet en Pointe	Non-finalist Talent Award

1958	Mary Nell Hendricks	Arlington	Miss Arlington	Vocal "Getting to Know You"	Top 10	Contestant at Miss Dixie 1959

1957	Carolyn Calvert	Austin	Miss Austin	Monologue from "Medea"	Contestant at Miss Dixie 1958

1956	Barbara Murray	Houston	Miss Houston	Vocal	Contestant at Miss Dixie 1957

1955	June Prichard	Seymour	Miss West Texas	Horseback riding and rodeo events	1st runner-up at Miss Dixie 1957

1954	Yvonne Erwin	Dallas	Miss Dallas	Piano & Art

1953	Paula Lane	Cleburne	Miss Cleburne	Fashion design & Speech

1952	Connie Hopping	Littlefield	Miss Littlefield	Vocal

1951	Glenda Holcomb	Odessa	Miss West Texas	Dramatic Monologue

1950	Margaret Sommers	Dallas	Miss Dallas	Classical Vocal "Jealousy"	Top 16

1949	Ysleta Leissner	Fort Worth	Miss Fort Worth	Ballet en Pointe

1948	Bonnie Jean Bland	Orange	Miss Orange	Vocal/Art Display "Put the Blame on Mame"

1947	Luna McClain	Lufkin	Miss Lufkin	Vocal "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" & "Cowboy Boogie"	Miss Congeniality

1946	D. Anne Wisener	University Park	Miss University Park	Vocal "Embraceable You"

1945	Polly Below	Galveston	Miss Galveston	Vocal	Top 13

1944	Joyce Courrege	Orange	Miss Orange	Comedy Monologue	Miss Congeniality

1943	No Texas representative at Miss America pageant

1942	Jo-Carroll Dennison	Tyler	Miss Tyler	19	Vocal and Dance "Deep in the Heart of Texas"	Winner	Preliminary Swimsuit Award Preliminary Talent Award

1941	Gloria Ann Byrns	Port Arthur	Miss Port Arthur	Tap Dance & Baton Twirling	N/A	Returned as Miss Texas in 1941 because Texas held on contest Withdrew from Miss America 1941 contest due to illness

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1939	Charmayne Smith	Dallas	Miss Dallas	Vocal "Round-Up Time in Texas"	Top 15

1938	No Texas representative at Miss America pageant

1937	Olive Henderson	Miss San Antonio	Multiple Texas representatives Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant

Alice Emerick	Fort Worth	Miss Texas	Tap Dance	1st runner-up

1936	Patricia Allen Green	Corpus Christi	Miss Corpus Christi	Top 15	No Miss Texas Competed under local title at Miss America pageant

1935	No Texas representative at Miss America pageant

1934	No pageant was held

1933	No Texas representative at Miss America pageant

1932	No pageants were held

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1927	Moselle Ransome	Miss Dallas	1st runner-up	Multiple Texas representatives Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant

Mildred Casad	Miss El Paso

Juanita Gilbert	Miss Fort Worth

1926	Rosebud Blondell	Miss Dallas	Top 15	Multiple Texas representatives Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant

Winnie Law	Miss Fort Worth

Zasada Lord	Miss Houston

1925	Elinore Wilkens	Miss Dallas	Multiple Texas representatives Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant

Mary Louise Kilman	Miss Fort Worth

Edna Francis	Miss Houston

1924	Vera Simpson	Miss Austin	Multiple Texas representatives Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant

Freeda Rowley	Miss Beaumont

Etta Mae Collins	Miss Dallas

Hazel Doolin	Miss Fort Worth

Lorraine Holzhaus	Miss Galveston

Mary C. Wilmot	Miss Houston

Name not known	Miss Irvington

Katherine Hensley	Miss San Antonio

Thelma Kirsch	Miss Texas City

1923	Ruth Elizabeth Brand	Miss Dallas	Top 23	Multiple Texas representatives Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant

Bessie Laurene Roosa	Miss Fort Worth

Gladys M. Webber	Miss Houston

Katherine Hensley	Miss San Antonio

1922	No Texas representative at Miss America pageant

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Madison Fuller of Fairfield was crowned Miss Texas in 2018.

final_sentence: Madison Fuller of Fairfield was crowned Miss Texas in 2018.