| Year
|
Name
|
Hometown
|
Age
|
Local Title
|
Miss America Talent
|
Placement at Miss America
|
Special scholarships at Miss America
|
Notes
|
| 2024
|
Abbie Stockard
|
Vestavia
|
21
|
Miss Hoover
|
Dance
|
Winner
|
AHA Go Red for Women Leadership Award Regional Winner
|
|
| 2023
|
Brianna Burrell[1]
|
Mobile
|
25
|
Miss Baldwin County
|
Vocal
|
|
Preliminary Evening Gown Award
|
|
| 2022
|
Lindsay Fincher
|
Wedowee
|
22
|
Miss University of Alabama
|
Jazz Dance, "Bossa Nova Baby"
|
|
Jean Bartel Social Impact Initiative 1st runner up
|
|
| 2021
|
Lauren Bradford[2]
|
Gulf Shores
|
21
|
Miss Jefferson County
|
Violin
|
1st runner-up
|
Jean Bartel Social Impact Initiative Winner
South Dakota University STEM Scholarship
Top Fundraiser 2nd Place
Women in Business Finalist
|
Previously Miss Alabama's Outstanding Teen 2017 after Jessica Baeder was crowned Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2018[3]
|
| 2019–20[a]
|
Tiara Pennington[6]
|
Helena
|
20
|
Miss University of Alabama
|
Classical Vocal, "Nessun Dorma" from Turandot
|
Top 7[7]
|
|
Previously Miss Alabama's Outstanding Teen 2016[8]
Top 11 at Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2017 pageant[9]
|
| 2018
|
Callie Walker[10]
|
Birmingham
|
20
|
Miss Tuscaloosa
|
Ballet en Pointe, "Hoe-Down" from Rodeo
|
Top 10[11]
|
CMN Miracle Maker Award 2nd runner-up
|
Daughter of Miss Alabama 1985, Angela Tower Walker[12]
Previously Miss Alabama's Outstanding Teen 2012[10]
|
| 2017
|
Jessica Procter[13]
|
Tuscaloosa
|
21
|
Miss Leeds Area
|
Vocal, "Over the Rainbow"
|
Top 7[14]
|
Quality of Life Award Winner[15]
|
Previously Miss Alabama's Outstanding Teen 2013[13]
2nd runner-up at Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2014 pageant[16]
|
| 2016
|
Hayley Barber[17]
|
Pelham
|
22
|
Miss Shelby County
|
Tap Dance, "Big Noise from Winnetka"
|
|
Quality of Life Award Winner[18][19]
STEM Scholarship Award[18]
CMN Miracle Maker Award[18]
|
Contestant at National Sweetheart 2013 pageant
|
| 2015
|
Meg McGuffin[20]
|
Ozark
|
22
|
Miss Phenix City
|
Jazz Ballet en Pointe, "Enigma Variation" from The Matrix
|
4th runner up
|
Quality of Life Award 2nd runner-up
|
Previously Miss Alabama's Outstanding Teen 2007
|
| 2014
|
Caitlin Brunell[21]
|
Tuscaloosa
|
22
|
Miss Leeds Area
|
Dance, "Let It Go" from Frozen
|
Top 10[22]
|
Quality of Life Award Winner[19][23]
|
Daughter of former NFL quarterback, Mark Brunell[24]
Previously Miss Virginia's Outstanding Teen 2007[25]
Previously Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2008[25][26]
|
| 2013
|
Chandler Champion[27]
|
Leeds
|
20
|
Miss Leeds Area
|
Jazz Ballet en Pointe, "Top Secret"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
Older sister of Zoe Champion, Miss Alabama's Outstanding Teen 2019[28]
|
| 2012
|
Anna Laura Bryan[29]
|
Decatur
|
22
|
Miss Hoover
|
Vocal, "Sempre Libera" from La Traviata
|
Top 12
|
Quality of Life Award Winner[19]
Duke of Edinburgh Silver Medal
|
|
| 2011
|
Courtney Porter[30]
|
Clay
|
24
|
Miss Leeds Area
|
Tap Dance, "I Got Rhythm"
|
Top 13
|
|
Chosen by fellow contestants as the "Wild Card," earning her a spot in the Top 13[31]
|
| 2010
|
Ashley Davis[32]
|
Dothan
|
21
|
Miss West Central Alabama
|
Vocal, "If I Had My Way"
|
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
|
|
| 2009
|
Liz Cochran[33]
|
Helena
|
20
|
Miss Hoover
|
Dance, "He Lives in You"
|
|
Quality of Life Award Finalist[34]
|
|
| 2008
|
Amanda Tapley[35]
|
Birmingham
|
20
|
Miss Samford University
|
Classical Piano
|
Top 15
|
Quality of Life Award 2nd runner-up
|
Was awarded a "Golden Sash" on Miss America: Countdown to the Crown, earning a spot in the Top 15 at the Miss America 2009 pageant[36]
|
| 2007
|
Jamie Langley[37]
|
Wadley
|
24
|
Miss Painted Rock
|
Vocal, "Listen"
|
|
CMN Miracle Maker Award 2nd runner-up
Quality of Life Award Finalist
|
|
| 2006
|
Melinda Toole[38]
|
Birmingham
|
23
|
Miss Samford University
|
Vocal, "Time to Say Goodbye"
|
4th runner-up
|
Miss Congeniality
Quality of Life Award 2nd runner-up
|
|
| 2005
|
Alexa Jones[39]
|
Andalusia
|
24
|
Miss Mobile
|
Ballet en Pointe, "Fuego"
|
2nd runner-up
|
Quality of Life Award 2nd runner-up
|
|
| 2004
|
Shannon Camper[40]
|
Gadsden
|
|
Miss West Central Alabama
|
Vocal
|
Did not compete; originally 1st runner-up, later assumed the title after Downs won Miss America 2005 title[41][42]
|
| Deidre Downs[41][42][43]
|
Birmingham
|
24
|
Miss Leeds Area
|
Vocal, "I'm Afraid This Must Be Love"
|
Winner[44]
|
Quality of Life Award Winner[19]
|
|
| 2003
|
Catherine Crosby[45]
|
Brewton
|
23
|
Miss Homewood Area
|
Flute, "Riverdance"
|
Top 15
|
Quality of Life Award Winner[19]
Active International For Business & Marketing
|
|
| 2002
|
Scarlotte Deupree[46]
|
Birmingham
|
22
|
Miss Camellia
|
Vocal, "Holding Out for a Hero"
|
1st runner-up
|
Quality of Life Award 1st runner-up
|
|
| 2001
|
Kelly Jones[47]
|
Birmingham
|
24
|
Miss Homewood Area
|
Classical Piano, "Ballade No. 1 in G Minor"
|
|
|
|
| 2000
|
Jana Sanderson[48]
|
Gadsden
|
21
|
Miss Samford University
|
Vocal, "I'm a Woman"
|
Top 10
|
|
|
| 1999
|
Julie Smith[49]
|
Birmingham
|
23
|
Miss Chattahoochee Valley
|
Marimba, "Flight of the Bumblebee" & Csárdás" medley
|
Top 10
|
Quality of Life Award 2nd runner-up
|
Competed with her younger twin sisters, Jill and Jennifer, at Miss Alabama 1997 pageant[50]
|
| 1998
|
Ashley Halfman[51]
|
Birmingham
|
23
|
Miss Cullman Area
|
Ballet en Pointe, "Everybody Says Don't"
|
|
|
Previously Alabama's Junior Miss 1993[52]
|
| 1997
|
Beth Stomps[53]
|
Mobile
|
20
|
Miss Alabama Music Hall of Fame
|
Vocal, "Love Changes Everything" from Aspects of Love
|
|
|
|
| 1996
|
Alison McCreary
|
Florence
|
22
|
Miss Samford University
|
Vocal, "How Great Thou Art"
|
3rd runner-up
|
Quality of Life Award Winner[19]
|
|
| 1995
|
Leigh Sherer
|
Jasper
|
22
|
Miss Walker County
|
Piano / Vocal Medley from Carmen
|
Top 10
|
Quality of Life Award Finalist
|
Current Mu Alpha Sigma Alumni (Former State and Local Contestants) coordinator of the Miss Alabama pageant under married name, Leigh Seirafi[54]
|
| 1994
|
Amie Beth Dickinson
|
|
|
Miss Samford University
|
|
Did not compete; later assumed title after Whitestone was crowned Miss America 1995
|
| Heather Whitestone
|
Birmingham
|
21
|
Miss Cullman Area
|
Ballet en Pointe, "Via Dolorosa"
|
Winner[55]
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
Preliminary Talent Award
Quality of Life Award 1st runner-up
|
First deaf woman crowned Miss Alabama and Miss America[56]
|
| 1993
|
Kalyn Chapman[57]
|
Mobile
|
22
|
Miss Leeds Area
|
Modern Dance, "The River"
|
Top 10
|
|
First African-American Miss Alabama[58]
|
| 1992
|
Kim Wimmer
|
Mobile
|
21
|
Miss Point Mallard
|
Vocal, "Hold On" from The Secret Garden
|
|
Quality of Life Award Winner[19]
|
Previously Alabama's Junior Miss 1989
|
| 1991
|
Wendy Neuendorf
|
Birmingham
|
22
|
Miss Auburn University
|
Vocal Comedy, "They Can't Take That Away From Me"
|
|
|
Previously Miss Georgia Teen USA 1986[59]
|
| 1990
|
Resha Riggins
|
Trussville
|
24
|
Miss Alabama Music Hall of Fame
|
Vocal, "Cry"
|
|
Non-finalist Interview Award
Quality of Life Award Finalist
|
|
| 1989
|
Julie Coons
|
Birmingham
|
20
|
Miss Hope
|
Vocal, "For Once In My Life"
|
|
|
|
| 1988
|
Jenny Jackson
|
Auburn
|
21
|
Miss Auburn University
|
Classical Piano, "Warsaw Concerto"
|
4th runner-up
|
|
|
| 1987
|
Kym Williams
|
Birmingham
|
22
|
Miss All-American Bowl
|
Vocal, "If We Only Have Love"
|
|
|
Assumed title after Hitt resigned[60]
|
| Julie Hitt
|
25
|
Miss Classic
|
|
N/A
|
Resigned because she felt she would not be able to fulfill responsibilities of the title[60]
|
| 1986
|
Angela Callahan
|
Birmingham
|
20
|
Miss All-American Bowl
|
Piano, "The Windmills of Your Mind"
|
Top 10
|
|
|
| 1985
|
Angela Tower
|
Birmingham
|
25
|
Miss Jefferson County
|
Ballet en Pointe, "Chariots of Fire"
|
4th runner-up
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
|
Toured with 1986 Miss America Gillette Show Troupe
Mother of Miss Alabama's Outstanding Teen 2010, Scarlett Walker, and Miss Alabama's Outstanding Teen 2012 and Miss Alabama 2018, Callie Walker [citation needed]
|
| 1984
|
Tammy Little
|
Section
|
23
|
Miss Hoover Area
|
Vocal, "Hit Me With a Hot Note" from Sophisticated Ladies
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 1983
|
Pam Battles
|
Muscle Shoals
|
21
|
Miss Dixie
|
Piano, Medley of George Gershwin pieces
|
2nd runner-up
|
|
|
| 1982
|
Yolanda Fernandez
|
Troy
|
19
|
Miss Troy State University
|
Classical Piano, "Fantasie Impromptu"
|
3rd runner-up
|
|
Previously Florida's Junior Miss 1980
Reporter for WFLA-TV Channel 8[61]
|
| 1981
|
Phoebe Stone
|
Huntsville
|
22
|
Miss Eastwood
|
Ballet, "Mame"
|
|
|
|
| 1980
|
Paige Phillips
|
Leeds
|
17
|
Miss Leeds Area
|
Double Ventriloquism / Vocal, "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody," "Swanee," & "Mame"
|
1st runner-up
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
| 1979
|
Kathy Pickett
|
Mulga
|
26
|
Miss Birmingham
|
Classical Vocal, "Sempre Libera" from La Traviata
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 1978
|
Teresa Cheatham
|
Wellington
|
20
|
Miss Point Mallard
|
Semi-classical Vocal, "And This Is My Beloved"
|
1st runner-up
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
| 1977
|
Julie Houston
|
Heflin
|
22
|
Miss Oak Mountain
|
Banjo, "Beverly Hillbillies Theme"
|
|
|
|
| 1976
|
Denise Davis
|
Russellville
|
18
|
Miss Mannequins
|
Popular Vocal
|
|
|
Toured with Miss America USO Troupe
|
| 1975
|
Susie Vaughn
|
Florence
|
21
|
Miss University of North Alabama
|
Classical Vocal, "Vilja" from The Merry Widow
|
|
|
|
| 1974
|
Pam Long
|
20
|
Miss Florence State University
|
Ventriloquism
|
|
|
Screenwriter of soap opera Guiding Light[citation needed]
|
| 1973
|
Jane Rice
|
Huntsville
|
21
|
Miss Jacksonville State University
|
Vocal, "Tapestry" & "I Will Never Pass This Way Again"
|
|
|
|
| 1972
|
Freita Fuller
|
Opelika
|
19
|
Miss Lake Eufala
|
Hula & Tahitian Dance
|
|
|
|
| 1971
|
Ceil Jenkins
|
Birmingham
|
21
|
Miss Northeast Alabama
|
Vocal / Dance, "But Alive" from Applause
|
|
|
|
| 1970
|
Suzanne Dennie
|
20
|
|
Popular Vocal, "Alfie"
|
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
| 1969
|
Ann Fowler
|
21
|
|
Vocal, "Matchmaker, Matchmaker" from Fiddler on the Roof
|
|
|
Previously Alabama's Junior Miss 1966
|
| 1968
|
Dellynne Catching
|
Birmingham
|
19
|
|
Piano Medley, "Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum," "America the Beautiful," & "This Is My Country"
|
Top 10
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
|
|
| 1967
|
Becky Alford[62][63][64][65][66]
|
Birmingham
|
20
|
|
Vocal, "Ain't This a Pretty Night" from Susannah
|
|
|
|
| 1966
|
Angie Grooms
|
Birmingham
|
21
|
|
Folk Vocal & Guitar, "Today" & "If I Had a Hammer"
|
Top 10
|
|
|
| 1965
|
Linda Folsom
|
New Brockton
|
20
|
|
Classical Vocal, "Caro Nome" from Rigoletto
|
Top 10
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
| 1964
|
Vickie Powers
|
Mobile
|
19
|
|
Classical Vocal, "Habanera"
|
Top 10
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
Featured performer on the Miss America 1966 pageant
|
| 1963
|
Judy Short
|
Birmingham
|
18
|
|
Marimba, "Horst Toccata"
|
Top 10
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
Preliminary Talent Award
|
Previously Alabama's Junior Miss 1962
|
| 1962
|
Patricia Bonner
|
Camden
|
22
|
|
Classical Vocal, "O Luce di Quest'Anima" from Linda di Chamounix
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 1961
|
Patricia Ellisor
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Assumed the title when Delores Hodgens resigned in November after competing in Miss America in September.
|
| 1961
|
Delores Hodgens
|
Bessemer
|
23
|
|
Classical Piano, "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12"
|
Top 10
|
|
|
| 1960
|
Teresa Rinaldi
|
Birmingham
|
20
|
|
Classical Vocal, "Addio" from La bohème
|
Top 10
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
| 1959
|
Betty Lindstrom
|
Birmingham
|
19
|
|
Dramatic Reading, "Miss Quiss"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 1958
|
Lee Thornberry
|
Birmingham
|
|
|
Vocal / Dance, "Honey Bun"' from South Pacific
|
Top 10
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
| 1957
|
Anna Stange
|
Birmingham
|
|
|
Monologue from Mourning Becomes Electra
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 1956
|
Anne Stuart Ariail
|
Birmingham
|
|
|
Vocal / Dance, "Ado Annie" from Oklahoma
|
2nd runner-up
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
| 1955
|
Patricia Huddleston
|
Clanton
|
21
|
|
Classical Vocal, "Pace, Pace Mio Dio!" from La Forza del Destino
|
Top 10
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
| 1954
|
Marilyn Tate
|
Haleyville
|
21
|
|
Ventriloquism / Classical Piano
|
Top 10
|
|
|
| 1953
|
Virginia McDavid[67]
|
Birmingham
|
18
|
|
Monologue, "Tara"' from Gone With the Wind
|
3rd runner-up
|
|
|
| 1952
|
Gwen Harmon
|
19
|
|
Vocal, "A Heart That's Free"
|
3rd runner-up
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
|
|
| 1951
|
Bettye Burson
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Assumed title after Jeanne Moody resigned after competing at Miss America.
|
| 1951
|
Jeanne Moody
|
Cherokee
|
21
|
|
Dramatic Skit, "Sorry Wrong Number"
|
Top 10
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
| 1950
|
Yolande Betbeze
|
Mobile
|
21
|
|
Classical Vocal, "Caro Nome" from Rigoletto
|
Winner
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
|
Betbeze's refusal to pose in a swimsuit lead to the pull-out of swimsuit sponsors Catalina and ultimately the creation of the Miss USA pageant.[68] The Miss Alabama title was not assigned to a runner-up after Yolande Betbeze won the title of Miss America.
|
| 1949
|
Freida Roser
|
Birmingham
|
|
|
Classical Vocal
|
|
|
|
| 1948
|
Martha Ann Ingram
|
Tarrant
|
|
|
Classical Vocal, "Quando me'n vo'"
|
2nd runner-up
|
|
Multiple Alabama representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| Marjorie Orr
|
Birmingham
|
|
Miss Birmingham
|
|
|
|
| 1947
|
Peggy June Elder
|
Gadsden
|
|
|
Vocal, "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now"
|
3rd runner-up
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
|
Previously "Miss Dixie 1947" Peggy June Elder Butler passed away at age 93 on April 30, 2023, at home in Gadsden, Alabama.
|
| 1946
|
Dale Nunnally
|
|
|
|
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
Multiple Alabama representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| Sue Donegan
|
Birmingham
|
|
Miss Birmingham
|
|
|
|
| 1945
|
Frances Dorn
|
Birmingham
|
|
Miss Birmingham
|
Tap Dance
|
2nd runner-up
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
Competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| 1944
|
Betty Jane Rase
|
|
Vocal Medley, "My Hero" from The Chocolate Soldier & "Lover, Come Back to Me"
|
4th runner-up
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
Preliminary Talent Award
|
| 1943
|
Toula Hagestratou
|
Birmingham
|
|
Miss Birmingham
|
|
|
Miss Congeniality
|
| 1942
|
Marie Duncan
|
Birmingham
|
|
Miss Birmingham
|
Vocal, "I Met Him On Monday"
|
Top 10
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
|
| 1941
|
Virginia McGraw
|
|
Tap Dance with Rope Jumping
|
Top 15
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
| 1940
|
Evelyn Motlow
|
Birmingham
|
|
Miss Birmingham
|
Vocal
|
|
|
Multiple Alabama representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| Carolyn Foreman
|
Montgomery
|
|
Miss Montgomery
|
|
|
|
| 1939
|
Florine Holt
|
Birmingham
|
|
Miss Birmingham
|
Vocal, "Moonglow" & "A Little Bit of Heaven"
|
Top 15
|
|
| Louise Robertson
|
Montgomery
|
|
Miss Montgomery
|
|
|
|
| 1938
|
Mildred Oxford
|
Birmingham
|
|
Miss Birmingham
|
Tap Dance / Toe Ballet
|
Top 15
|
|
| Patricia McDaniel
|
Montgomery
|
|
Miss Montgomery
|
|
|
|
| 1937
|
Josephine Beall
|
Samson
|
|
Miss Birmingham
|
|
|
|
| Ingram Starkey
|
Montgomery
|
|
Miss Montgomery
|
|
|
|
| 1936
|
Tommy Marie Peck
|
Florence
|
|
Miss Alabama
|
Won a tri-state competition held in Tupelo, Mississippi, and was awarded the title of "Miss Alabama"
|
Top 15
|
|
| Gloria Levinge
|
Birmingham
|
|
Miss Birmingham
|
Tap Dance
|
4th runner-up
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
| 1935
|
Adelynn Owen
|
Birmingham
|
23
|
Miss Birmingham
|
Recited 2 poems and sang a song in French and English
|
|
|
Competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| 1934
|
No national pageant was held[69]
|
| 1933
|
No Alabama representative at Miss America pageant
|
| 1932
|
No national pageants were held[69]
|
| 1931
|
| 1930
|
| 1929
|
| 1928
|
| 1927
|
No Alabama representative at Miss America pageant
|
| 1926
|
Vivian McDowell
|
|
|
Miss Mobile
|
N/A[70]
|
|
|
Competed under local title at national pageant
|
| 1925
|
Nellie Kincaid
|
Birmingham
|
|
Miss Birmingham
|
|
|
| 1924
|
Mildred Adams
|
Birmingham
|
|
|
|
| 1923
|
Louise Newman[71]
|
Birmingham
|
|
|
|
| 1922
|
Elise Sparrow[72]
|
24
|
|
|
Competed under local title at national pageant
Married Boston Red Sox owner, Tom Yawkey, in 1925 and later divorced in 1944[72][73]
|
| 1921
|
Lois Wilson
|
|
|
N/A
|
Competed under local title at national pageant
|
