Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Local Title | Age1 | Talent | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | DaNae Couch | Coppell | Miss Dallas | 23 | Twirling "You Can't Stop the Beat" | |||
| 2011 | Kendall Morris | Ennis | Miss Frisco | 20 | Piano "New World Symphony" | Top 10 | Preliminary Swimsuit Award and Louanne Gamba (LuLu) Instrumental Award | Previously Miss Texas' Outstanding Teen 2006 |
| 2010 | Ashley Melnick | Dallas | Miss Fort Worth | 21 | Vocal "I Surrender" | Top 12 | ||
| 2009 | Kristen Blair | Southlake | Miss North Texas | 22 | Classical Vocal "Chi il bel sogno di Doretta" from La rondine | Top 10 at Miss America 2010 | ||
| 2008 | Rebecca Robinson | Buffalo | Miss Longview | 24 | Tap Dance "Hey Pachuco" | Miss Congeniality | Previously Miss Teen Texas 2000 | |
| 2007 | Molly Hazlett | Centerville | Miss Longview | 21 | Character Jazz en Pointe "Rich Man's Frug" from Sweet Charity | Top 8 Finalist at Miss America 2008 | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |
| 2006 | Shilah Phillips | Plano | Miss Frisco | 25 | Vocal "I Believe in You and Me" | 1st runner up at Miss America 2007 | Preliminary Talent Award | First African-American to win Miss Texas title. |
| 2005 | Morgan Matlock | Lamesa | Miss Fort Worth | 24 | Vocal Medley "Come Rain or Come Shine" & "What Kind of Fool Am I?" | Top 10 Semi-finalist at Miss America 2006 | ||
| 2004 | Jamie Story | Bedford | Miss Arlington | 23 | Classical Piano "Concerto No. 1 in G Minor" | Top 10 Semi-finalist at Miss America 2005 | ||
| 2003 | Sunni Cranfill | Hooks | Miss Amarillo Area | 23 | Ballet en Pointe "Carmen Fantasy" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Dallas Cowboys cheerleader in 2009 | |
| 2002 | Mary Lisa Dalzell | Magnolia | Miss Lake O' The Pines | 23 | Flute Medley "Shenandoah" & "Dueling Banjos" | Top 10 Semi-finalist at Miss America 2003 | Preliminary Interview Award | Morning Anchor at CBS affiliate in Tyler, TX |
| 2001 | Stacy James | Texarkana | Miss Lake O' The Pines | 22 | Vocal "Man of La Mancha" | Top 20 Quarter-finalist at Miss America 2002 | ||
| 2000 | Tara Watson | Lufkin | Miss Hurst-Euless-Bedford | 22 | Vocal "I've Got a Crush on You" | Top 10 Semi-finalist at Miss America 2001 | Previously Miss Teen Texas 1993 | |
| 1999 | Yanci Yarborough | Childress | Miss Hurst-Euless-Bedford | 24 | Vocal Medley "Come In From the Rain" & "Stormy Weather" | 4th runner-up at Miss America 2000 | Vocalist working with Fellowship Church | |
| 1998 | Tatum Hubbard | Odessa | Miss Arlington | 24 | Jazz Dance "Hit Me With a Hot Note And Watch Me Bounce" from Sophisticated Ladies | Main anchor at CBS affiliate in Midland-Odessa (KOSA-TV) | ||
| 1997 | Reagan Hughes | Midland | Miss Lake O' The Pines | 23 | Dramatic Vocal "I Dreamed a Dream" | |||
| 1996 | Michelle Martinez | Dallas | Miss Dallas | 23 | Classical Piano "Ballade in G Minor" | Top 10 Semi-finalist | ||
| 1995 | Carly Jarmon | Mesquite | Miss Oak Cliff | 19 | Vocal "Stand by Your Man" | Previously Miss Teen Texas 1992 | ||
| 1994 | Arian Archer | Borger | Miss Amarillo Area | 20 | Vocal "Almost Over You" | Top 10 Semi-finalist at Miss America 1995 | ||
| 1993 | BaShara Chandler | Garland | Miss Northeast Texas | 21 | Piano "4th Movement of Sonata in C" by Alberto Ginastera | Non-finalist Interview Award | ||
| 1992 | Amy Parker | Carrollton | Miss Tarrant County | 22 | Vocal "A Sunday Kind of Love" | |||
| 1991 | Rhonda Morrison | Coldspring | Miss Lake O' The Pines | 21 | Vocal "My Funny Valentine" | Top 10 Semi-finalist | ||
| 1990 | Suzanne Lawrence | Humble | Miss Humble/Kingwood | 21 | Country Vocal "Sweet Dreams" | 3rd runner-up at Miss America 1991 | Preliminary Talent Award, Quality of Life Award | |
| 1989 | Leah Kay Lyle | Plainview | Miss Haltom-Richland Area | 22 | Piano "Sonata Opus 22" by Alberto Ginastera | Top 10 Semi-finalist at Miss America 1990 | ||
| 1988 | Cathy Castro | McAllen | Miss Duncanville | 22 | Ballet en Pointe | First Hispanic to win Miss Texas title. | ||
| 1987 | Rita Jo Thompson | Lufkin | Miss Greenville | 22 | Jazz Dance "An American Trilogy" | Top 10 Semi-finalist at Miss America 1988 | ||
| 1986 | Stephany Samone | Dallas | Miss Grand Prairie | 25 | Country Vocal "Stand By Your Man" | Top 10 Semi-finalist | Preliminary Talent Award | Toured with the 1987 Gillette Miss America Show Troupe |
| 1985 | Jonna Fitzgerald | Greenville | Miss Greenville | 21 | Fiddle "Csárdás" & "Orange Blossom Special" | 2nd runner-up at Miss America 1986 | Preliminary Talent Award | Toured with 1986 Miss America Gillette Show Troupe |
| 1984 | Tamara Hext | Fort Worth | Miss Arlington | 21 | Vocal "I've Got a Crush On You" | 4th runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |
| 1983 | Dana Rogers | Boerne | Miss San Antonio | 22 | Vocal "An American Trilogy" | Top 10 Semi-finalist at Miss America 1984 | Featured performer at the 1985 Miss America Pageant | |
| 1982 | Gloria Gilbert | Millsap | Miss Palo Pinto County | 20 | Ventriloquism & Vocal "I've Been Everywhere" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Previously winner of the 1981 National Sweetheart Pageant, toured with 1986 Miss America Gillette Show Troupe, longtime hostess of the Miss Texas Pageant television broadcast. | |
| 1981 | Sheri Ryman | Texas City | Miss Texas A&M | 20 | Gymnastics "Theme from Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 4th runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe |
| 1980 | Terri Eoff | Lubbock | Miss Lubbock | 19 | Dramatic performance from "A Bad Play For an Old Lady" | Top 10 Semi-finalist | Actress, appeared on soap opera Search for Tomorrow. | |
| 1979 | Lex Ann Haughey | Hurst | Miss Haltom-Richland Area | 20 | Flute "Flight of the Bumblebee" & "Flight '76" by Walter Murphy | |||
| 1978 | Sandi Miller | Mesquite | Miss Red Bird Area | 20 | Classical Piano "2nd Concerto in F Minor" | Top 10 Semi-finalist at Miss America 1979 | ||
| 1977 | Lori Smith | Fort Worth | Miss Haltom-Richland Area | 20 | Vocal "Moanin' Low" | Top 10 Semi-finalist | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | |
| 1976 | Carmen McCollum | Odessa | Miss West Texas | 19 | Saxophone Medley "Wabash Cannonball" "Yakety Sax" & "If He Walked Into My Life" from Mame | 2nd runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award, Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |
| 1975 | Mary Ellen Richardson | Waco | Miss Waco | 20 | Classical Vocal "The Jewel Song" from Faust | Top 10 Semi-finalist | ||
| 1974 | Phyllis Barger | Miss Houston | Ballet en Pointe | Assumed title after Shirley Cothran won Miss America title. | ||||
| Shirley Cothran | Fort Worth | Miss Haltom-Richland Area | 21 | Flute Medley "Bumble Boogie" & "Swingin' Shepherd Blues" | Winner | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | ||
| 1973 | Judy Mallett | Beaumont | Miss Haltom-Richland Area | Fiddle "Csárdás" & "Orange Blossom Special" | Top 10 Semi-finalist | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe; performed in halftime show of Super Bowl VIII | ||
| 1972 | Mae Beth Cormany | Wichita Falls | Miss Hurst-Euless-Bedford | Vocal "Misty" & "Come Rain or Come Shine" | 3rd runner-up | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | ||
| 1971 | Janice Bain | San Antonio | Miss White Settlement | 21 | Classical Vocal "Il Bacio" by Luigi Arditi | |||
| 1970 | Belinda Myrick | Odessa | Miss West Texas | Country Vocal | Assumed title after Phyllis George won Miss America title. Toured with Miss America USO Troupe. | |||
| Phyllis George | Denton | Miss Dallas | 21 | Piano Medley "Promises, Promises" & "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" | Winner | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | One of the first women sportscasters on network television as co-host of NFL Today on CBS (1975–77; 1980–83) | |
| 1969 | Dana Dowell | White Oak | Miss Longview | 19 | Trap Drum Solo "Caravan" | |||
| 1968 | Glenda Propes | Miss Rusk County | Vocal and Dance (Broadway) | Assumed title after Diane Hugghins resigned. | ||||
| Diane Hugghins | Tyler | Miss Nacogdoches | 20 | Jazz Dance "Put on a Happy Face" from Bye Bye Birdie | Resigned after competing at Miss America. | |||
| 1967 | Molly Grubb | Fort Worth | Miss Fort Worth | 20 | Ballet en Pointe "La Périchole" | |||
| 1966 | Susan Logan | San Angelo | Miss Lubbock | 19 | Dramatic Monologue from Gone with the Wind | Top 10 Semi-finalist | ||
| 1965 | Mary Lou Butler | Irving | Miss Nacogdoches | 19 | Vocal | |||
| 1964 | Lenda Varley | Fort Worth | Miss Fort Worth | 19 | Vocal | Did not compete at Miss America, assumed title after Sharon McCauley resigned. | ||
| Sharon McCauley | Athens | Miss Athens | 20 | Vocal "Let Me Entertain You" from Gypsy: A Musical Fable | 3rd runner-up | Resigned to marry state director. | ||
| 1963 | Jeanne Amacker | Beaumont | Miss Austin | Vocal "When You Wish upon a Star" | ||||
| 1962 | Penny Lee Rudd | Waskom | Miss Marshall | 19 | Jazz Dance "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" | 2nd runner-up | ||
| 1961 | Linda Loftis | Fort Worth | Miss Fort Worth | 19 | Classical Vocal "Sempre Libera" from La traviata | 3rd runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | |
| 1960 | Mary Cage Moore | Laredo | Miss Dallas | 18 | Spanish Dance to music by Manuel de Falla | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1959 | Marilyn Turner | Fort Worth | Miss Fort Worth | 19 | Ballet en Pointe | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1958 | Mary Nell Hendricks | Arlington | Miss Arlington | Vocal "Getting to Know You" | Top 10 Semi-finalist | Competed in the 1959 Miss Dixie Pageant | ||
| 1957 | Carolyn Calvert | Austin | Miss Austin | Dance | Competed in the 1958 Miss Dixie Pageant | |||
| 1956 | Barbara Murry | Houston | Miss Houston | Vocal | Also competed in the 1957 Miss Dixie Pageant | |||
| 1955 | June Prichard | Seymour | Miss West Texas | Horseback riding and rodeo events | 1st runner-up in the 1957 Miss Dixie Pageant | |||
| 1954 | Yvonne Erwin | Dallas | Miss Dallas | Piano & Speech about Interior Design and Art | ||||
| 1953 | Paula Lane | Cleburne | Miss Cleburne | Fashion design & Speech | ||||
| 1952 | Connie Hopping | Littlefield | Miss Littlefield | Vocal | ||||
| 1951 | Glenda Holcomb | Odessa | Miss West Texas | Dramatic Monologue | ||||
| 1950 | Margaret Sommers | Dallas | Miss Dallas | Classical Vocal "Jealousy" | Semi-finalist | |||
| 1949 | Ysleta Leissner | Fort Worth | Miss Fort Worth | Ballet en Pointe | ||||
| 1948 | Bonnie Jean Bland | Orange | Miss Orange | Vocal | ||||
| 1947 | Luna McClain | Lufkin | Miss Lufkin | Vocal "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" & "Cowboy Boogie" | Miss Congeniality | |||
| 1946 | D. Anne Wisener | University Park | Miss University Park | Vocal "Embraceable You" | ||||
| 1945 | Polly Below | Galveston | Miss Galveston | Vocal | Semi-finalist | |||
| 1944 | Joyce Courrege | Orange | Miss Orange | Comedy Monologue | Miss Congeniality | |||
| 1942 | Jo-Carroll Dennison | Tyler | Miss Tyler | 19 | Vocal and Dance "Deep in the Heart of Texas" | Winner | Preliminary Talent Award, Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |
| 1940/41 | Gloria Ann Byrns Evans | Port Arthur | Miss Port Arthur | Tap Dance & Baton Twirling | withdrew due to illness in 1940, returned to represent Texas in 1941 | |||
| 1939 | Charmayne Smith | Dallas | Miss Dallas | Vocal "Round-Up Time in Texas" | Semi-finalist | |||
| 1937 | Alice Emerick | Fort Worth | Miss Fort Worth | Tap Dance | 1st runner-up | |||
| 1936 | Patricia Allen Green | Corpus Christi | Miss Corpus Christi | Semi-finalist | *Competed at Miss America as Miss Corpus Christi | |||
| 1927 | No Miss Texas | Moselle Ransome competed as Miss Dallas and placed as 1st runner-up. Juanita Gilbert competed as Miss Fort Worth in the pageant. | ||||||
| 1926 | No Miss Texas | Rosebud Blondell competed as Miss Dallas and was a Finalist in the pageant. Also representing Texas were Winnie Law, Miss Fort Worth and Zasada Lord, Miss Houston. | ||||||
| 1925 | No Miss Texas | representing Texas were: Elinore Wilkens, Miss Dallas; Mary Louise Kilman, Miss Fort Worth and Edna Francis, Miss Houston | ||||||
| 1924 | No Miss Texas | representing Texas were: Vera Simpson, Miss Austin; Freeda Rowley, Miss Beaumont; Etta Mae Collins, Miss Dallas; Hazel Doolin, Miss Fort Worth; Lorraine Holzhaus, Miss Galveston; Mary C. Wilmot, Miss Houston; Katherine Hensley, Miss San Antonio and Thelma Kirsch, Miss Texas City. There was also a Miss Irvington who competed but whose name is not known. | ||||||
| 1923 | No Miss Texas | representing Texas were: Ruth Elizabeth Brand, Miss Dallas; Bessie Laurene Roosa, Miss Fort Worth; Gladys M. Webber, Miss Houston and Katherine Hensley, Miss San Antonio |
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