Year
|
Name
|
Hometown
|
Age
|
Local Title
|
Miss America Talent
|
Placement at Miss America
|
Special scholarships at Miss America
|
Notes
|
2023
|
Taylor Blatchford
|
Boulder City
|
23
|
Miss Boulder City
|
Violin
|
|
|
Distinguished Young Woman of Nevada 2018
|
2022
|
Heather Renner
|
Reno
|
23
|
Miss Las Vegas
|
Vocal
|
Top 7
|
Equity & Justice Winner
|
Previously Miss Nevada's Outstanding Teen 2016
|
2021
|
Macie Tuell[7]
|
Gardnerville
|
24
|
Miss Las Vegas
|
Vocal
|
|
|
Former personal assistant to David Copperfield[7]
|
2019–20
|
Nasya Mancini[8]
|
Sparks
|
22
|
Miss Washoe County
|
Comedic Monologue
|
|
Social Impact Initiative Scholarship Finalist[9]
|
|
2018
|
Alexis Hilts[10]
|
Las Vegas
|
23
|
Miss UNLV
|
Piano, "Transcendental Étude No. 4" by Franz Liszt
|
|
STEM Scholarship Award[11]
|
Previously Miss Nevada's Outstanding Teen 2008[12]
|
2017
|
Andrea Martinez[13]
|
23
|
Miss Clark County
|
Vocal, “His Eye in on the Sparrow"
|
|
STEM Scholarship Award Finalist[14]
|
|
2016
|
Bailey Gumm[15]
|
Minden
|
20
|
Miss Pleasant Valley
|
Tap Dance, "Sax" by Fleur East
|
|
Quality of Life Award Finalist[16]
|
Previously Miss Nevada's Outstanding Teen 2011[17]
Contestant at National Sweetheart 2014 pageant
|
2015
|
Katherine Kelley[18]
|
Madisonville
|
23[18]
|
Miss Summerlin
|
Piano, "Etude in D Minor"
|
|
STEM Scholarship Award Finalist[19]
|
|
2014
|
Ellie Smith[20]
|
Henderson[20]
|
17
|
Miss North East Nevada
|
Vocal, "Somebody to Love"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award[20]
|
Sister of Miss Nevada's Outstanding Teen 2014, Amy Smith[21]
Previously Miss Nevada's Outstanding Teen 2012
|
2013
|
Diana Sweeney[22]
|
Mound House
|
19
|
Miss Carson City
|
Lyrical Dance, "Roads"
|
|
|
Contestant at National Sweetheart 2012 pageant
|
2012
|
Randi Sundquist[3]
|
Elko[3]
|
22[3]
|
Miss Southern Counties
|
Contemporary Jazz Dance, "I Won't Give Up"
|
|
|
|
2011
|
Alana Lee
|
Las Vegas
|
21
|
Miss Clark County
|
Vocal, "At This Moment"
|
|
|
|
2010
|
Cris Crotz
|
Mesquite
|
24
|
Miss Southern Counties
|
Popular Vocal, "Alone"
|
|
|
|
2009
|
Christina Keegan[23]
|
Gardnerville
|
23
|
Miss Northern Counties
|
Ballet en Pointe, "Bohemian Rhapsody"
|
|
Quality of Life Award 2nd runner-up
|
|
2008
|
Julianna Erdesz[4]
|
Reno
|
24
|
Miss Carson City
|
Vocal
|
|
|
Later Miss Nevada USA 2010
|
2007
|
Caleche Manos
|
23
|
Vocal, "Love Is a Battlefield"
|
|
Quality of Life Award Winner
|
Contestant at National Sweetheart 2006 pageant
|
2006
|
Caydi Cole
|
Las Vegas
|
22
|
Miss Clark County
|
Vocal, "Blues in the Night"
|
|
|
|
2005
|
Crystal Wosik
|
23
|
Miss Las Vegas
|
Lyrical Dance, "Don't Rain on My Parade" from Funny Girl
|
|
|
|
2004
|
Elizabeth Muto[24]
|
24
|
Dramatic Monologue, "Who Will Cry?"
|
|
Non-finalist Interview Award
Quality of Life Award 2nd runner-up
|
Received Presidential Volunteer Service Award from President George W. Bush[25]
|
2003
|
Christina O'Neil
|
Carson City
|
24
|
Miss Gold Country
|
Vocal, "Your Daddy's Son" from Ragtime
|
|
|
Contestant at National Sweetheart 1999 pageant
|
2002
|
Teresa Benitez[26]
|
Reno
|
24
|
Miss Silver State
|
Dramatic Monologue from The Laramie Project
|
3rd runner-up[2][26]
|
Overall Interview Award
Preliminary Interview Award
Quality of Life Award Winner
|
Majority Floor Leader of the Nevada Assembly[27][26]
|
2001
|
Ashley Huff[28]
|
Las Vegas
|
21
|
Miss Las Vegas
|
Polynesian Dance, "Welcome to Polynesia"
|
|
|
Later Miss Nevada USA 2003
|
2000
|
Tiffanie Story
|
Reno
|
19
|
Miss UNR/Truckee Meadows
|
Vocal, "Ain't Misbehavin'"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
1999
|
Gina Giacinto
|
Las Vegas
|
24
|
Miss Las Vegas
|
Original Vocal Presentation, "Dreams Were Given Wings To Fly"
|
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award[29]
|
Later Miss Nevada USA 2001 3rd runner-up at Miss USA 2001 pageant[30]
|
1998
|
Anna Carpenter
|
Mesquite
|
18
|
Miss Mesquite
|
Monologue
|
|
|
|
1997
|
Amanda Gunderson
|
Reno
|
19
|
Miss Northern Counties
|
Classical Vocal, "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen"
|
|
|
|
1996
|
Annette Albertson
|
24
|
Miss Truckee Meadows
|
Vocal, "Luck Be a Lady"
|
|
|
|
1995
|
Jennifer Joseph-Lier
|
Wendover
|
24
|
Miss Elko County/Northeast Nevada
|
Vocal, "I Am Changing"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
Contestant on the E! reality show "The Entertainer"[citation needed]
|
1994
|
Laura Hubach
|
Reno
|
22
|
Miss Reno
|
Classical Piano
|
|
|
|
1993
|
Mitzie Cox[31]
|
Sparks
|
20
|
Miss Sparks
|
Vocal / Dance, "I'm a Brass Band" from Sweet Charity
|
|
|
|
1992
|
Sandra Dornak
|
Las Vegas
|
25
|
Miss Las Vegas
|
Ventriloquism, "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from Mary Poppins
|
|
|
|
1991
|
Malia Winn
|
Minden
|
17
|
Miss Douglas County
|
Interpretive Ballet, music from Somewhere in Time
|
|
|
|
1990
|
Tia Marie Zorne
|
Las Vegas
|
21
|
Miss Las Vegas
|
Acro-Jazz Dance, "Julie's Theme" from American Anthem
|
|
|
|
1989
|
Brenda Linscott
|
Incline Village
|
23
|
Miss Cosmopolitan Counties
|
Vocal, "Memory" from Cats
|
|
|
|
1988
|
Deborah Schuler
|
22
|
Vocal, "The Woman in the Moon" from A Star Is Born
|
|
|
|
1987
|
Stacie James
|
Las Vegas
|
23
|
Miss Las Vegas
|
Vocal, "On My Own" from Les Misérables
|
2nd runner-up
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
1986
|
Kelsey Kara
|
Las Vegas
|
23
|
Miss Las Vegas
|
Flamenco Dance
|
|
|
|
1985
|
Sonja Nall
|
23
|
Classical Ballet en Pointe, "Kitri's Variation" from Don Quixote
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
1984
|
LeAnna Grant
|
22
|
Vocal, "I Love Paris"
|
|
|
Later Miss Nevada USA 1986
|
1983
|
Kim Pacini
|
Incline Village
|
24
|
Miss North Lake Tahoe
|
Vocal, "You're the Top"
|
|
|
|
1982
|
Kim King
|
Las Vegas
|
21
|
Miss Clark County
|
Banjo, "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee"
|
|
|
|
1981
|
Suzanne Bowman
|
Reno
|
20
|
Miss Reno
|
Modern Rhythmic Gymnastics, "Zero to Sixty in Five"
|
|
|
|
1980
|
Phyllis Hamlin[32]
|
23
|
Piano, Warsaw Concerto
|
|
|
|
1979
|
Jeanne Cangemi
|
North Lake Tahoe
|
22
|
Miss North Lake Tahoe
|
Classical & Jazz Saxophone, "Harlem Nocturne" & "Csárdás"
|
|
|
|
1978
|
Megan Anderson
|
Reno
|
19
|
Miss Washoe County
|
Classical Vocal, "Vissi d'arte" from Tosca
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
1977
|
Lori Isom
|
Las Vegas
|
18
|
Miss Clark County
|
Jazz Dance, "Classical Blues"
|
|
|
|
1976
|
Sandra Kastel
|
21
|
Miss Las Vegas
|
Vocal, "My Man"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
1975
|
Sherri Ann Lowe
|
21
|
Baton Twirling / Variety Act
|
|
|
|
1974
|
Jacqueline Barker
|
Sparks
|
19
|
Miss Sparks
|
Popular Vocal, "The Way We Were"
|
|
|
|
1973
|
Echo Rost
|
20
|
Modern Jazz Dance, "I Feel the Earth Move"
|
|
Neat As A Pin Award (tie)
|
|
1972
|
Helen Bennett[33]
|
Reno
|
23
|
Miss Reno
|
Classical Ballet, "Dance of the Gypsy"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award[33]
|
|
1971
|
Joan Burachio
|
Las Vegas
|
21
|
Miss Las Vegas
|
Accordion, "Csárdás"
|
Top 10
|
|
|
1970
|
Vicky Jo Todd
|
Sparks
|
20
|
Miss Sparks
|
Vocal / Guitar, "Time"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
1969
|
Karen Wastun
|
Yerington
|
21
|
Miss Lyon County
|
Dramatic Presentation, "Lizzie" from The Rainmaker
|
|
|
|
1968
|
Sharon Davis
|
Reno
|
19
|
Miss University of Nevada
|
Classical Vocal, "Quando m'en vò" from La bohème
|
|
|
|
1967
|
Vicky Landeck
|
18
|
Miss Reno
|
Dramatic Reading, "Ruth, the Moabitess" by N.A. Truell
|
|
|
|
1966
|
Roberta Sharp
|
Carson City
|
18
|
Miss Carson City
|
Piano
|
|
|
|
1965
|
Kathryn Blaikie
|
18
|
Musical Comedy, "I'm Late"
|
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award[34]
|
|
1964
|
Ellen Roseman
|
Sparks
|
21
|
Miss South Lake Tahoe
|
Comedy Skit
|
|
|
|
1963
|
Cheryle Thompson
|
Las Vegas
|
|
Miss Las Vegas
|
Folk Singing, "My Lover Has Gone"
|
Top 10
|
|
|
1962
|
Audrey Chambers
|
Las Vegas
|
19
|
Miss Reno
|
Baton Twirling, Fire Baton & Dance
|
|
|
|
1961
|
Sherry Wagner
|
Reno
|
19
|
Miss Reno
|
Tap Dance, "Oh Them Golden Slippers"
|
|
|
|
1960
|
Nancy Bowen[35]
|
McGill
|
19
|
|
Humorous Reading & Piano
|
|
|
|
1959
|
Dawn Wells
|
Reno
|
20
|
Miss Reno
|
Dramatic Reading from Antigone
|
|
|
Played role of Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island[36]
|
1958
|
Judy Wadsworth
|
Sparks
|
18
|
|
Dramatic Monologue from The Lark
|
|
|
|
1957
|
Loni Gravelle[37]
|
Reno
|
19
|
Miss Reno
|
Piano, "Piano Concerto in A Minor" by Edvard Grieg
|
Top 10 - 6th place
|
|
|
1956
|
Carmen Ruggeroli
|
Las Vegas
|
19
|
|
Vocal
|
|
|
|
1955
|
Vivienne Potter
|
Reno
|
21
|
Miss Reno
|
Dramatic Monologue, "An Address to the Jury"
|
|
|
|
1954
|
Janice Babcock
|
17
|
Miss Reno
|
Grecian Interpretive Dance
|
|
|
|
1953
|
Jeannine McColl
|
Las Vegas
|
18
|
Miss Las Vegas
|
Ballet, "Something to Dance About"
|
|
|
|
1952
|
Bonnie Wilson
|
Reno
|
|
Miss Reno
|
Ballet, "Something to Dance About"
|
|
|
Assumed the title after the original winner, Sylvia Russell, chose to marry[38]
|
1951
|
Donna Sollars
|
21
|
Miss Reno
|
Vocal & Ukulele, "Has Anybody Seen My Gal?" & "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man"
|
|
|
|
1950
|
Tosca Masini
|
Sparks
|
24
|
Miss Sparks
|
Comedy Characterization
|
Top 16 - 7th place
|
|
|
1949
|
Carol Lampe
|
Reno
|
20
|
|
Speech, "4-H"[39]
|
|
|
|
1935–1948
|
No Nevada representative at Miss America pageant[40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53]
|
1934
|
No national pageant was held[54]
|
1933
|
No Nevada representative at Miss America pageant[55]
|
1932
|
No national pageants were held[54]
|
1931
|
1930
|
1929
|
1928
|
1921–1927
|
No Nevada representative at Miss America pageant[56][57][58][59][60][61][62]
|