Miss Texas

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This article is about the state pageant to select a Texas delegate to the Miss America pageant. For the Miss USA state pageant, see Miss Texas USA

Molly Hazlett, Miss Texas 2007, in a parade

The Miss Texas competition was founded in 1936 as a scholarship contest for young women. The winner represents Texas in the Miss America pageant; three winners have gone on to be crowned Miss America (but none since 1975).

Almost all contestants have either received or are in the process of earning college or postgraduate degrees and utilize Miss Texas scholarship awards for furthering their education. Hundreds of young women participate each year in the local pageants, culminating in the selection of local finalists who vie for the Miss Texas title in Fort Worth each July.

To become Miss Texas, a contestant must first win a local competition, a process requiring personal commitment, hard work and talent. A young woman may compete at the local and state level more than once, but may only compete in the national Miss America competition one time. Hundreds of women participate each year in the local pageants, culminating in the selection of local finalists who compete for the Miss Texas title in Fort Worth in July.

Once chosen, Miss Texas and the local winners become representatives of their generation, using their stature to address community service matters and other contemporary issues, which are of particular relevance to young Texans and women.

1 Winners
2 In Popular Culture
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Winners

Year	Name	Hometown	Local Title	Placement at Miss America	Special scholarships at Miss America	Notes
2007	Molly Hazlett	Centerville	Miss Longview	Top 8 Finalist	Preliminary Swimsuit
2006	Shilah Phillips	Plano	Miss Frisco	1st runner up at Miss America 2007	Preliminary Talent Award	first African-American to win Miss Texas
2005	Morgan Matlock	Lamesa	Miss Fort Worth	Top 10 Semi-finalist
2004	Jamie Story	Bedford	Miss Arlington	Top 10 Semi-finalist
2003	Sunni Cranfill	Hooks	Miss Amarillo Area		Non-finalist Talent Award
2002	Lisa (Dalzell) Spooner	Magnolia	Miss Lake O' The Pines	Top 10 Semi-finalist	Preliminary Interview Award	Main Anchor at CBS affiliate in Tyler, TX http://www.cbs19.tv/anchor-lisa.php
2001	Stacy James	Texarkana	Miss Lake O' The Pines	Top 20 Quarter-finalist
2000	Tara Watson	Lufkin	Miss Hurst-Euless-Bedford	Top 10 Semi-finalist
1999	Yanci (Yarborough) McGregor	Childress	Miss Hurst-Euless-Bedford	4th runner-up
1998	Tatum Hubbard	Odessa	Miss Arlington			Main anchor at CBS affiliate in Midland-Odessa (KOSA-TV)
1997	Reagan (Hughes) Harper	Midland	Miss Lake O' The Pines
1996	Michelle (Martinez) Metzger	Dallas	Miss Dallas	Top 10 Semi-finalist
1995	Carly (Jarmon) Gil	Mesquite	Miss Oak Cliff
1994	Arian Archer	Borger	Miss Amarillo Area	Top 10 Semi-finalist
1993	BaShara Chandler	Garland	Miss Northeast Texas		Non-finalist Interview Award
1992	Amy Parker	Carrollton	Miss Tarrant County
1991	Rhonda (Morrison) Formby	Coldspring	Miss Lake O' The Pines	Top 10 Semi-finalist
1990	Suzanne (Lawrence) Forsberg	Humble	Miss Humble/Kingwood	3rd runner-up	Preliminary Talent Award, Quality of Life Award
1989	Leah Kay Lyle	Plainview	Miss Haltom-Richland Area	Top 10 Semi-finalist
1988	Cathy Castro	McAllen	Miss Duncanville
1987	Jo Thompson	Lufkin	Miss Greenville	Top 10 Semi-finalist
1986	Stephany Samone	Dallas	Miss Grand Prairie	Top 10 Semi-finalist	Preliminary Talent Award	Toured with the 1987 Gillette Miss America Show Troupe
1985	Jonna Fitzgerald	Greenville	Miss Greenville	2nd runner-up	Preliminary Talent Award	Toured with 1986 Miss America Gillette Show Troupe
1984	Tamara Hext	Fort Worth	Miss Arlington	4th runner-up	Preliminary Swimsuit Award
1983	Dana Rogers	Boerne	Miss San Antonio	Top 10 Semi-finalist		Featured performer at the 1985 Miss America Pageant
1982	Gloria Gilbert	Millsap	Miss Palo Pinto County		Non-finalist Talent Award	Previously winner of the 1981 National Sweetheart Pageant, longtime hostess of the Miss Texas Pageant television broadcast, toured with 1986 Miss America Gillette Show Troupe
1981	Sheri Ryman	Texas City	Miss Texas A&M	4th runner-up	Preliminary Talent Award	Toured with Miss America USO Troupe
1980	Terri Eoff	Lubbock	Miss Lubbock	Top 10 Semi-finalist		actress, appeared on soap opera Search for Tomorrow
1979	Lex Ann Haughey	Hurst	Miss Haltom-Richland Area
1978	Sandi (Miller) Gray-Zeller	Mesquite	Miss Red Bird Area	Top 10 Semi-finalist
1977	Lori Smith	Fort Worth	Miss Haltom-Richland Area	Top 10 Semi-finalist		Toured with Miss America USO Troupe
1976	Carmen McCollum	Odessa	Miss West Texas	2nd runner-up	Preliminary Talent Award, Preliminary Swimsuit Award
1975	Mary Ellen Richardson	Waco	Miss Waco	Top 10 Semi-finalist
1974	Phyllis Barger		Miss Houston			Successor to crown
1974	Shirley Cothran	Fort Worth	Miss Haltom-Richland Area	Winner	Preliminary Swimsuit Award
1973	Judy Mallett	Haltom City	Miss Haltom-Richland Area	Top 10 Semi-finalist		Toured with Miss America USO Troupe
1972	Mae Beth Cormany	Wichita Falls	Miss Hurst-Euless-Bedford	3rd runner-up		Toured with Miss America USO Troupe
1971	Janice (Bain) Cord	San Antonio	Miss White Settlement
1970	Bellinda Myrick					Successor to crown, Toured with Miss America USO Troupe
1970	Phyllis George	Denton	Miss Dallas	Winner	Preliminary Swimsuit Award	One of the first women sportscasters on network television as co-host of NFL Today on CBS
1969	Dana Dowell	White Oak	Miss Longview
1968	Diane Hugghins	Tyler	Miss Nacogdoches
1968	Glenda Propes		Miss Rusk County
1967	Molly Grubb	Fort Worth	Miss Fort Worth			Featured dancer in the 1968 Miss America Pageant
1966	Susan Logan	San Angelo	Miss Lubbock	Top 10 Semi-finalist
1965	Mary Lou Butler	Irving	Miss Nacogdoches
1964	Sharon McCauley	Athens	Miss Athens	2nd runner-up
1964	Lenda Varley		Miss Fort Worth
1963	Jeanne Amacker	Beaumont	Miss Austin
1962	Penny Lee Rudd	Waskom	Miss Marshall	2nd runner-up		Featured performer in the 1963 Miss America Pageant telecast
1961	Linda Loftis	Fort Worth	Miss Fort Worth	3rd runner-up	Preliminary Talent Award	Featured performer in the 1962 Miss America Pageant
1960	Mary Cage Moore	Laredo	Miss Dallas	Non-finalist Talent Award
1959	Marilyn Turner	Fort Worth	Miss Fort Worth		Non-finalist Talent Award	was chosen from among the non-finalist talent winners to perform her talent on the television broadcast
1958	Mary Nell Hendricks	Arlington	Miss Arlington	Top 10 Semi-finalist
1957	Carolyn Calvert	Austin	Miss Austin
1956	Barbara Murry	Houston	Miss Houston
1955	June (Prichard) Williams	Seymour	Miss West Texas
1954	Yvonne Erwin	Dallas	Miss Dallas
1953	Paula Lane	Cleburne	Miss Cleburne
1952	Connie Hopping	Littlefield	Miss Littlefield
1951	Glenda Holcomb	Odessa	Miss West Texas
1950	Margaret Sommers	Dallas	Miss Dallas	Semi-finalist
1949	Ysleta Leissner	Fort Worth	Miss Fort Worth
1948	Bonnie Jean Bland	Orange	Miss Orange
1947	Luna McClain	Lufkin	Miss Lufkin		Miss Congeniality
1946	D. Anne Wisener	University Park	Miss University Park
1945	Polly Below	Galveston	Miss Galveston	Semi-finalist
1944	Joyce Courrege	Orange	Miss Orange		Miss Congeniality
1942	Jo-Carroll Dennison	Tyler	Miss Tyler	Winner	Preliminary Talent Award, Preliminary Swimsuit Award
1940/41	Gloria Ann Byrns Evans	Port Arthur	Miss Port Arthur
1939	Charmayne Smith	Dallas	Miss Dallas	Semi-finalist
1937	Alice Emerick	Fort Worth	Miss Fort Worth	1st runner-up
1936	Patricia Allen Green	Corpus Christi	Miss Corpus Christi	Semi-finalist		*Competed at Miss America as Miss Corpus Christi

[edit] In Popular Culture

In the long-running television show Dallas, the character Sue Ellen Ewing had purportedly won the title of Miss Texas in 1967, long before the events of the show took place (1978-91). She had entered the pageant as Miss Dallas.^[1]