Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age | Local Title | Miss America Talent | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Sloane Roberts | Rison | 19 | Miss Heart of the Ozarks | Tap Dance | Previously Miss Arkansas' Outstanding Teen 2008 | ||
| 2011 | Kristen Glover | Stuttgart | 22 | Miss Ouachita Baptist University | Tap Dance "Piano Sonata No. 11" | Quality of Life Award Finalist | ||
| 2010 | Alyse Eady | Fort Smith | 22 | Miss South Central Arkansas | Ventriloquism / Vocal "I Want to be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" | 1st runner-up | Previously Miss Teen Arkansas-America 2004 (now known as Miss Arkansas' Outstanding Teen) | |
| 2009 | Sarah Slocum | Sheridan | 23 | Miss Ouachita River | Vocal "The Prayer" | Top 15 Semi-finalist | Was voted into the Top 15 as a "People's Choice" winner, voted on by the public | |
| 2008 | Ashlen Batson | Newark | 21 | Miss Spirit of Arkansas | Flute Solo "Carmen Medley" | Top 12 Semi-finalist | ||
| 2007 | Katie Bailey | Conway | 25 | Miss South Arkansas | Vocal "Feeling Good" | Top 16 Semi-finalist | ||
| 2006 | Amber Bennett | Carlisle | 23 | Miss Central Arkansas | Vocal "Come Rain or Come Shine" | Won Miss America "Pageant School" competition | ||
| 2005 | Eudora Mosby | Hazen | 23 | Miss Central Arkansas | Vocal "Dream In Color" | Top 10 | ||
| 2004 | Lacy Fleming | Hampton | 22 | Miss Ouachita Baptist University | Vocal "Last Dance" | 3rd runner-up | Former Arkansas Junior Miss 2000 | |
| 2003 | Whitney Kirk | Cabot | 22 | Miss Three Rivers | Vocal / Dance "All That Jazz" | Non-finalist Interview Award | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2000 | |
| 2002 | Lauren Davidson | El Dorado | 20 | Miss White River | Vocal "It's Time" | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | ||
| 2001 | Jessie Ward | Prescott | 21 | Miss Texarkana | Tap Dance "Michael Jackson Medley" | Semi-finalist | Current Executive Director of the Miss Arkansas pageant under her married name, Jessie Bennett | |
| 2000 | Sara Harris | Forrest City | 20 | Miss Delta | Vocal "Unchained Melody" | |||
| 1999 | Brandy Rhodes | Hot Springs | 22 | Miss Lake Dardanelle | Original Tap Dance "American Rhapsody" | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1998 | Erin Wheatley | Little Rock | 22 | Miss White River | Vocal / Tap Dance "I Got Rhythm" | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1997 | Stacy Freeman | Sheridan | 22 | Miss White River | Tap Dance "Sing, Sing, Sing" | Previously Miss Arkansas Teen USA 1992 | ||
| 1996 | Melonie McGarrah | Rogers | 22 | Miss White River | Vocal "I Will Always Love You" | |||
| 1995 | Paula Montgomery | Cabot | 22 | Miss Greater Little Rock | Vocal "Can't Help Loving That Man" | 2nd runner-up | Previously Miss Arkansas Teen USA 1991 | |
| 1994 | Beth Anne Rankin | Magnolia | 23 | Miss Diamond Lakes | Piano | Non-Finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1993 | Nicole Bethmann | Rogers | 24 | Miss Diamond Lakes | Vocal "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1992 | Shannon Boy | Alma | 21 | Miss Diamond Lakes | Flute Solo "Theme from Star Wars" | |||
| 1991 | Heather Hunnicutt | Fayetteville | 22 | Miss Northwest Arkansas | Vocal "Born To Be Blue" | |||
| 1990 | Karissa Rushing | Benton | 24 | Miss White River | Vocal "With a Song In My Heart" | |||
| 1989 | Marci Lewallen | Dardanelle | 22 | Miss Arkansas Valley | Vocal / Banjo "Boogie Woogie Banjo Blues" | |||
| 1988 | Patti Thorn | Hot Springs | 23 | Miss Diamond Lakes | Vocal "Love Is Where You Find It" | Non-Finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1987 | Carole Lawson | Paragould | 21 | Miss University of Arkansas | Flute / Pic "Carmen Medley" | Former National Sweetheart Pageant winner 1986 | ||
| 1986 | Julie Russell | Fort Smith | 22 | Miss Westark Community College | Classical Piano Medley with Vocal Narration | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1985 | Christi Taunton | Camden | 20 | Miss Camden | Popular Vocal "Remembering" | recipient of Dr. David B. Allman Medical Scholarship | ||
| 1984 | Lisa Stevens | Arkadelphia | 22 | Miss Ouachita Baptist University | Flute Solo "Sabre Dance" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1983 | Regina Hopper | Springdale | 24 | Miss Springdale | Popular Vocal "You're Gonna Hear From Me" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Elected to the Miss America Board of Directors | |
| 1982 | Mary Stuart | Little Rock | 20 | Miss White River | Vocal / Broadway Jazz Dance "The Birth of the Blues" | Semi-finalist | actress who played "Frannie Hughes" on "As the World Turns" from 1990-1993 | |
| 1981 | Micki Petrus | Miss University of Central Arkansas | ||||||
| Elizabeth Ward | Russellville | 20 | Miss White River | Vocal "After You've Gone" | Winner | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | now known as actress "Elizabeth Gracen," former National Sweetheart Pageant winner 1980 | |
| 1980 | Lencola Sullivan | Morrilton | 22 | Miss White River | Blues Vocal "St. Louis Blues" | 4th runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | *first African-American contestant to place as a runner-up at Miss America; Toured with Miss America USO Troupe |
| 1979 | Janet Holman | North Little Rock | 22 | Miss University of Arkansas | Vocal "Somewhere" | |||
| 1978 | Naylene Vuurens | Searcy | 20 | Miss Diamond Lakes | Piano Solo "Etude in G Minor" | |||
| 1977 | Bunnie Holbert | Stuttgart | 20 | Miss White River | Vocal "Feelings" | Preliminary Swimsuit Award, Non-Finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1976 | Joyce McCormack | Little Rock | 21 | Miss White River | Ballet en Pointe "Polonaise" | Non-Finalist Talent Award | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | |
| 1975 | Paula Roach | Jonesboro | 20 | Miss Jonesboro | Piano "Theme from Summer of '42" | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | ||
| 1974 | Rhonda Pope | Hot Springs | 21 | Miss Hot Springs | Vocal Medley "Friends" & "With a Little Help from My Friends" | Miss Congeniality (tie) | participated in Miss America USO Troupe | |
| 1973 | Becky Hume | Jonesboro | 23 | Miss Osceola | Free Floor Exercise & Balance Beam Routine | |||
| 1972 | Debbye Hazelwood | Magnolia | 20 | Miss Southern State College | Piano "Warsaw Concerto" | |||
| 1971 | Marilyn Morgan | Clarksville | 20 | Miss Clarksville | Popular Vocal "Something" | Non-Finalist Talent Award | Featured singer in the 1972 Miss America production | |
| 1970 | Donna Connelly | Hope | 19 | Miss State College of Arkansas | Vocal Medley "Who Will Buy" from Oliver! & "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing" | Semi-finalist | participated in Miss America USO Troupe | |
| 1969 | Marilyn Allen | North Little Rock | 20 | Miss North Little Rock | Acrobatic Ballet "Theme from Exodus" | |||
| 1968 | Helen Gennings | Batesville | 20 | Miss Ouachita Baptist University | Popular Vocal "What the World Needs Now" & "Love Makes the World Go Round" | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | ||
| 1967 | Sharon Evans | North Little Rock | 20 | Miss Ouachita Baptist University | Vocal / Dance "Mame" | Preliminary Swimsuit Award, Miss Congeniality (tie) | ||
| 1966 | Mary Craig | Batesville | 18 | Miss Batesville | Vocal / Dancing | |||
| 1965 | Nita VanHook | |||||||
| Rhonda Oglesby | Pine Bluff | 19 | Miss University of Arkansas | Popular Singing | resigned after briefly holding the title for three months; listed as Miss Arkansas in the Miss America program from 1965 | |||
| 1964 | Karen Carlson | Fayetteville | 20 | Miss University of Arkansas | Vocal "As Long As He Needs Me" | 1st runner-up | actress, ex-wife of David Soul; contestant in the 1964 Maid of Cotton Pageant | |
| 1963 | Pam Jackson | |||||||
| Donna Axum | El Dorado | 21 | Miss El Dorado | Vocal Medley "Quando me'n vo'" & "I Love Paris" | Winner | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Currently serving on the Miss America Board of Directors; competed in the 1960 Miss Dixie Pageant as "Miss Hospitality of Arkansas" | |
| 1962 | Edye Addington | Texarkana | 19 | Miss Arkansas State Teachers' College | Vocal Medley "When I Fall In Love" & "This Can't Be Love" | |||
| 1961 | Frances Anderson | Pine Bluff | 19 | Miss Pine Bluff | Vocal "I Enjoy Being a Girl" | 1st runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Featured Performer for the 1962 Miss America Pageant |
| 1960 | Claudette Smith | Star City | 18 | Miss Pine Bluff | Vocal | |||
| 1959 | Suzanne Jackson | North Little Rock | 19 | Miss University of Arkansas | Vocal | |||
| 1958 | Sally Miller | Pine Bluff | Classical Vocal "Caro Nome" from Rigoletto | Semi-finalist | Competed in the 1959 Miss Dixie Pageant | |||
| 1957 | Suzanne Scudder | Hot Springs | Miss University of Arkansas | Vocal | ||||
| 1956 | Barbara Banks | Little Rock | Interpretive Ballet "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" | Semi-finalist | Prelminary Talent Award | |||
| 1955 | Charlene Bowers | Helena | ||||||
| 1954 | Sarah Martin | Little Rock | Classical Vocal | |||||
| 1953 | Helen Reed | Fayetteville | Tap Dance | |||||
| 1952 | Bonnie Nicksic | Hot Springs | Vocal / Dance "Life Upon the Wicked Stage" from Show Boat | |||||
| 1951 | Charlotte Simmen | Little Rock | Vocal & Art Exhibition | 3rd runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |||
| 1950 | Mary Jennings | Hot Springs | Classical Vocal "Un Bel Di" from Madame Butterfly | 3rd runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit | was a featured soprano with the New York City Opera, judged the 1989 and 1991 Miss America pageants | ||
| 1949 | Barbara Brothers | Little Rock | Painting Display & Poetry Recitation "Old Black Joe" & "I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy" | Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1948 | Van Louis McDaniel | Forrest City | Monologue "Spartan Parents" | |||||
| 1947 | Pam Camp | Little Rock | Sketching | |||||
| 1946 | Rebecca McCall | Blytheville | Vocal "Put the Blame on Mame" | 1st runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |||
| 1945 | Leslie Hampton | Lake Village | Vocal "My Man" | |||||
| 1944 | Mineola Graham | Brinkley | ||||||
| 1943 | Dorris Love | Jonesboro | Dramatic Reading "Letter to a Soldier" | Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1941 | Ferol Amelia Dumas | Magnolia | ||||||
| 1940 | Betty Benson | Forrest City | ||||||
| 1939 | Jean Thompson | Helena | ||||||
| 1938 | Lorene Bailey | Jonesboro | Piano "Dinah" | |||||
| 1933 | Vivian Ferguson | 20 | disqualified - married | |||||
| 1925 | No Miss Arkansas | Virginia Bowers competed as Miss Little Rock in the Miss America Pageant |
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