Year
|
Name
|
Hometown
|
Age
|
Local Title
|
Miss America Talent
|
Placement at Miss America
|
Special scholarships at Miss America
|
Notes
|
2024
|
Kiersten Khoury
|
Westwood
|
23
|
Miss Bay State
|
HerStory: Undefined
|
TBA
|
TBA
|
|
2023
|
Chelsea Vuong
|
Cambridge
|
25
|
Miss North Shore
|
Piano
|
|
|
First Asian-American woman to win Miss Massachusetts
|
2022
|
Katrina Kincade
|
Boston
|
25
|
Miss Cambridge
|
Vocal
|
|
|
|
2021
|
Elizabeth Pierre
|
North Cambridge
|
23
|
Miss Cambridge
|
Contemporary Dance
|
2nd runner-up
|
|
|
2019–20
|
Lyndsey Littlefield[1]
|
East Taunton
|
22
|
Miss Taunton
|
Lyrical Dance
|
|
STEM Scholarship Award 1st runner-up[2]
|
Longest reigning Miss Massachusetts at 2 years and 18 days (749 days), second longest reigning Miss America state titleholder[citation needed]
|
2018
|
Gabriela Taveras[3]
|
Lawrence
|
23
|
Miss North Shore
|
Vocal, "Rise Up"
|
4th runner-up[4]
|
People's Choice Award
Preliminary On Stage Interview Award[5]
STEM Scholarship Award[6]
|
First African American woman to win Miss Massachusetts title[3]
|
2017
|
Jillian Zucco[7]
|
Mattapoisett
|
24
|
Miss Bristol County
|
Vocal, "The Impossible Dream"
|
|
CMN Miracle Maker Award 2nd runner-up[8]
STEM Scholarship Award[8]
|
Top 10 finalist at National Sweetheart 2015 pageant
|
2016
|
Alissa Musto[9]
|
Rehoboth
|
21
|
Miss Cambridge
|
Piano
|
Top 15[10][11]
|
Charles & Theresa Brown Scholarship
|
Later Miss Massachusetts World 2020[12]
|
2015
|
Meagan Fuller[13]
|
Attleboro
|
22
|
Miss Collegiate Area
|
Jazz Dance, "Feeling Good"
|
|
|
Top 10 at America's Distinguished Young Women 2010 pageant
1st runner-up at National Sweetheart 2013 pageant
|
2014
|
Lauren Kuhn[14]
|
Boston
|
23
|
Miss Collegiate Area
|
Piano, "Valse Dramatico" by Melody Bober
|
4th runner-up
|
Charles & Theresa Brown Scholarship[15]
STEM Scholarship Award
|
|
2013
|
Amanda Narciso[16]
|
Taunton
|
22
|
Miss Cranberry Country
|
Tap Dance, "Can't Hold Us"
|
|
|
2nd runner-up at National Sweetheart 2011 pageant
|
2012
|
Taylor Kinzler[17]
|
Lakeville
|
20
|
Miss Norfolk County
|
Vocal, "At Last"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
Previously Miss Massachusetts' Outstanding Teen 2008[17]
Contestant at National Sweetheart 2010 pageant
|
2011
|
Molly Whalen
|
Middleboro
|
21
|
Miss Taunton
|
Vocal, "I Just Call You Mine"
|
|
|
|
2010
|
Loren Galler-Rabinowitz
|
Brookline
|
24
|
Miss Collegiate Area
|
Piano, "The Swan"
|
|
CMN Miracle Maker Award
|
U.S. Ice Dancing Bronze Medalist[citation needed]
|
2009
|
Amanda Kelly
|
Braintree
|
23
|
Miss Fall River
|
Vocal, "Show Off" from The Drowsy Chaperone
|
|
|
Sister of Miss Massachusetts USA 2006, Tiffany Kelly
Contestant at National Sweetheart 2008 pageant
|
2008
|
Alicia Zitka[18]
|
West Springfield
|
22
|
Miss Hampden County
|
Lyrical Dance, "I Will Love You" by Fisher
|
|
|
|
2007
|
Valerie Amaral[19]
|
Acushnet
|
22
|
Miss North Shore
|
Vocal, "Anyway"
|
|
CMN Miracle Maker Award
Non-finalist Talent Award
Preliminary Talent Award
Quality of Life Award Finalist
|
Previously Miss Massachusetts' Outstanding Teen 2001
Contestant at National Sweetheart 2006 pageant
|
2006
|
Michaela Gagne
|
Fall River
|
24
|
Miss Southcoast
|
Vocal, "Bye Bye Blackbird"
|
|
|
Contestant at National Sweetheart 2005 pageant
|
2005
|
Kristin Gauvin
|
Worcester
|
23
|
Miss Apponagansett Bay
|
Tap Dance, "Christmas Eve in Sarajevo"
|
|
|
Top 10 at National Sweetheart 2004 pageant
Later New England Patriots Cheerleader[citation needed]
|
2004
|
Erika Ebbel
|
Cambridge
|
23
|
Classical Piano, "Fantaisie-Impromptu"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
Preliminary Talent Award
|
2nd runner-up at National Sweetheart 2003 pageant
|
2003
|
Melissa Silva
|
Fall River
|
23
|
Miss Southern Massachusetts
|
Vocal, "Who Will Love Me As I Am?" from Side Show
|
|
|
Contestant at National Sweetheart 2002 pageant
|
2002
|
Melanie Correia
|
Acushnet
|
22
|
Miss Taunton
|
Vocal, "Big Time"
|
Top 10
|
|
2nd runner-up at National Sweetheart 2001 pageant
|
2001
|
Abbie Rabine
|
Wenham
|
22
|
Miss Southern Massachusetts/Freetown
|
Vocal, "Via Dolorosa"
|
1st runner-up
|
Preliminary Interview Award
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
|
Contestant at National Sweetheart 1999 pageant
|
2000
|
Michelle Neves
|
New Bedford
|
23
|
Miss Pioneer Valley
|
Vocal, "I'm Afraid This Must Be Love"
|
|
|
Previously Miss Massachusetts Teen USA 1994[citation needed]
|
1999
|
April Thibeault
|
Boston
|
21
|
Miss North Shore
|
Ballet, "Reflections of Passion"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
1998
|
Elizabeth Hancock
|
Cambridge
|
20
|
Miss Suffolk County
|
Musical Theater Monologue from 42nd Street
|
|
Non-finalist Interview Award
|
|
1997
|
Samira Zebian
|
Westfield
|
20
|
Miss Tri-Counties/North Shore
|
Irish Step Dance
|
|
Waterford Crystal Award for Business Marketing & Management
|
|
1996
|
Lori Flick
|
Boston
|
24
|
Interpretive Gymnastics Dance, "Prologue from Beauty and the Beast"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
1995
|
Marcia Turner
|
Cambridge
|
21
|
Miss Tri-Counties/North Shore
|
Piano, "Souvenirs d'Andalousie, Op.22" by Louis Moreau Gottschalk
|
Top 10
|
|
|
1994
|
Sharon Lee
|
Somerville
|
24
|
Miss Tri-Counties/North Shore
|
Classical Vocal, "O Mio Babbino Caro"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
1993
|
Ellen Fitzgerald
|
Saugus
|
22
|
Miss Bay State
|
Vocal, "Vision of Love"
|
|
|
|
1992
|
Lisa Desroches
|
New Bedford
|
21
|
Miss New Bedford
|
Character Ballet en Pointe, "Can-Can"
|
Top 10
|
|
|
1991
|
Melissa Bloemker
|
East Boston
|
20
|
Miss Greater Boston
|
Harp, "Tango & Rumba from Suite of Eight Dances" by Carlos Salzedo
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
1990
|
Marissa Laakso
|
Randolph
|
24
|
Miss Bay State
|
Character Tap Dance, "Mr. Bojangles"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
1989
|
Janette Elman
|
Attleboro
|
22
|
Miss Greater Attleboro
|
Russian Cossack Dance
|
|
|
|
1988
|
Diana Steckler
|
East Boston
|
22
|
Miss East Boston
|
Vocal, "Amazing Grace"
|
|
|
|
1987
|
Aurelie McCarthy
|
24
|
Marimba, "Hava Nagila", "William Tell Overture", & "Joplin on Wood"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
Former executive director of the Miss Massachusetts pageant[citation needed]
|
1986
|
Kathleen Callahan
|
Revere
|
23
|
Miss Boston
|
Popular Vocal, "Come Rain or Come Shine"
|
|
|
|
1985
|
Lisa Kleypas
|
Carlisle
|
20
|
Miss Tri-County
|
Original Vocal Composition & Guitar, "Love You Are My Wings"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
1984
|
Margaret O'Brien
|
Weymouth
|
26
|
Miss Cape Cod
|
Vocal Medley, "The Man that Got Away", "The Man I Love", & "My Man"
|
Top 10
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
Previously National Sweetheart 1983
|
1983
|
Holly Mayer
|
Brookline
|
26
|
Miss Merrimack Valley
|
Dance / Baton Twirling, Music from Gypsy: A Musical Fable
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
Previously National Sweetheart 1982
Mother of Miss New York's Outstanding Teen 2011 and Miss New York 2019, Lauren Molella
Sister-in-law of Miss New York 1989, Lisa Molella[20]
|
1982
|
Lisa Scorgie
|
North Attleboro
|
23
|
Miss Attleboro
|
Violin, "Fantasy of Russian Folk Songs"
|
|
|
|
1981
|
Deborah Salois
|
North Andover
|
19
|
Miss Methuen
|
Vocal, "Keepin' Out of Mischief Now" from Ain't Misbehavin'
|
|
|
|
1980
|
Amy Linder
|
Lowell
|
22
|
Piano, Sonata by Alberto Ginastera
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
1979
|
Lisa Matta
|
Brockton
|
20
|
Miss Boston
|
Jazz Dance, "Slow Dancing"
|
|
|
|
1978
|
Rowena Humphrey
|
Worthington
|
20
|
Miss Northern Berkshire
|
Ballet en Pointe, "(Where Do I Begin?) Love Story"
|
|
|
|
1977
|
Janice Ould
|
Boston
|
25
|
Miss Methuen
|
Semi-classical Vocal, "One Kiss" from The New Moon
|
|
|
|
1976
|
Deborah Guastella
|
Methuen
|
22
|
Miss Merrimack Valley
|
Vocal, "Your World And Mine"
|
|
|
|
1975
|
Cynthia Carpenter
|
Wayland
|
22
|
Miss Marlboro
|
Classical Piano, "Malagueña"
|
Top 10
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
1974
|
Susan Sadlier
|
Lowell
|
22
|
Miss Newburyport/Coast Guard
|
Musical Comedy, "I'm the Greatest Star"
|
|
Dr. David B. Allman Medical Scholarship
|
|
1973
|
Rena Walmsley
|
North Attleboro
|
20
|
Miss Attleboro
|
Dramatic Soliloquy from Funny Girl
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
1972
|
Marie Semas
|
Taunton
|
18
|
Miss Taunton
|
Piano & Vocal Original Composition
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
1971
|
Deborah O'Brien
|
Foxboro
|
22
|
Miss Foxboro
|
Classical Vocal, "Je Veux Vivre" from Roméo et Juliette
|
2nd runner-up
|
|
|
1970
|
Diana Dohrmann
|
Boston
|
21
|
|
Piano, "The Kid From Red Bank" by Count Basie
|
|
|
|
1969
|
Georgina Hossfeld
|
Burlington
|
22
|
Miss Burlington
|
Piano, "Piano Concerto in A minor" by Edvard Grieg & "Bumble Boogie"
|
Top 10
|
|
|
1968
|
Catherine Monroe
|
Lynnfield
|
20
|
Miss Woburn
|
Sign Language & Dance, "What the World Needs Now Is Love"
|
1st runner-up
|
|
|
1967
|
Maria Lynn Chaffee
|
Waltham
|
18
|
Miss Woburn
|
Ballet & Jazz Toe Dance, "Do I Hear a Waltz?", "Georgy Girl", & "One of Those Songs"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
1966
|
Carol Kennedy
|
Worcester
|
19
|
Miss Northboro
|
Jazz Ballet Dance, "Can-Can"
|
Top 10
|
|
|
1965
|
Mabel Bendiksen
|
New Bedford
|
18
|
Miss New Bedford
|
Dramatic Reading & Folk Singing, "The Hazards of Nuclear Fallout" & "What Have They Done to the Rain"
|
|
|
|
1964
|
Kathleen Kenneally
|
Whitman
|
21
|
Miss Brockton
|
Dramatic Reading
|
|
|
|
1963
|
Lila Saldani
|
Attleboro
|
|
Miss Attleboro
|
Original Dramatic Monologue, "A World of Darkness"
|
|
|
|
1962
|
Karen Behn
|
North Dartmouth
|
18
|
Miss New Bedford
|
Dramatic Reading
|
|
|
|
1961
|
Nona Smith
|
Fairhaven
|
18
|
Dramatic Reading
|
|
|
|
1960
|
Brenda Crovo
|
Reading
|
20
|
Miss Cambridge
|
Vocal Medley, "Bill" & "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" from Show Boat
|
Top 10
|
|
|
1959
|
Sharon Faught
|
Holyoke
|
21
|
|
Dramatic Reading & Vocal
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
1958
|
Patricia Nordling
|
Lexington
|
|
|
Vocal / Piano, "Exactly Like You"
|
|
|
|
1957
|
Daly Hirsch
|
Boston
|
|
|
Drama
|
|
|
|
1956
|
Jewel Smerage
|
Boston
|
|
|
Vocal Medley from The King and I
|
Top 10
|
|
Featured in Atul Gawande's #1 New York Times bestselling book, Being Mortal[21]
|
1955
|
Virginia Maffucci
|
Watertown
|
|
|
Dramatic Monologue, "Solitary Confinement"
|
Top 10
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
1954
|
Judith Drake[22]
|
Fairhaven
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1953
|
Lois Feldman
|
Natick
|
|
|
Ballet
|
|
|
|
1952
|
Barbara Graves
|
Milton
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1951
|
Mildred Almeida
|
New Bedford
|
|
|
Fashion Modeling
|
|
|
1950
|
Britta Berg
|
Boston
|
|
Miss Massachusetts
|
|
|
|
Mary Teresa Hunt
|
Lynn
|
|
Miss Essex County-1949
|
Dramatic Reading
|
4th runner-up
|
|
Miss America 1949
|
Gloria Curelli
|
Roslindale
|
|
|
Dance
|
|
|
|
1948
|
Barbara McGrath
|
Boston
|
|
Miss Boston
|
|
|
|
Multiple Massachusetts representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
Barbara Laughton
|
Reading
|
|
Miss Massachusetts
|
Vocal, "The Moon Belongs to Everyone"
|
Top 15
|
|
1947
|
No Massachusetts representative at Miss America pageant[23]
|
1946
|
Paula C. Jerome
|
Boston
|
|
Miss Boston
|
|
|
|
Multiple Massachusetts representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
Urania "Rae" Nichols
|
Malden
|
|
Miss Massachusetts
|
|
|
|
1945
|
Claire Thibadeau
|
Boston
|
|
Miss Boston
|
|
|
|
Multiple Massachusetts representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
Ruth Thomas
|
Belmont
|
|
Miss Massachusetts
|
|
|
|
1944
|
Paulina McKevitt
|
Boston
|
|
Miss Boston
|
Vocal, "Goodnight, Wherever You Are"
|
1st runner-up
|
|
Multiple Massachusetts representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
Lucille Descoteau
|
Lowell
|
|
Miss Massachusetts
|
|
|
|
1943
|
Helena Frances Mack
|
Boston
|
|
Miss Boston
|
Samba Dance, "Cae Cae"
|
2nd runner-up
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
Preliminary Talent Award
|
Multiple Massachusetts representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
Mary McAnulty
|
Roslindale
|
|
Miss Massachusetts
|
|
|
|
1942
|
Paula Boardman
|
Natick
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1941
|
Betsy Sears Taylor
|
Cambridge
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1940
|
Polly Connors
|
Bedford
|
|
|
|
3rd runner-up
|
|
Mother of Miss Massachusetts USA 1967 Pamela Procter[24]
|
1939
|
No Massachusetts representative at Miss America pageant[25][26]
|
1938
|
1937
|
Claire Nevulis
|
South Boston
|
|
|
Vocal / Tap Dance
|
Top 16
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
1936
|
Marion Flynn
|
Norwood
|
18
|
Miss Long Beach
|
|
|
|
|
1935
|
Rita Mae King
|
Leominster
|
|
Miss Leominster
|
|
|
|
Multiple Massachusetts representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
Mary Stanley
|
Quincy
|
|
Miss Quincy
|
|
|
|
1934
|
No national pageant was held[27]
|
1933
|
Elsie Taylor
|
|
17
|
|
N/A[28]
|
Top 18
|
|
|
1932
|
No national pageants were held[27]
|
1931
|
1930
|
1929
|
1928
|
1927
|
Ethel Beatrice Pierce
|
|
|
Miss Boston
|
N/A[28]
|
Top 15
|
|
Multiple Massachusetts representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
Muriel E. Bowers
|
|
|
Miss Lynn
|
|
|
Marion Howarth
|
Fall River
|
|
Miss New England
|
|
|
Martha E. Hick
|
|
|
Miss Pittsfield
|
Top 15
|
|
Dorothy M. Rawson
|
|
|
Miss Worcester
|
|
|
1926
|
Mary "May" Mudge
|
|
|
Miss Boston
|
|
|
Multiple Massachusetts representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
Mary Robinson
|
|
|
Miss Lockport
|
|
|
Rosa Lee Irving
|
|
|
Miss Portsmouth
|
|
|
Muriel Borek
|
|
|
Miss Springfield
|
|
|
1925
|
Nina Wolff
|
|
|
Miss Boston
|
|
|
Multiple Massachusetts representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
Katherine Kearns
|
Newton
|
|
Miss New England
|
|
|
1924
|
Mildred M. Prendergast[29]
|
Boston
|
|
Miss Boston
|
|
|
After winning Miss Boston title, pageant officials banned Prendergast from competing in national pageant as she was married and had a nine-month old son[29][30]
Prendergast and her husband threatened legal action citing that officials knew she was married prior to competing in Miss Boston pageant[29][30]
After their protest, officials relented and allowed Prendergast to compete[29]
|
1923
|
Margaret Black[31]
|
|
|
|
Multiple Massachusetts representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
Doris Rowden George[32]
|
Cambridge
|
|
Miss Cambridge
|
|
|
Mildred Salisbury[33]
|
New Bedford
|
|
Miss New Bedford
|
|
|
1922
|
Charlotte Trowbridge[34]
|
Boston
|
|
Miss Boston
|
|
|
Multiple Massachusetts representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
Helen Lynch[35]
|
Fall River
|
|
Miss Fall River
|
|
|
Alice Burke[36]
|
New Bedford
|
|
Miss New Bedford
|
|
|
1921
|
No Massachusetts representative at Miss America pageant [37]
|