Miss Georgia (U.S. state)
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Tammy Fulwider, Miss Georgia 1983 (taken in 2009)
Emily Cook, Miss Georgia 2009.
The Miss Georgia competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Georgia in the Miss America pageant.
Georgia has won the Miss America crown twice--Lakeland, Florida native Neva Jane Langley who won the 1953 Miss America title, and in 2015 when Baciliky "Betty" Andris Cantrell of Warner Robins was named Miss America 2016, making her the first native-born Miss Georgia to hold the Miss America title.
Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age | Local Title | Miss America Talent | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Adeline Kenerly[1] | Jesup | 21 | Miss Capital City | Did not compete | Succeeded Betty Cantrell | ||
| Betty Cantrell | Warner Robins | 20 | Miss Warner Robins | Classical Vocal "Tu Tu Piccolo Iddio" from Madame Butterfly | Winner | Preliminary Talent Award | ||
| 2014 | Maggie Bridges | Brinson | 21 | Miss Capital City | Vocal "Bridge over Troubled Water" | CMN Miracle Maker 1st runner-up, STEM Scholarship Award | ||
| 2013 | Carly Mathis | Leesburg | 22 | Miss Atlanta | Vocal "On My Own" | Top 10 | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2012 |
| 2012 | Leighton Jordan | Suwanee | 19 | Miss Capital City | Ballet en Pointe "Malagueña" | |||
| 2011 | Michaela Lackey[2] | Marietta | 21 | Miss Heart of Lakes | Classical Ballet En Pointe "Tournament Gallop" by Louis Moreau Gottschalk | Miss Georgia's Outstanding Teen 2007 | ||
| 2010 | Christina McCauley[3] | Marietta | 21 | Miss Southern Heartland | Classical Vocal "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen" | Quality of Life Finalist | ||
| 2009 | Emily Cook | Marietta | 21 | Miss Cobb County | Oboe "Gershwin's Prelude No. 1" | Accepted responsibilities as Miss Georgia, after being announced 1st RU the night before | ||
| Kristina Higgins | Dacula | Miss Capital City | Less than 24 hours after winning the crown, Higgins stepped down from her role as Miss Georgia to pursue her career. | |||||
| 2008 | Chasity Hardman | Columbus | 24 | Miss Capital City | Vocal "Home" | 1st runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | Third African-American woman to represent the state in the Miss America Pageant, Sherri Hill Model, Received a "golden sash" and was voted into the Top 15 at Miss America by the American viewing public |
| 2007 | Leah Massee | Fitzgerald | 24 | Miss Capital City | Vocal "If I Had My Way" | Top 10 | A Phi Mu from Valdosta State University | |
| 2006 | Amanda Kozak | Warner Robins | 22 | Miss Valdosta | Tap Dance "Baby I'm a Star" | 2nd runner-up | Second African-American woman to represent the state in the Miss America Pageant, 1st runner-up at National Sweetheart 2005, Miss Georgia USA 2008 | |
| 2005 | Monica Pang | Atlanta | 25 | Miss Lake Lanier | Classical Piano "Chopin's Polonaise in G Sharp Minor" | 1st runner-up | National Sweetheart 2004 | |
| 2004 | Danica Tisdale | Atlanta | 24 | Miss Atlanta | Vocal "Please Send Me Someone to Love" | Top 10 | Preliminary Talent Award | First African-American woman to represent the state in the Miss America Pageant |
| 2003 | Andrea Bailey | Evans | 24 | Miss Savannah | Vocal "Sometimes I Dream" | Top 15 | National Sweetheart 1999 | |
| 2002 | Amy Mulkey | Gainesville | 23 | Miss Atlanta | Classical Piano "Khachaturian's Toccata" | Preliminary On-Stage Interview Award | ||
| 2001 | Emily Foster | Cornelia | 23 | Miss Northwest Georgia | Piano "Majesty" | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | ||
| 2000 | Pamela Kennedy | LaGrange | 23 | Miss Atlanta | Vocal "Vienna" | |||
| 1999 | Osjha Anderson | Glennville | 24 | Miss University of Georgia | Vocal "Can't Help Loving That Man" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1998 | April Brinson | Bainbridge | 20 | Miss Greater Southwest Georgia | Vocal "Tell Him" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1997 | Candice Little | Hartwell | 23 | Miss Lake Lanier | Tap Dance "Jump 'N Jive" | |||
| 1996 | Shea Olliff | Augusta | 24 | Miss Northeast Georgia | Popular Vocal "Can You Read My Mind" | Allman Medical Scholarship | ||
| 1995 | Rachel English | Thomaston | 21 | Miss University of Georgia | Tap Dance "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" | Georgia's Junior Miss 1991, Father Paschal English was a contestant on Survivor: Marquesas | ||
| 1994 | Andrea Krahn | Calhoun | 20 | Miss West Coast Georgia | Vocal "I Fall to Pieces" | 3rd runner-up | Assumed the Miss Georgia title | |
| Joanne Grogan[4] | Miss University of Georgia | Resigned the day after the pageant to pursue career opportunities; Currently a meteorologist for Fox 5 Atlanta under her married name, Joanne Feldman[5] | ||||||
| 1993 | Kara Martin | Statesboro | 23 | Miss Southeast Georgia | Tap Dance "Mack the Knife" | 1st runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Contestant at National Sweetheart 1991 |
| 1992 | Stephanie Michels | Marietta | 24 | Miss Southeast Georgia | Vocal / Dance "The Phantom of the Opera" | Appeared on Broadway in The Life and in Contact | ||
| 1991 | Kimberly Hardee | Lilburn | 20 | Miss Stone Mountain | Vocal Medley from The Phantom of the Opera | Became Reality TV pageant coach on Lifetime's Kim of Queens introduced in 2013 | ||
| 1990 | Darla Pruett | Canton | 22 | Miss Northeast Georgia | Vocal "Some Enchanted Evening" | Non-finalist Interview Award (tie) | ||
| 1989 | Jamie Price | Tucker | 22 | Miss DeKalb County | Popular Vocal "When You Wish upon a Star" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1988 | Frances Frazier | Rome | 26 | Miss Peachtree City | Popular Vocal | |||
| 1987 | Kelly Jerles | Perry | 20 | Miss Cobb County | Vocal "Where the Boys Are" | Preliminary Swimsuit Award, Non-finalist Talent Award | Miss Georgia Teen USA 1983 and 3rd runner-up at Miss Teen USA 1983 | |
| 1986 | Marlesa Ball[6] | Thomasville | 23 | Miss Southeast Georgia | Vocal "Amazing Grace" | Top 10 | ||
| 1985 | Samantha Mohr[7] | Columbus | 23 | Miss Columbus | Popular Vocal "Wind Beneath My Wings" | |||
| 1984 | Camille Bentley | Thomasville | 19 | Miss Thomasville | Popular Vocal "Until Now" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1983 | Tammy Fulwider | Columbus | 24 | Miss Southeast Georgia | Tap Dance / Vocal "42nd Street" | Pet lifestyle expert and actress under professional name Megan Blake | ||
| 1982 | Bobbie Eakes | Warner Robins | 21 | Miss University of Georgia | Vocal "Let's Hear It For Me" from Funny Lady | Top 10 | Actress best known for her role as Macy Alexander on The Bold and the Beautiful | |
| 1981 | Kristl Evans | Atlanta | 21 | Miss West Central Georgia | Vocal "Ring Them Bells" | 2nd runner-up | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | |
| 1980 | Lynn Smith | Savannah | 23 | Miss Savannah | Vocal "Get Happy" & "Hallelujah" | |||
| 1979 | Sandra Eakes | Warner Robins | 22 | Miss Macon | Popular Vocal "The Trolley Song" & "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Sister of Miss Georgia 1982 Bobbie Eakes | |
| 1978 | Deborah Mosely | Atlanta | 21 | Miss Dekalb County | Vocal "Summertime" & "I Got Plenty of Nothing" from Porgy and Bess | One of her runners-up was Vanna White. | ||
| 1977 | Pam Souders | Thomasville | 18 | Miss Thomasville | Classical Vocal "Sempre Libera" from La Traviata | |||
| 1976 | Sandy Adamson | Atlanta | 20 | Miss South Cobb | Tap Dance "I Can Do That" | Dr. David B. Allman Medical Scholarship | ||
| 1975 | Seva Day | Thomasville | 19 | Miss Thomasville | Vocal "My Man" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | |
| 1974 | Gail Nelson | Atlanta | 22 | Miss Atlanta | Vocal Medley "So Long, Dearie", "Put On Your Sunday Clothes", & "Before the Parade Passes By" from Hello, Dolly! | |||
| 1973 | Gail Bullock | Thomasville | 19 | Miss West Georgia College | Ballet "Theme from Summer of '42" | |||
| 1972 | Lisa Lawalin | Rome | 20 | Miss Cedar Valley | Vocal "I Could Have Danced All Night" | |||
| 1971 | Cynthia Cook | Smyrna | 20 | Miss Cobb County | Ventriloquist Act, Singing & Interpretations | Top 10 | Preliminary Talent Award | |
| 1970 | Nancy Carr | Midland | 22 | Miss Hamilton on the Square | Popular Vocal "I Wish You Love" | |||
| 1969 | Marilyn Olley | Marietta | 19 | Miss Cobb County | Dramatic Interpretation & Dance "Romeo and Juliet" | |||
| 1968 | Burma Davis | Warner Robins | 20 | Miss Warner Robins | Vocal "This Is My Country" | |||
| 1967 | Sandra McRee | Atlanta | 19 | Miss Atlanta | Classical Vocal "Caro Mio Ben" | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | ||
| 1966 | Maudie Walker | Tifton | 20 | Miss Tifton | Interpretive Dance | |||
| 1965 | Mary Jane Yates | Savannah | 20 | Miss Coffee County | Semi-classical Vocal "With a Song In My Heart" | |||
| 1964 | Vivian Davis | Augusta | 19 | Miss Augusta | Skit & Vocal | 2nd runner-up at Maid of Cotton 1966 | ||
| 1963 | Nancy Middleton | Macon | Miss Macon | Semi-classical Vocal | ||||
| 1962 | Jeannie Cross | Albany | 18 | Miss Albany | Jazz Dance | Top 10 | ||
| 1961 | Glenda Brunson | Savannah | 18 | Miss Savannah | Spanish Dance | |||
| 1960 | Sandra Tally | Homerville | 18 | Piano "Deep Purple" | ||||
| 1959 | Kayanne Shoeffner | Calhoun | 19 | Dramatic Reading | ||||
| 1958 | Jeanette Ardell | Marietta | Archery | Miss Dixie 1959 | ||||
| 1957 | Jody Shattuck | Atlanta | Miss Cobb County | Vocal & Dance "Namely You" from Li'l Abner | 1st runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | ||
| 1956 | Jane Morris | East Point | Ballet | Contestant at Miss Dixie 1957 | ||||
| 1955 | Jeanine Parris | Atlanta | Dramatic Monologue | Contestant at Miss Dixie 1956 | ||||
| 1954 | Mary Jane Doar | Macon | Vocal "Gershwin Medley" | 4th runner-up | ||||
| 1953 | Lucia Hutchinson | Macon | Miss Macon | Operatic Vocal "Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix" from Samson et Dalila & "Love Is Where You Find It" from The Kissing Bandit | ||||
| 1952 | Neva Jane Langley | Macon | 19 | Miss Macon | Classical Piano "Toccata" | Winner | Preliminary Swimsuit Award, Preliminary Talent Award | |
| 1951 | Carol Taylor | Alma | Monologue | |||||
| 1950 | Louise Thomas | Fitzgerald | Miss Fitzgerald | |||||
| 1949 | Dorothy Johnston | LaGrange | Miss Troup County | Vocal from H.M.S. Pinafore | ||||
| 1948 | Gwen West | Statesboro | ||||||
| Jerry Long | Atlanta | Tap Dance "Cherokee" | Top 15 | Competed as Miss Atlanta | ||||
| 1947 | Robbie Sauls | Cuthbert | Vocal "Smilin' Through" | |||||
| Joy Elizabeth Smith | Atlanta | Vocal "Eccentric Dance" | Competed as Miss Atlanta | |||||
| 1946 | Mary Lou Henderson | Columbus | Miss Columbus | |||||
| Janey Miller | Atlanta | Classical Vocal "Vissi d'arte" | 2nd runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award, Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Competed as Miss Atlanta | |||
| 1945 | Doris Coker | Columbus | Miss Columbus | Vocal "Candy" | ||||
| Pauline Walker | Atlanta | Competed as Miss Atlanta; the original winner, Peggy Payne, was disqualified as she was married when she won[citation needed] | ||||||
| 1944 | Trudie Hayward | Atlanta | ||||||
| Mary Ann Linane | Atlanta | Competed as Miss Atlanta | ||||||
| 1943 | Barbara Britton | Atlanta | Competed as Miss Atlanta | |||||
| 1941 | Esther Shepard | Griffin | Top 15 | |||||
| Gladys Collins | Savannah | Competed as Miss Savannah | ||||||
| 1939 | Mary Durrance | Glennville | Competed in the pageant a second year, this time as Miss Georgia | |||||
| 1938 | Mary Durrance | Vocal | Competed as Miss Atlanta | |||||
| Alice Talton | Atlanta | Competed as Miss Atlanta | ||||||
| 1937 | Lorraine Mayfield | Atlanta | Competed as Miss Atlanta | |||||
| Carolyn Cumbie | Competed as Miss Savannah Beach | |||||||
| 1936 | Hilda Veale | Watkinsville | ||||||
| Ora York | Atlanta | Competed as Miss Atlanta | ||||||
| 1935 | La Rue Wilson | Atlanta | Competed as Miss Atlanta | |||||
| 1924 | No Miss Georgia | Estelle Bradley, Miss Atlanta, finished as a Top 10. Anne Davis competed as Miss Columbus. | ||||||
| 1923 | No Miss Georgia | Frances Thayer competed as Miss Atlanta. | ||||||
| 1922 | No Miss Georgia | Irma Knabe competed as Miss Atlanta and Frances Gurr competed as Miss Macon. | ||||||
References
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- ↑ [1] Miss Georgia Winners Announced
- ↑ [2] Grogan Crowned Miss Georgia
- ↑ [3] Fourth time's the charm for Cobb's queen
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