| Year
|
Name
|
Hometown
|
Education
|
Age
|
Local Title
|
Miss America Talent
|
Placement at Miss America
|
Special scholarships at Miss America
|
Notes
|
| 2022
|
Gracie Reichman[2] |
Colfax
|
Louisiana Tech University
|
21
|
Miss Louisiana Watermelon Festival
|
Clogging
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
Previously Miss Louisiana’s Outstanding Teen 2018[3] |
| 2021
|
Julia Claire Williams[4] |
Kinder
|
ULM
|
22
|
Miss Heart of Pilot
|
Dance, “Last Dance”
|
|
STEM Scholarship 1st runner-up
|
Previously Miss Louisiana’s Outstanding Teen 2015[5] |
| 2020
|
Courtney Hammons[6] |
Choudrant
|
Louisiana Tech University
|
23
|
Miss Louisiana Tech
|
No talent competition
|
Did not compete; 1st runner-up at Miss Louisiana 2019 pageant, later assumed the 2020 title to finish Crews’s reign after the former had to continue her education; 2020 state pageant was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic[7] |
| 2019
|
Meagan Crews[8] |
Bossier City
|
LSU Shreveport
|
22
|
Miss Louisiana Watermelon Festival
|
Vocal, “I Will Always Love You”
|
|
Non-Finalist Talent Award
|
Previously Miss Louisiana’s Outstanding Teen 2014[9] |
| 2018
|
Holli’ Conway[10] |
Monroe
|
Northwestern State University
|
23
|
Miss Heart of Pilot
|
Vocal, “I Believe”
|
2nd runner-up[11] |
Preliminary Talent Award[12] |
Current alternate for the Broadway production of SIX: The Musical
Appeared in the Broadway production of TINA: The Tina Turner Musical[13]
|
| 2017
|
Laryssa Bonacquisti[14] |
Baton Rouge
|
LSU
|
22
|
Miss Shreveport
|
Ventriloquism, “I Wanna Be a Cowboy Sweetheart”
|
Top 7[15] |
Preliminary Lifestyle and Fitness Award[16]
Preliminary Talent Award[17]
|
Daughter of Miss New Jersey 1990, Lynette Falls Bonacquisti[18] |
| 2016
|
Justine Ker[19] |
Ruston
|
Vanderbilt University
|
22
|
Miss Louisiana Watermelon Festival
|
Classical Piano
|
Top 15[20] |
|
Cousin of Miss California 2013 and 1st runner-up at Miss America 2014, Crystal Lee[21]
Previously Miss Louisiana’s Outstanding Teen 2011[22]
|
| 2015
|
April Nelson[23] |
Mandeville
|
OCU
|
23
|
Miss Crescent City New Orleans
|
Vocal, “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” from The Sound of Music
|
3rd runner-up
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
Previously Miss Louisiana’s Outstanding Teen 2008[24] |
| 2014
|
Lacey Sanchez[25] |
Baton Rouge
|
LSU / Southeastern Louisiana University
|
24
|
Miss Lafayette
|
Vocal, “Not for the Life of Me” from Thoroughly Modern Millie
|
|
CMN Miracle Maker 2nd runner-up
Non-finalist Interview Award
|
|
| 2013
|
Jaden Leach[26] |
West Monroe
|
ULM
|
20
|
Miss Spirit of the Ouachita
|
Vocal, “I Can’t Let Go” from Smash
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 2012
|
Lauren Vizza[27] |
Shreveport
|
Louisiana Tech
|
22
|
Miss Louisiana Tech
|
Dance, “The Time of My Life” by David Cook
|
|
|
Later Miss Louisiana USA 2018[28] |
| 2011
|
Hope Anderson[29] |
Monroe
|
ULM / Louisiana Tech
|
22
|
Miss Spirit of Ruston
|
Dance, “Sway”
|
Top 10
|
CMN Miracle Maker Award
|
Contestant at National Sweetheart 2009 pageant
|
| 2010
|
Kelsi Crain[30] |
Monroe
|
ULM
|
20
|
Miss ULM
|
Ballet en Pointe, “Victory”
|
|
|
|
| 2009
|
Katherine Putnam[31] |
Oak Grove
|
ULM
|
23
|
Miss Shreveport
|
Piano, “Hallelujah Chorus” from Handel’s Messiah
|
3rd runner-up
|
CMN Miracle Maker Award
|
|
| 2008
|
Blair Abene[32] |
Hammond
|
Southeastern Louisiana
|
22
|
Miss Lincoln Parish
|
Classical Vocal, “Nessun dorma”
|
|
|
Previously Miss Teen Louisiana 2002[33]
Top 10 at National Sweetheart 2006 pageant
|
| 2007
|
Amanda Joseph
|
Pineville
|
LSU / ULM
|
21
|
Miss Bossier City
|
Ballet en Pointe, “Canned Heat”
|
|
|
|
| 2006
|
Jamie Wilson
|
Minden
|
Louisiana Tech / LSU Law
|
23
|
Miss Louisiana Watermelon Festival
|
Vocal, “Like We Never Loved at All”
|
|
|
Contestant at National Sweetheart 2005 pageant
|
| 2005
|
Molly Causey[34][35] |
Ruston
|
Louisiana Tech / LSU
|
22
|
Miss Shreveport
|
Piano, “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2” by Franz Liszt
|
|
|
Previously Miss Teen Louisiana 1999
Contestant at National Sweetheart 2004 pageant
|
| 2004
|
Jennifer Dupont
|
Plaquemine
|
LSU
|
23
|
Miss Ouachita Parish
|
Jazz Dance, “The Life of the Party” from The Wild Party
|
1st runner-up
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
|
Triple Crown Winner
|
| 2003
|
Melissa Clark[36] |
Ruston
|
Louisiana Tech
|
23
|
Miss Louisiana Tech
|
Vocal, “The Prayer”
|
|
|
Previously Miss Teen Louisiana 1998
Contestant at National Sweetheart 2000 pageant
Previously National Sweetheart 2001
|
| 2002
|
Casey Crowder[37] |
Shreveport
|
Northwestern State
|
23
|
Miss Ark-La-Miss Fair
|
Vocal Medley, “This Can’t Be Love” & “Almost Like Being in Love”
|
|
|
Previously Miss Teen Louisiana 1995
|
| 2001
|
Kati Guyton[38] |
Bossier City
|
Ouachita Baptist / LSU Shreveport
|
23
|
Miss Louisiana Watermelon Festival
|
Vocal, “Your Daddy’s Son” from Ragtime
|
|
|
Previously Miss Teen Louisiana 1996[39] |
| 2000
|
Faith Jenkins
|
Shreveport
|
Louisiana Tech / Southern Law
|
24
|
Miss Louisiana Lagniappe
|
Vocal, “If I Could”
|
1st runner-up
|
Preliminary Talent Award
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
Quality of Life Award
|
|
| 1999
|
Julie Lawrence
|
Destrehan
|
New Orleans
|
22
|
Miss Louisiana Stock Show
|
Ballet en Pointe, “I, Don Quixote” from Man of La Mancha
|
|
Miss America Scholar
Non-finalist Talent Award
Preliminary Talent Award
|
Contestant at National Sweetheart 1998 pageant
|
| 1998
|
Heather Dupree
|
Baton Rouge
|
LSU
|
21
|
Miss Louisiana Lagniappe
|
Ventriloquism, “Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)”
|
|
Quality of Life Award 1st runner-up
|
Previously Miss Louisiana Teen USA 1993
|
| 1997
|
Mette Boving
|
Ruston
|
Louisiana Tech
|
24
|
Miss Holiday in Dixie
|
Popular Vocal, “How Do I Live”
|
Top 10
|
|
Later Mrs. Colorado 2015[citation needed] |
| 1996
|
Erika Schwarz
|
Folsom
|
Loyola
|
24
|
Miss St. Tammany Parrish
|
Original Piano Composition, “New Orleans Rhapsody”
|
1st runner-up
|
Quality of Life Award 2nd runner-up
|
Judge for the Miss America 2006 pageant[citation needed] |
| 1995
|
Karmyn Tyler
|
Shreveport
|
Centenary / Texarkana College / TAMU–Texarkana
|
20
|
Miss City of Roses
|
Classical Vocal, “Tu che di gel sei cinta”
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 1994
|
Tiffany Mock
|
Bossier City
|
Northeast Louisiana
|
23
|
Miss Shreveport
|
Vocal, “Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart”
|
|
|
|
| 1993
|
Catherine Teague
|
Shreveport
|
Louisiana Tech
|
20
|
Miss Natchitoches City of Lights
|
Vocal, “Listen To My Heart”
|
|
|
|
| 1992
|
Elizabeth Haynes
|
Baton Rouge
|
Louisiana Tech / LSU
|
24
|
Miss Caddo Lake
|
Piano Medley, “El Cumbanchero” & “Cumana”
|
|
|
|
| 1991
|
Christi Page
|
Ruston
|
Louisiana Tech
|
21
|
Miss Caney Lake
|
Piano / Vocal, “Great Balls of Fire”
|
Top 10
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
|
|
| 1990
|
Linnea Fayard
|
Shreveport
|
LSU Shreveport / Louisiana Tech
|
22
|
Miss Louisiana Super Derby Festival
|
Vocal, “Stormy Weather”
|
4th runner-up
|
|
|
| 1989
|
Stacy King
|
Slidell
|
Louisiana Tech
|
23
|
Miss Louisiana Deep South
|
Banjo Medley, “Dueling Banjos” & “Ghost Riders”
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
|
|
| 1988
|
Valerie Brosset
|
West Monroe
|
Northeast Louisiana
|
21
|
Miss Louisiana Stockshow
|
Contemporary Ballet, “Singin’ in the Rain”
|
Top 10
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
|
|
| 1987
|
Patricia Brant
|
Monroe
|
Northeast Louisiana
|
23
|
Miss Red River Valley
|
Ventriloquism, “Arizona Yodeler” & “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”
|
1st runner-up
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
| 1986
|
Amanda Mainord
|
Baton Rouge
|
LSU
|
20
|
Miss Louisiana State University
|
Vocal, “When You Wish upon a Star”
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 1985
|
Carol Carter
|
Shreveport
|
LSU Shreveport
|
20
|
Miss Louisiana State University-Shreveport
|
Vocal, “Corner of the Sky” from Pippin
|
|
|
Later Miss Louisiana USA 1987
|
| 1984
|
Nita Whitaker
|
Northeast Louisiana
|
24
|
Miss Louisiana Forest Festival
|
Popular Vocal, “Over the Rainbow”
|
|
|
First African American to win Miss Louisiana[citation needed] |
| 1983
|
Miriam Gauthier
|
|
19
|
Miss Bossier City
|
Piano, “Toccata” by Antonio Tauriello
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 1982
|
Bobbie Candler
|
Baton Rouge
|
LSU
|
25
|
Miss Baton Rouge
|
Semi-classical Vocal, “With a Song in My Heart”
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
Previously National Sweetheart 1979
|
| 1981
|
Donese Worden
|
Monroe
|
Northeast Louisiana
|
22
|
Miss Northeast Louisiana University
|
Violin, “Millionaire’s Hoe-Down”
|
|
|
|
| 1980
|
Martha “Missy” Crews
|
Baton Rouge
|
LSU
|
22
|
Miss Baton Rouge
|
Ballet en Pointe, “Jet Song” from West Side Story
|
|
|
|
| 1979
|
Myrrah McCully
|
Monroe
|
24
|
Miss North Louisiana Paperland
|
Piano, “Piano Concerto in D-flat major” by Aram Khachaturian
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 1978
|
Phyllis Kelly
|
Baton Rouge
|
Southeastern Louisiana
|
20
|
Miss Southeastern Louisiana University
|
Classical Vocal, “Italian Street Song” from Naughty Marietta
|
Top 10
|
|
|
| 1977
|
Donna Holt
|
Tioga
|
Louisiana College
|
21
|
Miss Plain Dealing Dogwood
|
Semi-classical Vocal, “My Tribute”
|
|
|
|
| 1976
|
Candy Sue Crocker
|
Hammond
|
Southeastern Louisiana / Northeast Louisiana
|
22
|
Miss Plain Dealing Dogwood
|
Vocal / Tap Dance, “Swanee”
|
|
|
|
| 1975
|
Becky Wilson
|
Bossier City
|
Louisiana Tech
|
23
|
Miss Louisiana Watermelon Festival
|
Vocal, “Corner of the Sky” from Pippin
|
|
|
|
| 1974
|
Libby Lovejoy
|
Sulphur
|
SMU
|
21
|
Miss Lake Charles
|
Classical Ballet en Pointe, “The Grenadiers”
|
4th runner-up
|
|
|
| 1973
|
Debbie Ward
|
Baton Rouge
|
LSU
|
20
|
Miss Delhi
|
Vocal Medley, “A Heart That’s Free”, “I Enjoy Being a Girl”, & “I Could Have Danced All Night”
|
3rd runner-up
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
Featured performer and co-host of the Miss America 1974–1977 pageants[citation needed] |
| 1972
|
Debby Robert
|
Baton Rouge
|
LSU
|
21
|
Miss Baton Rouge
|
Classical Vocal, “The Art of Beguiling”
|
Top 10
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
| 1971
|
Avis Cochran
|
Shreveport
|
SHSU / University of Houston–Victoria
|
19
|
Miss Shreveport
|
Acrobatic Dance, Theme from Exodus
|
|
|
|
| 1970
|
Carol Almand
|
Haynesville
|
|
18
|
Miss Homer
|
Vocal, “The Wedding”
|
|
|
|
| 1969
|
Sharon Branaman
|
New Iberia
|
USL
|
19
|
Miss Lafayette
|
Classical Vocal, “Olympia’s Aria” from The Tales of Hoffmann
|
|
|
|
| 1968
|
Susanne Saunders
|
Shreveport
|
Northeast Louisiana
|
18
|
Miss Northeast Louisiana State College
|
Popular Vocal, “I Can See It”
|
|
|
|
| 1967
|
Genevieve Del Gallo
|
New Orleans
|
Loyola
|
21
|
Miss New Orleans
|
Classical Vocal, “Un Bel Di” from Madama Butterfly
|
Top 10
|
|
|
| 1966
|
Joy Woods
|
New Orleans
|
Northeast Louisiana
|
20
|
Miss Northeast Louisiana State College
|
Oboe / Dance
|
|
|
|
| 1965
|
Lynda Ferguson
|
Shreveport
|
Centenary
|
20
|
Miss Shreveport
|
Semi-classical Vocal, “Italian Street Song” from Naughty Marietta
|
Top 10
|
|
|
| 1964
|
Cherie Martin
|
Pineville
|
Northeast Louisiana
|
19
|
Miss Rapides Parrish
|
Toreador Dance & Baton Twirling
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 1963
|
Linda Gail Baucum[40] |
Springhill
|
|
18
|
Miss Springhill
|
Modern Jazz/South American Rock-Umba Dance
|
|
|
Contestant at Miss Teenage America 1962
Was originally named first runner-up at Miss Louisiana 1963 pageant[40]
Assumed title when original winner, Cathey, resigned[41]
|
| Judith Ann Cathey[41] |
West Monroe
|
|
20
|
|
|
Unable to compete; resigned moments after being crowned as she was to marry her fiancé in August 1963[41] |
| 1962
|
Diana Jane Smith
|
Oak Ridge
|
Northeast Louisiana
|
21
|
Miss Bastrop
|
Organ Medley “Lady of Spain” & “Sabre Dance”
|
|
|
|
| 1961
|
Lyndra Frances Pate
|
Shreveport
|
Centenary
|
20
|
Miss Bastrop
|
Vocal, “The House I Live In”
|
|
|
|
| 1960
|
Judith Ann Coday
|
Baton Rouge
|
LSU
|
20
|
Miss Baton Rouge
|
Vocal
|
|
|
|
| 1959
|
Mary Mills Hawkins
|
Lake Providence
|
22
|
Miss Baton Rouge
|
Piano
|
|
|
|
| 1958
|
Alberta Louise Futch
|
Hammond
|
Southeastern Louisiana
|
|
Miss Tangipahoa Parish
|
Fire Baton Twirling
|
|
|
|
| 1957
|
Beverly Leigh Norman
|
Shreveport
|
St. Mary’s College
|
|
Miss Caddo Parish
|
Vocal,”My Own True Love”
|
|
|
|
| 1956
|
Bobbie Chachere
|
Baton Rouge
|
LSU
|
|
Miss Baton Rouge
|
Dance
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 1955
|
Jan Aline Johnston
|
Ruston
|
Louisiana Tech
|
|
Miss Ruston
|
Drama
|
|
|
|
| 1954
|
Gail Gleason
|
Shreveport
|
|
Miss Louisiana Tech
|
Piano & Art
|
|
|
|
| 1953
|
Sonya Lee LeBlanc
|
Baton Rouge
|
LSU
|
|
Miss Baton Rouge
|
Dance
|
|
|
|
| 1952
|
Barbara Barker
|
Monroe
|
|
|
Miss Monroe
|
Drama, “The Fog”
|
Top 10
|
|
|
| 1951
|
Jeanne Thompson
|
Baton Rouge
|
|
|
|
Dance
|
|
|
Later Miss Louisiana USA 1952 and 1953
Only woman ever to compete in Miss USA pageant twice[citation needed]
|
| 1950
|
Rowena Taliaferro
|
Winnsboro
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1949
|
Annie Hollingsworth
|
Baton Rouge
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1948
|
No Louisianan representative at Miss America pageant[42] |
| 1947
|
Ruth Mary Blust
|
New Orleans
|
|
|
|
Vocal, “This Song Is You”
|
|
|
|
| 1946
|
Marguerite McClelland
|
Baton Rouge
|
|
|
Miss Baton Rouge
|
Classical Vocal, “Frühlingsstimmen”
|
3rd runner-up
|
|
Multiple Louisiana representatives
Competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| Joyce Josephine Frink
|
New Orleans
|
|
|
Miss New Orleans
|
|
|
|
| 1945
|
Helene Shively
|
|
|
|
|
|
Competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| 1944
|
Wilhelmina Hoffman
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1943
|
Shirley Catherine Lange
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1942
|
Edna Joyce
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1941
|
Helen Yvonne Englert
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1940
|
Pauline Powell
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1939
|
Frances Helen Anello
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1938
|
Irene Blush Schomberger
|
|
|
Vocal / Trumpet / Dance
|
|
|
| 1937
|
Gertrude Rissie Miller
|
Winnsboro
|
|
|
|
|
Top 16
|
|
|
| 1936
|
Doris Huet
|
New Orleans
|
|
|
Miss New Orleans
|
|
|
|
Competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| 1935
|
No Louisiana representative at Miss America pageant[43] |
| 1934
|
No national pageant was held[44] |
| 1933
|
Marjorie Hagler
|
|
|
17
|
|
|
Top 18
|
|
|
| 1932
|
No national pageants were held[44] |
| 1931
|
| 1930
|
| 1929
|
| 1928
|
| 1927
|
Gladys Renya Moore
|
New Orleans
|
|
|
Miss New Orleans
|
|
|
|
Competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| 1926
|
Edna du Vernay
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1925
|
Thelma Roeling
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1924
|
Louise Moore
|
New Orleans
|
|
|
Miss New Orleans
|
|
Top 15
|
|
Competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| 1923
|
No Louisiana representative at Miss America pageant[45] |
| 1922
|
Maude Allison Price[46] |
New Orleans
|
|
|
Miss New Orleans
|
|
|
|
Competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| 1921
|
No Louisiana representative at Miss America pageant[47] |
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