Miss Alabama Scholarship Competition

Miss Alabama is an official preliminary to the Miss America Scholarship Competition.

The winner of Miss Alabama competes at the Miss America Scholarship Competition, representing Alabama, for a chance to win the title of Miss America and a $50,000 scholarship. Miss Alabama has four phases of competition that include: private interview, on-stage interview, evening gown and talent.

In order to compete for Miss Alabama you must be at least 17 years old and cannot be over 25 years old before December 31st in the year you hope to compete at the Miss America Scholarship Competition. In addition, you must reside, work or attend school in Alabama, have never been married nor have any children. You also need to have won a preliminary title.

Check out the winners of the Miss Alabama Scholarship Competition in the past:

Miss Alabama 2019 - Tiara Pennington
Miss Alabama 2018 – Callie Walker
Miss Alabama 2017 – Jessica Procter
Miss Alabama 2016 – Hayley Barber
Miss Alabama 2015 – Meg McGuffin
Miss Alabama 2014 – Caitlin Brunell
Miss Alabama 2013 – Chandler Champion
Miss Alabama 2012 – Anna Laura Bryan
Miss Alabama 2011 – Courtney Porter
Miss Alabama 2010 – Ashley Davis
Miss Alabama 2009 – Liz Cochran
Miss Alabama 2008 – Amanda Tapley
Miss Alabama 2007 – Jamie Langley
Miss Alabama 2006 – Melinda Toole
Miss Alabama 2005 – Alexa Jones
Miss Alabama 2004 – Shannon Camper (Assumed titled)
Miss Alabama 2004 – Deidre Downs Gunn (Miss America 2005)
Miss Alabama 2003 – Catherine Crosby
Miss Alabama 2002 – Scarlotte Deupree
Miss Alabama 2001 – Kelly Jones
Miss Alabama 2000 – Jana Sanderson
Miss Alabama 1999 – Julie Smith
Miss Alabama 1998 – Ashley Halfman
Miss Alabama 1997 – Beth Stomps
Miss Alabama 1996 – Alison McCreary
Miss Alabama 1995 – Leign Sherer
Miss Alabama 1994 – Amie Beth Dickinson (Assumed title)
Miss Alabama 1994 – Heather Whitestone (Miss America 1995)
Miss Alabama 1993 – Kalyn Chapman
Miss Alabama 1992 – Kim Wimmer
Miss Alabama 1991 – Wendy Neuendorf
Miss Alabama 1990 – Resha Riggins
Miss Alabama 1989 – Julie Coons
Miss Alabama 1988 – Jenny Jackson
Miss Alabama 1987 – Kym Williams (Assumed title)
Miss Alabama 1987 – Julie Hitt (Resigned)
Miss Alabama 1986 – Angela Callahan
Miss Alabama 1985 – Angela Tower
Miss Alabama 1984 – Tammy Little
Miss Alabama 1983 – Pam Battles
Miss Alabama 1982 – Yolanda Fernandez
Miss Alabama 1981 – Phoebe Stone
Miss Alabama 1980 – Paige Phillips
Miss Alabama 1979 – Kathy Pickett
Miss Alabama 1978 – Teresa Cheatham
Miss Alabama 1977 – Julie Houston
Miss Alabama 1976 – Denise Davis
Miss Alabama 1975 – Susie Vaughn
Miss Alabama 1974 – Pam Long
Miss Alabama 1973 – Jane Rice
Miss Alabama 1972 – Freita Fuller
Miss Alabama 1971 – Ceil Jenkins
Miss Alabama 1970 – Suzanne Dennie
Miss Alabama 1969 – Ann Fowler
Miss Alabama 1968 – Dellynne Catching
Miss Alabama 1967 – Becky Alford
Miss Alabama 1966 – Angie Grooms
Miss Alabama 1965 –Linda Folsom
Miss Alabama 1964 – Vickie Powers
Miss Alabama 1963 – Judy Short
Miss Alabama 1962 – Patricia Bonner
Miss Alabama 1961 – Delores Hodgens
Miss Alabama 1960 – Teresa Rinaldi
Miss Alabama 1959 – Betty Lindstrom
Miss Alabama 1958 – Lee Thornberry
Miss Alabama 1957 – Anna Stange
Miss Alabama 1956 – Anne Stuart Ariail
Miss Alabama 1955 – Patricia Huddleston
Miss Alabama 1954 – Marilyn Tate
Miss Alabama 1953 – Virginia McDavid
Miss Alabama 1952 – Gwen Harmon
Miss Alabama 1951 – Jeanne Moody
Miss Alabama 1950 – Bettye Burson (Assumed title)
Miss Alabama 1950 – Yolande Betbeze (Miss America 1951)
Miss Alabama 1949 – Freida Roser
Miss Alabama 1948 – Marjorie Orr
Miss Alabama 1948 – Martha Ann Ingram
Miss Alabama 1947 – Peggy Elder
Miss Alabama 1946 – Dale Nunnally
Miss Alabama 1946 – Sue Donegan
Miss Alabama 1945 – Frances Dorn
Miss Alabama 1944 – Betty Jane Rase
Miss Alabama 1943 – Toula Hagestratou
Miss Alabama 1942 – Marie Duncan
Miss Alabama 1941 – Virginia McGraw
Miss Alabama 1940 – Evelyn Motlow
Miss Alabama 1940 – Carolyn Foreman (Miss Montgomery)
Miss Alabama 1939 – Florine Holt
Miss Alabama 1939 – Louise Robertson (Miss Montgomery)
Miss Alabama 1938 – Mildred Oxford
Miss Alabama 1938 – Patricia McDaniel (Miss Montgomery)
Miss Alabama 1937 – Josephine Beall
Miss Alabama 1937 – Ingram Starkey (Miss Montgomery)
Miss Alabama 1936 – Tommy Marie Peck
Miss Alabama 1936 – Gloria Levinge
Miss Alabama 1935 – Adelynn Owen
Miss Alabama 1934 – No national pageant was held
Miss Alabama 1933 – No representative at Miss America
Miss Alabama 1932 – No national pageant was held
Miss Alabama 1931 – No national pageant was held
Miss Alabama 1930 – No national pageant was held
Miss Alabama 1929 – No national pageant was held
Miss Alabama 1928 – No national pageant was held
Miss Alabama 1927 – No representative at Miss America
Miss Alabama 1926 – Vivian McDowell (Miss Mobile)
Miss Alabama 1925 – Nellie Kincaid
Miss Alabama 1924 – Mildred Adams
Miss Alabama 1923 – Louise Newman
Miss Alabama 1922 – Elise Sparrow
Miss Alabama 1921 – Lois Wilson

Note: This list shows all known titleholders who have represented Alabama at Miss America. In 1936, 1946, and 1948, two winners were crowned in Miss Alabama/Birmingham and both competed at Miss America. The titles of Miss Birmingham and Miss Alabama were both owned and administered by The Birmingham News and the primary title changed permanently to Miss Alabama after 1946. The title of Miss Montgomery was initially a stand-alone competition whose winner competed at Miss America from 1937 to 1940. Miss Montgomery later competed as a local titleholder in Miss Alabama. The title of Miss Mobile was also initially a stand-alone competition whose winner competed at Miss America in 1926. Miss Mobile later competed as a local titleholder in Miss Alabama. The current system in use, which allows only the winners of local competitions to compete in Miss Alabama with no at-large candidates in the state competition, has been in place since about 1971.