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Miss Alabama

Miss Alabama

Beauty pageant competition

For the state pageant affiliated with Miss USA, see Miss Alabama USA.

The Miss Alabama competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Alabama in the annual Miss America Competition.

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Alabama has won three Miss America titles: Deidre Downs in 2005, Heather Whitestone (the first deaf woman to win the Miss America crown) in 1995, and Yolande Betbeze in 1951. Betbeze is also known as the contestant who refused to pose in a swimsuit, causing swimsuit sponsor Catalina Swimwear to pull out and ultimately start the Miss USA pageant.[citation needed]

Brianna Burrell of Mobile was crowned Miss Alabama 2023 on July 1, 2023 at Samford University's Wright Center in Birmingham, Alabama. She competed for the title of Miss America 2024 at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando, Florida in January 2024 where she was a Preliminary Evening Gown Award winner.

Results summary

The following is a visual summary of the past results of Miss Alabama titleholders at the national Miss America pageants/competitions. The year in parentheses indicates the year of the national competition during which a placement and/or award was garnered, not the year attached to the contestant's state title.

Placements

  • Miss Americas: Yolande Betbeze (1951), Heather Whitestone (1995), Deidre Downs (2005)
  • 1st runners-up: Teresa Cheatham (1979), Paige Phillips (1981), Scarlotte Deupree (2003), Lauren Bradford (2022)
  • 2nd runners-up: Frances Dorn (1945), Martha Ann Ingram (1948), Anne Stuart Ariail (1957), Pam Battles (1984), Alexa Jones (2006)
  • 3rd runners-up: Peggy June Elder (1947), Gwen Harmon (1953), Virginia McDavid (1954), Yolanda Fernandez (1983), Alison McCreary (1997)
  • 4th runners-up: Gloria Levinge (1936), Betty Jane Rase (1944), Angela Tower (1986), Jenny Jackson (1989), Melinda Toole (2007), Meg McGuffin (2016)
  • Top 7: Jessica Procter (2018), Tiara Pennington (2020)
  • Top 10: Marie Duncan (1942), Jeanne Moody (1952), Marilyn Tate (1955), Patricia Huddleston (1956), Lee Thornberry (1959), Teresa Rinaldi (1961), Delores Hodgens (1962), Judy Short (1964), Vickie Powers (1965), Linda Folsom (1966), Angie Grooms (1967), Dellynne Catching (1969), Angela Callahan (1987), Kalyn Chapman (1994), Leigh Sherer (1996), Julie Smith (2000), Jana Sanderson (2001), Caitlin Brunell (2015), Callie Walker (2019)
  • Top 12: Anna Laura Bryan (2013)
  • Top 13: Courtney Porter (2012)
  • Top 15: Tommy Marie Peck (1936), Mildred Oxford (1938), Florine Holt (1939), Virginia McGraw (1941), Catherine Crosby (2004), Amanda Tapley (2009)

Awards

Preliminary awards

Non-finalist awards

  • Non-finalist Talent: Anna Stange (1958), Betty Lindstrom (1960), Patricia Bonner (1963), Kathy Pickett (1980), Tammy Little (1985), Chandler Champion (2014)
  • Non-finalist Interview: Resha Riggins (1991)

Other awards

Winners

  •   Declared as winner
  •   Ended as a runner-up
  •   Ended as a finalist or semi-finalist
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Notes

  1. Titleholder extended to a second year in 2020 after state and national pageants postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic[4][5]

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