Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age | Local Title | Miss America Talent | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Nichole Mead | Newport | 24 | Miss Three Rivers | Lyrical Dance "What's Love Got To Do With It" | Successor to Crown; Competitor at National Sweetheart 2011 | ||
| Rachel Berry | Indiana | 24 | Miss Willamette Valley | Tap Dance | Formerly competed in California Resigned July 19, 2012 due to residency ineligibility |
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| 2011 | Caroline McGowan | Waukee, Iowa | 20 | Miss Linn-Benton County | Operatic Vocal "Chanson Boheme" from Carmen | became Miss Oregon as a student at Oregon State University | ||
| 2010 | Stephenie Steers | Hillsboro | 24 | Miss Multnomah | Vocal "Something to Talk About" | Top 15 | Voted into the Top 15 as one of two "Contestants' Choice" Finalists selected by the contestants | |
| 2009 | CC Barber | Scappoose | 23 | Miss Tri Valley | Dance "Bleeding Love" | Top 15 semi-finalist | Preliminary Swimsuit award | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2006; Voted into the Top 15 by her fellow contestants |
| 2008 | Danijela Krstic | Beaverton | 24 | Miss Tri Valley | Belly Dancing | |||
| 2007 | Kari Virding | Portland | 24 | Miss Portland | Vocal "The Girl in 14G" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Previously Miss Oregon Teen USA 2000 | |
| 2006 | Donilee McGinnis | Scappoose | 24 | Miss Willamette Valley | Tap Dance "I Gotcha" | |||
| 2005 | Lucy Fleck | Portland | 20 | Miss Portland | Tap Dance "Turn the Beat Around" | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2003 | ||
| 2004 | Brook Roberts | Roseburg | 21 | Miss Douglas County | Vocal "All That Jazz" | The Amazing Race 17 Contestant | ||
| 2003 | April Robinson | Gresham | 22 | Miss Multnomah County | A capella Tap Dance | Non-Finalist Interview Award | ||
| 2002 | Brita Stream | Eugene | 22 | Miss Linn-Benton | Vocal "As If We Never Said Goodbye" from Sunset Boulevard | |||
| 2001 | Heidi Rickey | Miss Yamhill County | Vocal | Successor to crown | ||||
| Katie Harman | Gresham | 21 | Miss Portland | Classical Vocal "O mio babbino caro" | Winner – Miss America 2002 | Preliminary Talent Award | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2000 | |
| 2000 | Angela Day Brink | Roseburg | 22 | Miss Douglas County | Ballet "Angel" | |||
| 1999 | Angela Reed | Portland | 23 | Miss Tri-Valley | Vocal "You Don't Know Me" | Tiffany Phillips Memorial Scholar Athlete Award | Top 10 at National Sweetheart 1997 & 1998 | |
| 1998 | Jennifer Sisco-Moore | Eugene | 23 | Miss Tri-Valley | Classical Vocal "Una Voce Poco Fa" from The Barber of Seville | Tiffany Phillips Memorial Scholar Athlete, State Community Service Award | ||
| 1997 | Tamara Ann Finch | Myrtle Creek | 24 | Miss Douglas County | Classical Piano "Scherzo No. 2 in B Flat Minor" | Semi-Finalist | Steinway Talent Winner | |
| 1996 | Patricia Regan Leines | Medford | 24 | Miss Tri-Valley | Classical Vocal "Chacun le Sait" from The Daughter of the Regiment | Second Runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award, Preliminary Talent Award | |
| 1995 | Emily John Orton | Creswell | 19 | Miss Linn-Benton | Classical Vocal "Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante" from Carmen | First Runner-up | ||
| 1994 | Roberta Stenbeck | Roseburg | 23 | Miss Douglas County | Piano | |||
| 1993 | Elizabeth Simmons | Bandon | 23 | Miss Tri-Valley | Vocal "Someone Else's Story" from Chess | Third Runner-up | Previously winner of the National Sweetheart Pageant in 1992 | |
| 1992 | Sara Kristi Paulson | Portland | 21 | Miss Washington County | Vocal "The Star-Spangled Banner" | |||
| 1991 | Carolyn Helen Ladd | Corvallis | 24 | Miss Linn-Benton | Vocal "I Must Be a Star" | |||
| 1990 | Brittney Gae Thompson | Portland | 20 | Miss Tri-Valley | Vocal "Break It to Me Gently" | |||
| 1989 | Lynette Boggs | Portland | 25 | Miss Portland | Vocal "I Am Changing" | State Quality of Life Award | Served on the Board of Directors for the Miss America Pageant; Served on Las Vegas City Council and Clark County Commission | |
| 1988 | Anna Denise Jones | Portland | 24 | Miss Tri-Valley | Vocal "Crazy" | |||
| 1987 | Tamara Fazzolari | Portland | 21 | Miss Hillsboro | Tap Dance | |||
| 1986 | Jana Svea Peterson | Newport | 22 | Miss Linn-Benton | Vocal Medley | Toured with the 1987 Gillette Miss America Show Troupe | ||
| 1985 | Dana Kocks | Ashland | 21 | Miss Rogue Valley | Classical Vocal "Seguidilla" from Carmen | |||
| 1984 | Renee Bagley | Portland | 22 | Miss Willamette Valley | Popular Vocal "Don't Cry Out Loud" | |||
| 1983 | Stephanie "Jill" Wymer | Sutherlin | 22 | Miss Douglas County | Popular Vocal "Out Here On My Own" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1982 | Laura Matthys | Salem | 21 | Miss Linn-Benton | Rifle Twirling Routine "Herzegovinian March" | |||
| 1981 | Julie Ross | Portland | 20 | Miss Portland | Classical Piano "Prokofiev's Toccata" | Semi-Finalist | ||
| 1980 | Teresa Richardson | Forest Grove | 20 | Miss Multnomath County | Vocal "I Could Have Danced All Night" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1979 | Tami Sanders | Roseburg | 21 | Miss Douglas County | Gymnastic Dance "A Fifth of Beethoven" | |||
| 1978 | Amy White | Portland | 20 | Miss Portland | Musical Comedy Free Style Dance "Overture from Gypsy" | |||
| 1977 | Suzanne Bunker | Forest Grove | 21 | Miss Portland | Classical Flute "Fantasie for Flute" | Semi-Finalist | ||
| 1976 | Shan Moss | Nyssa | 21 | Miss Malheur County | Flute Solo "Concertino" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1975 | Betty Hupfer | Milwaukie | 21 | Miss Gresham | Dancing "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" | |||
| 1974 | Juli Ann Berg | Eugene | 21 | Miss Lane County | Vocal "Corner of the Sky" from Pippin | daughter of Miss Oregon 1947, Previously Oregon's Junior Miss in 1974 | ||
| 1973 | Nancy Jean Jackson | Nyssa | 20 | Miss Rogue Valley | Dramatic Interpretation from The Taming of the Shrew | |||
| 1972 | Sandra Lynn Herring | Portland | 20 | Miss Portland | Vocal Medley "Who Will Buy?" & "As Long as He Needs Me" from Oliver! | Non-finalist Talent Award | Performed with Miss America USO Troupe | |
| 1971 | Lynn Dee Grenz | Milwaukie | 20 | Miss Linn County | Vocal "Hurry! It's Lovely Up Here" from On a Clear Day You Can See Forever | Non-finalist Talent Award (Most Talented Popular Singer) | Former Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives and past House Majority Leader, judged the Miss America Pageant in 1999 | |
| 1970 | Cynthia Lynn Harrison | Portland | 18 | Miss Rogue Valley | Vocal & Guitar "Just Once" | |||
| 1969 | Margie Elaine Huhta | Astoria | 20 | Miss Knappa-Svensen | Vocal Medley "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" & "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" | USO Tour | ||
| 1968 | Marjean Kay Langley | Milton-Freewater | 19 | Miss Pendleton | Classical Ballet "The Dying Swan" | Third Runner-up | ||
| 1967 | Christine Beach | Pendleton | 18 | Miss Pendleton | Vocal "Just You Wait" from My Fair Lady | |||
| 1966 | Lita Schiel | Lake Oswego | 21 | Miss Lake Oswego | Original Skit | |||
| 1965 | Sue Pack | Eugene | 18 | Miss Eugene | Vocal "The Lonely Goatherd" | Semi-Finalist | Joined The New Christy Minstrels in 1966 and married Mickey Newbury in 1969. | |
| 1964 | Carol Pedersen | Newport | 18 | Miss Lincoln County | Dramatic Reading | |||
| 1963 | D’Ann Fullerton | Roseburg | Miss Roseburg | Original Novelty Dance & Hula Baton | ||||
| 1962 | Martha Wyatt | Jacksonville | 19 | Miss Rogue Valley | Interpretive Jazz Dance "Love Walked In" | Semi-Finalist | ||
| 1961 | Jody Bourne | Salem | 20 | Miss Salem | Interpretive Ballet | |||
| 1960 | Rosemary Doolen | Salem | 19 | Miss Salem | Vocal "A Heart That's Free" | Non-finalist Talent Award (Most Talented Singer) | ||
| 1959 | Karlyn Mattsson | Portland | 18 | Miss Portland | Piano & Dance | |||
| 1958 | Mary Ellen Vinton | McMinnville | Miss McMinnville | Piano & Tap Dance "I Won't Dance" | 1st runner-up in the 1963 Miss Wool of America Pageant | |||
| 1957 | Judith Hansen | Astoria | Miss Astoria | Classical Vocal "Mi Chiamano Mimi" from La bohème | Semi-Finalist | Preliminary Talent Award | ||
| 1956 | Patricia Berg | Eugene | Miss Eugene | Vibraharp "Indian Love Call" | ||||
| 1955 | Dorothy Mae Johnson | Portland | Miss Beaverton | Dramatic Monologue from Macbeth | First Runner-up | |||
| 1954 | Diane Carman | Milwaukie | Miss Oak Grove | Drama "This Is America" | ||||
| 1953 | Patti Throop | Portland | Miss Portland | Dramatic Reading "Patterns" | Semi-Finalist | |||
| 1952 | Mary Lou Teague | Eugene | Miss Eugene | Vocal "Love Is Where You Find It" | ||||
| 1951 | Audrey Mistretta | Astoria | Miss Tongue Point | Vocal | ||||
| 1950 | Elizabeth Ann Baker | Monmouth | Miss McMinnville | |||||
| 1949 | Beverly Kruger | The Dalles | Miss The Dalles | Piano "Clair de Lune" | ||||
| 1948 | Joyce Davis | Bend | Miss Redmond | Classical Vocal "Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix" | Semi-Finalist | |||
| 1947 | Jo Ann Amorde | Sutherlin | Miss Roseburg | Vocal "Alice Blue Gown" from Irene | Semi-Finalist | |||
| 1926 | No Miss Oregon | Maxine Jennings competed as Miss Portland in the Miss America Pageant | ||||||
| 1923 | No Miss Oregon | Patricia Smith competed as Miss Portland in the Miss America Pageant | ||||||
| 1922 | No Miss Oregon | Virginia Edwards competed as Miss Portland in the Miss America Pageant |
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