- Miss Louisiana
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For the state pageant affiliated with Miss USA, see Miss Louisiana USA.
Blair Abene, Miss Louisiana 2008 (second from right) with local titleholders, 2009; Hope Anderson, at left, was to become Miss Louisiana 2011.
The Miss Louisiana competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Louisiana in the Miss America pageant. For many years Miss New Orleans was the state's representative.
Although no delegate from this state has ever won the Miss America title, four have placed first runner-up
Winners
Year Name Hometown Age Local Title Miss America Talent Placement at Miss America Special scholarships at Miss America Notes 2011 Hope Anderson[1] Monroe 22 Miss Spirit of Ruston Dance Contestant at National Sweetheart 2009 2010 Kelsi Crain Monroe 20 Miss University of Louisiana at Monroe Ballet en Pointe "Victory" 2009 Katherine Putnam Oak Grove 23 Miss Shreveport Piano "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's Messiah 3rd runner-up at Miss America 2010 CMN Miracle Maker Award winner 2008 Blair Abene Hammond 22 Miss Lincoln Parish Classical Vocal "Nessun dorma" Top 10 at National Sweetheart 2006 2007 Amanda Joseph Pineville 21 Miss Bossier City Ballet en Pointe "Canned Heat" 2006 Jamie Wilson Minden 23 Miss Louisiana Watermelon Festival Vocal "Like We Never Loved at All" Contestant at National Sweetheart 2005 2005 Molly Causey Ruston 22 Miss Shreveport Piano "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" 4th runner-up (2002) & Contestant (2004) at National Sweetheart 2004 Jennifer Dupont Plaquemine 23 Miss Ouachita Parish Jazz Dance "The Life of the Party" from The Wild Party 1st runner-up at Miss America 2005 Preliminary Swimsuit Previously Miss Louisiana Teen USA 1998, Miss Louisiana USA 2000 2003 Melissa Clark Ruston 23 Miss Louisiana Tech University Vocal "The Prayer" Contestant (2000) & Winner (2001) at National Sweetheart 2002 Casey Crowder Shreveport 23 Miss Ark-La-Miss Fair Vocal Medley "This Can't Be Love" & "Almost Like Being in Love" 2001 Kati Guyton Bossier City 23 Miss Louisiana Watermelon Festival Vocal "Your Daddy's Son" from Ragtime 2000 Faith Jenkins Shreveport 24 Miss Louisiana Lagniappe Vocal "If I Could" 1st runner-up at Miss America 2001 Preliminary Talent Award, Preliminary Swimsuit Award, Quality of Life Award Won the most scholarship money in the history of Miss America Pageant to date. 1999 Julie Lawrence Destrehan 22 Miss Louisiana Stock Show Ballet en Pointe "I, Don Quixote" from Man of La Mancha Preliminary Talent Award, Non-finalist Talent Award, Miss America Scholar Competed in the 1998 National Sweetheart Pageant 1998 Heather Dupree Baton Rouge 21 Miss Louisiana Lagniappe Ventriloquism "Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)" Previously Miss Louisiana Teen USA 1993 1997 Mette Boving Ruston 24 Miss Holiday in Dixie Popular Vocal "How Do I Live" Top 10 Semi-finalist 1996 Erika Schwarz Folsom 24 Miss St. Tammany Parrish Original Piano Composition "New Orleans Rhapsody" 1st runner-up 2nd runner-up Quality of Life Award Entertainment lawyer, judged the Miss America Pageant in 2006, was the "pageant coach" on the 2007 Miss America Pageant School special. 1995 Karmyn Tyler Shreveport 20 Miss City of Roses Classical Vocal "Tu che di gel sei cinta" Non-finalist Talent Award represented Arkansas in Miss Oktoberfest 1997, did not place 1994 Tiffany Mock Bossier City 23 Miss Shreveport Vocal "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart" 1993 Catherine Teague Shreveport 20 Miss Natchitoches City of Lights Vocal "Listen To My Heart" 1992 Elizabeth Haynes Baton Rouge 24 Miss Caddo Lake Piano Medley "El Cumbanchero" & "Cumana" 1991 Christi Page Ruston 21 Miss Caney Lake Piano / Vocal "Great Balls of Fire" Top 10 Semi-finalist Preliminary Swimsuit Award 1990 Linnea Fayard Shreveport 22 Miss Louisiana Super Derby Festival Vocal "Stormy Weather" 4th runner-up at Miss America 1991 1989 Stacy King Slidell 23 Miss Louisiana Deep South Banjo Medley "Dueling Banjos" & "Ghost Riders" Prelminary Swimsuit Award, Non-finalist Talent Award 1988 Valerie Brosset West Monroe 21 Miss Louisiana Stockshow Contemporary Ballet "Singin' in the Rain" Top 10 Semi-finalist at Miss America 1989 Preliminary Swimsuit Award 1987 Patricia Brant Monroe 23 Miss Red River Valley Ventriloquism "Arizona Yodeler" & "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" 1st runner-up at Miss America 1988 Preliminary Talent Award 1986 Amanda Mainord Baton Rouge 20 Miss Louisiana State University Vocal "When You Wish upon a Star" Non-finalist Talent Award Toured with the 1987 Gillette Miss America Show Troupe 1985 Carol Carter Shreveport 20 Miss Louisiana State University Vocal "Corner of the Sky" from Pippin Later Miss Louisiana USA 1987 & toured with USO troupe 1984 Nita Whitaker Shreveport 24 Miss Louisiana Forest Festival Popular Vocal "Over the Rainbow" 1983 Miriam Gauthier Shreveport 19 Miss Bossier City Piano "Toccata" by Antonio Tauriello Non-finalist Talent Award 1982 Bobbie Candler Baton Rouge 25 Miss Baton Rouge Semi-Classical Vocal "With a Song in My Heart" Non-finalist Talent Award Former National Sweetheart Pageant winner 1979 1981 Donese Worden Monroe 22 Miss Northeast Louisiana University Violin Solo "Millionaire's Hoe-Down" 1980 Martha "Missy" Crews Baton Rouge 22 Miss Baton Rouge Ballet en Pointe "Jet Song" from West Side Story Toured with Miss America USO Troupe 1979 Myrrah McCully Monroe 24 Miss North Louisiana Paperland Piano "Khachaturian's Piano Concerto" Non-finalist Talent Award 1978 Phyllis Kelly Baton Rouge 20 Miss Southeastern Louisiana University Classical Vocal "Italian Street Song" Top 10 Semi-finalist at Miss America 1979 1977 Donna Holt Tioga 21 Miss Plain Dealing Dogwood Semi-Classical Vocal "My Tribute" 1976 Candy Sue Crocker Hammond 22 Miss Plain Dealing Dogwood Vocal / Tap Dance "Swanee" 1975 Becky Wilson Bossier City 23 Miss Louisiana Watermelon Festival Vocal "Corner of the Sky" from Pippin 1974 Libby Lovejoy Sulphur 21 Miss Lake Charles Classical Ballet en Pointe "The Grenadiers" 4th runner-up 1973 Debbie Ward Baton Rouge 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 pageant 1974-1977 1972 Debby Robert Baton Rouge 21 Miss Baton Rouge Classical Vocal "The Art of Beguiling" Top 10 Semi-finalist Preliminary Talent Award 1971 Avis Cochran Shreveport 19 Miss Shreveport Acrobatic Dance "Theme from Exodus" toured with Miss America USO Troupe 1970 Carol Almand Haynesville 18 Miss Homer Vocal "The Wedding" 1969 Sharon Branaman New Iberia 19 Miss Lafayette Classical Vocal "Olympia's Aria" from The Tales of Hoffmann 1968 Susanne Saunders Shreveport 18 Miss Northeast Louisiana State College Popular Vocal "I Can See It" 1967 Genevieve Del Gallo New Orleans 21 Miss New Orleans Classical Vocal "Un Bel Di" from Madama Butterfly Top 10 Semi-finalist 1966 Joy Woods New Orleans 20 Miss Northeast Louisiana State College Oboe Solo / Dance 1965 Lynda Ferguson Shreveport 20 Miss Shreveport Semi-Classical Vocal "Italian Street Song" Top 10 Semi-finalist 1964 Cherie Martin Pineville 19 Miss Rapides Parrish Toreador Dance & Baton Twirling Non-finalist Talent Award 1963 Linda Gail Baucum Springhill Miss Springhill Modern Jazz - South American Rock-Umba Dance When the original winner, Judy Cathey, was announced she stepped up to the microphone and resigned the title on the spot so she could get married and Linda was named the new winner 1962 Diana Jane Smith Oak Ridge 21 Miss Bastrop Organ Medley "Lady of Spain" & "Sabre Dance" 1961 Lyndra Frances Pate Shreveport 20 Miss Bastrop Vocal "The House I Live In" 1960 Judith Ann Coday Baton Rouge 20 Miss Baton Rouge Vocal Medley 1959 Mary Mills Hawkins Lake Providence 22 Miss Baton Rouge Piano 1958 Alberta Louise Futch Hammond Miss Tangipahoa Parish Fire Baton Twirling 1957 Beverly Leigh Norman Shreveport Miss Caddo Parish Vocal Competed in the 1958 Miss Dixie Pageant 1956 Bobbie Chachere Baton Rouge Miss Baton Rouge Dance Non-finalist Talent Award Competed in the 1957 Miss Dixie Pageant 1955 Jan Aline Johnston Ruston Miss Ruston Drama 1954 Gail Gleason Shreveport Miss Louisiana Polytechnic Institute Piano & Art 1953 Sonya Lee LeBlanc Baton Rouge Miss Baton Rouge Dance 1952 Barbara Barker Monroe Drama "The Fog" Top 10 Semi-finalist 1951 Jeanne Thompson Baton Rouge Dance Future Miss Louisiana USA 1952-1953 1950 Rowena Taliaferro Winnsboro 1949 Annie Hollingsworth Baton Rouge 1947 Ruth Mary Blust New Orleans Vocal "This Song Is You" 1946 Marguerite McClelland Baton Rouge Classical Vocal "Voices of Spring" 3rd runner-up Joyce Josephine Frink* New Orleans 1945 Helene Shively* New Orleans 1944 Wilhelmina Hoffman* New Orleans 1943 Shirley Catherine Lange* New Orleans 1942 Edna Joyce* New Orleans 1941 Helen Yvonne Englert* New Orleans 1940 Pauline Powell* New Orleans 1939 Frances Helen Anello* New Orleans 1938 Irene Blush Schomberger* New Orleans Vocal / Trumpet / Dance 1937 Gussie Short Winnsboro Gertrude Rissie Miller* New Orleans Top 15 Semi-finalist 1936 Doris Huet* New Orleans 1933 Marjorie Hagler 17 Top 10 Semi-finalist 1927 Gladys Renya Moore* 1926 Edna du Vernay* 1925 Thelma Roeling* 1924 Louise Moore* Top 10 Semi-finalist There was also a Miss Algiers who competed in the pageant but whose name is not known 1923 * 1922 Maud Allison Price* * Competed in Miss America pageant as Miss New Orleans
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