Miss West Virginia
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The Miss West Virginia competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of West Virginia in the Miss America pageant.
Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age | Local Title | Miss America Talent | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Chelsea Malone | Morgantown | 23 | Miss Wheeling | Vocal, "Over You" | Top 15 | ||
| 2014 | Paige Madden[1] | Moundsville | 21 | Miss Southern West Virginia | Vocal "Gravity" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 2013 | Miranda Harrison | Charleston | 19 | Miss Southern West Virginia | Vocal "Feeling Good" | Won Miss West Virginia while attending Marshall University as Miss Southern West Virginia. Previous titles included Miss Kanawha Valley (WV) and Miss Hanover (in Virginia) | ||
| 2012 | Kaitlin Gates | Bridgeport | 20 | Miss Harrison County | Vocal "Since I Fell for You" | Miss West Virginia's Outstanding Teen 2006 | ||
| 2011 | Spenser Wempe | Shepherdstown | 18 | Miss North Eastern | Dance "Hallelujah" | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2010 | ||
| 2010 | Cali Young | Glen Dale | 24 | Miss Northern West Virginia | Jazz Dance "I've Got 'Cha" | |||
| 2009 | Talia Markham | Ripley | 22 | Miss Capital City | Vocal "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" | |||
| 2008 | Kayla Lynam | Short Gap | 21 | Miss Eastern Panhandle | Piano | West Virginia's Junior Miss 2005 | ||
| 2007 | Summer Wyatt | Athens | 21 | Miss Capital City | Vocal "Why Haven't I Heard from You" | |||
| 2006 | Tiffany Lawrence | Shepherdstown | 24 | Miss Jefferson County | Vocal "Black Velvet" | "People's choice" award at Miss West Virginia USA 2006 | ||
| 2005 | Kimberly Goodwin | Morgantown | 21 | Miss Morgantown | Tap Dance | |||
| 2004 | Julia Burton | Petersburg | 22 | Miss Southern West Virginia | Vocal | |||
| 2003 | Allison Williams | Morgantown | 22 | Miss Mountain State | Vocal "Where the Boys Are" | |||
| 2002 | Janna Kerns | Terra Alta | 23 | Miss Morgantown | Vocal "There You'll Be" | |||
| 2001 | Danae DeMasi | Morgantown | 20 | Miss Appalachia | Ballet en Pointe "Ravendhi" | Top 10 | Preliminary Evening Gown Award | |
| 2000 | Jodi Clark | Moundsville | 22 | Miss Point Pleasant | Ballet en Pointe "Who Will Love Me As I Am?" from Side Show | Contestant at National Sweetheart 1999 | ||
| 1999 | Lucy Ours | Petersburg | 22 | Miss Mason County | Vocal "He Grew the Tree" | |||
| 1998 | Amy Townsend | Morgantown | 23 | Miss Marion County Area | Vocal "Hopelessly Devoted to You" | |||
| 1997 | Eisa Krushansky | Westover | 24 | Miss Miss North Central | Tap Dance "Dancin' Fool" from Copacabana | |||
| 1996 | Kari Safford | Point Pleasant | 23 | Miss Ohio Valley | Vocal "God Help the Outcasts" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1995 | Elizabeth McIntyre | Dunbar | 24 | Miss Appalachia | Clogging "Dance" | |||
| 1994 | Jennifer Bopp | Elkins | 22 | Miss South Central | Vocal "Paper Moon" | National Photographer as seen in Seventeen magazine, Glamour magazine, and People magazine; National photographer for the MAO Teen Organization with President Kim Parrish Miss WV 1992 | ||
| 1993 | Cynthia Sims | Vienna | 22 | Miss Ohio Valley | Vocal "There! I've Said It Again" | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | ||
| 1992 | Kimberly Parrish | Parkersburg | 22 | Miss Marion County Area | Contemporary Ballet en Pointe "Part of Your World" | Former host on QVC, Currently on Home Shopping Network with the Kim Parrish Collection Clothing Line | ||
| 1991 | Leah Lasker | Bluefield | 23 | Miss Mercer County | Tap Dance "I'm a Brass Band" from Sweet Charity | Non-finalist Interview Award | ||
| 1990 | Melissa Costello | Shenandoah Junction | 20 | Miss Jefferson County | Vocal "Hurt" | |||
| 1989 | Lisa Bittinger | Fairmont | 21 | Miss North Central | Vocal "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" from The Phantom of the Opera | |||
| 1988 | Lisa Seagroves | Morgantown | 24 | Miss North Central | Tap Dance "They're Playing Our Song" | Contestant at National Sweetheart 1985 representing Georgia | ||
| 1987 | Saundra Patton | Morgantown | 22 | Miss North Central | Variety Act | |||
| 1986 | Shannon Barill | Charleston | 23 | Miss Charleston Area | Jazz en Pointe | |||
| 1985 | Rebecca Porterfield | Martinsburg | 21 | Miss Martinsburg-Berkeley County | Jazz Dance | |||
| 1984 | Melanne Pennington | Cross Lanes | 24 | Miss Kanawha County | Semi-classical Vocal "One Kiss" from The New Moon | |||
| 1983 | Andrea Patrick | Morgantown | 23 | Miss West Virginia University | Tap Dance "Malagueña" & "España cañí" | Miss Pennsylvania USA 1980 | ||
| 1982 | Kelly Anderson | Clarksburg | 21 | Miss Harrison County | Stylized Can-Can | Miss West Virginia USA 1984 and 1st runner-up at Miss USA 1984, Miss World USA 1984 and Top 5 finalist at Miss World 1984 | ||
| 1981 | Candy Cohen | Huntington | 24 | Miss Marshall University | Tap Dance "How High the Moon" | |||
| 1980 | Pamela Ellen Paugh | Charleston | 21 | Miss South Charleston | Vocal "Anytime"' | Sister of Miss West Virginia 1977, Aunt of JonBenét Ramsey | ||
| 1979 | Deborah Davis | Huntington | 22 | Miss Southern West Virginia | Vocal Medley "He Touched Me" from Drat! The Cat! & "Maybe This Time" from Cabaret | Top 10 | Miss West Virginia USA 1978 | |
| 1978 | Ivy Meadows | St. Albans | 22 | Miss South Charleston | Interpretive Dance "Brian's Song" | |||
| 1977 | Patricia Paugh | Parkersburg | 20 | Miss Parkersburg Area | Original Dramatic Monologue "Deadline" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Sister of Miss West Virginia 1980, Mother of JonBenét Ramsey | |
| 1976 | Teresa Lucas | Elkins | 22 | Miss Fayette County | Gymnastics Routine | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe, West Virginia's Junior Miss 1972 and Semi-finalist at America's Junior Miss | ||
| 1975 | Kristi Wick | South Charleston | 20 | Miss South Charleston | Vocal "Am I Blue?" | |||
| 1974 | Mary Derry | Morgantown | 21 | Miss West Virginia University | Semi-classical Vocal "Cycles" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1973 | Myra Elizabeth "Beth" McVey | Huntington | 20 | Miss Huntington | Classical Vocal "Quando me'n vo'" | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe, Has appeared on Broadway in The Phantom of the Opera and Beauty and the Beast | ||
| 1972 | Lynette Koper | Weirton | 21 | Miss Huntington | Presentation of Original Art Works | |||
| 1971 | Deborah Lambert | Morgantown | 19 | Miss West Virginia University | Piano "What the World Needs Now Is Love" | |||
| 1970 | Linda Dianne Barnett | Parkersburg | 19 | Miss Wood County | Modern Jazz Dance "Keem-O-Sabe" | Artist-Painter | ||
| 1969 | Judith Shoup | Gibsonia, Pennsylvania | 22 | Miss West Virginia University | Vocal Medley & French Horn "Days of Wine and Roses", "A Taste of Honey", & "I've Gotta Be Me" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Won Miss West Virginia while attending West Virginia University | |
| 1968 | Charlotte Warwick | Charleston | 22 | Miss Morris-Harvey College | Semi-classical Vocal "The Impossible Dream" | |||
| 1967 | Helen Morgan | Lewisburg | 19 | Miss Beckley | Toe & Acrobatic Dance "Teakwood Nocturne" by Roger Williams | |||
| 1966 | Judith Skunda | Weirton | 18 | Miss Weirton | Dramatic Monologue | |||
| 1965 | Lois Gay Ratcliff | Bluefield | 19 | Miss Greater Bluefield | Dramatic Reading "Lonesome Train" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1964 | Ella Dee Kessel | Ripley | 21 | Miss Morgantown | Piano Solo "Gershwin Prelude" | 2nd runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Wife of Governor Gaston Caperton, First lady of West Virginia 1989–90 |
| 1963 | Karen Childers | South Charleston | Miss Marshall University | Dramatic Reading "The Yellow Wallpaper" | Non-finalist Talent Award | |||
| 1962 | Diane Hunter | Arlington, Virginia | 20 | Miss Morgantown | Dance & Dramatic Sketch | Won Miss West Virginia while attending West Virginia University | ||
| 1961 | Carole Johnson | Rivesville | 21 | Miss Morgantown | Vocal & Dance "Hey, Look Me Over" from Wildcat & "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun" | Contestant at Miss Dixie 1962, Mother of Miss Missouri 2004 | ||
| 1960 | Mary Hoback | Bluefield | 18 | Miss Bluefield | Original Dramatic Reading | Contestant at Miss Dixie 1961 | ||
| 1959 | Janet Hill | Nitro | 21 | Dramatic Reading | Contestant at Miss Dixie 1960 | |||
| 1958 | Sandra Boyd | Fairmont | Vocal "Money Honey" | |||||
| 1957 | Janice Sickle | Fairmont | Vocal & Dance | Contestant at Miss Dixie 1958 | ||||
| 1956 | Carolyn Miller | Martinsburg | Drama | Contestant at Miss Dixie 1957 | ||||
| 1955 | Mary Fryman | Madison | Vocal | |||||
| 1954 | Miriam Reep | Clarksburg | Drama | |||||
| 1953 | Patricia Stewart | Pineville | Vocal & Impersonations | |||||
| 1952 | Nancy Rohrbough | Grafton | Dance | |||||
| 1951 | Phyllis Walker | Charleston | Drama | Top 15 | ||||
| 1949 | Georganne Steiss | Barrackville | Piano | |||||
| 1948 | Jane Queen | Huntington | Vocal & Piano | |||||
| 1947 | Joan Estep | Wheeling | Piano "Rhapsody in Blue" | Top 15 | ||||
| 1946 | Norma Salisbury | Parkersburg | Top 16 | |||||
| 1941 | Juanita Wright | Huntington | ||||||
| 1940 | Mary Bowles | Montgomery | ||||||
| Juanita Wright | Huntington | Top 15 | Competed as Miss Huntington | |||||
| 1933 | Mildred Fetty | 20 | Top 18 | |||||
| 1927 | No Miss West Virginia | Lillian Ward, Miss Huntington, placed as a Semi-finalist. Mildred Dorothy Bright competed as Miss Wheeling. | ||||||
| 1926 | No Miss West Virginia | Representing West Virginia were: Olive Davis, Miss Huntington and Cecilail Cresap, Miss Wheeling | ||||||
| 1925 | No Miss West Virginia | Eleanor McCracken competed as Miss Huntington. | ||||||
| 1923 | Neva Toby Jackson | |||||||
| 1922 | No Miss West Virginia | Mary Dange competed as Miss Wheeling. | ||||||
References
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