| Year
|
Name
|
Hometown
|
Age
|
Local Title
|
Miss America Talent
|
Placement at Miss America
|
Special scholarships at Miss America
|
Notes
|
| 2024
|
Jenae Lodewyk
|
Bay City
|
24
|
Miss Bay County
|
HerStory
|
TBA
|
TBA
|
Sister to Miss Michigan's Outstanding Teen 2016, Kendra Lodewyk
|
| 2023
|
Maya Schuhknecht[1]
|
Buchanan
|
21
|
Miss Spirit of the State
|
Speed Painting
|
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
| 2022
|
Melissa Beyrand
|
Milford
|
22
|
Miss Oakland County
|
Violin, "The Final Countdown"
|
|
|
Electro-pop violinist with NUCLASSICA®. Third Miss Michigan NUCLASSICA® violinist.
|
| 2021
|
Vivian Zhong[2]
|
Northville
|
24
|
Miss Spirit of the State
|
Piano
|
|
America's Choice
Non-Finalist Talent Winner
STEM Scholarship Winner
|
|
| 2019–20
|
Mallory Rivard[3]
|
Bay City
|
24
|
Miss Great Lakes Bay
|
Vocal
|
|
Equity & Justice Scholarship Award Finalist[4]
Private Interview Award[5]
|
4th runner-up at Miss Michigan Teen USA 2012 competition[citation needed]
3rd runner-up at Miss Michigan Teen USA 2013 competition[citation needed]
Retained title for an additional year due to COVID-19 pandemic[6]
|
| 2018
|
Emily Sioma[7]
|
Grass Lake
|
24
|
Miss Shoreline
|
Tap Dance, "Gotta Push On"
|
|
|
Made national news when she used her introduction during the Miss America telecast to highlight the ongoing Flint water crisis rather than state her academic credentials, by stating, "From the state with 84 percent of the U.S. fresh water, but none for its residents to drink..."[8]
3rd runner-up at Miss Michigan USA 2020 pageant[9]
|
| 2017
|
Heather Kendrick[10]
|
Marysville
|
23
|
Miss Washtenaw County
|
Violin, "Bad Romance"
|
|
|
Appeared on America's Got Talent with electro-pop violin group, Nuclassica[11] Second Miss Michigan NUCLASSICA violinist.
|
| 2016
|
Arianna Quan[12]
|
Bloomfield Hills
|
23
|
Miss Wayne County
|
Classical Piano, "L’Ouette" by Glinka Balakirev
|
|
Louanne Gamba Special Instrumentalist Award
Non-finalist Talent Award
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
| 2015
|
Emily Kieliszewski[13]
|
Alpena
|
23
|
Miss Stateline
|
Tap Dance, "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer
|
|
|
|
| 2014
|
KT Maviglia[14]
|
Dundee
|
21
|
Miss Washtenaw County
|
Dance, "Be Italian" from Nine
|
|
|
Diagnosed with sensorineural hearing loss aged nine[citation needed]
|
| 2013
|
Haley Williams[15]
|
Saline
|
20
|
Miss Saginaw County
|
Baton Twirling, "Thunder" by Nuttin' But Stringz
|
|
Quality of Life Award
|
Previously Miss Michigan's Outstanding Teen 2009[16]
Later named captain of the University of Alabama Crimsonettes[17]
|
| 2012
|
Angela Christine Venditti[18]
|
Shelby Township
|
25
|
Miss St. Clair Shores
|
Tap Dance, "Dirty Orchestra" by Black Violin
|
|
|
|
| 2011
|
Elizabeth Wertenberger[19]
|
Dundee
|
22
|
Miss Southwest
|
Dance, "Don't Stop Believin'"
|
|
Quality of Life Award 2nd runner-up
|
|
| 2010
|
Katie Lynn LaRoche
|
Bay City
|
23
|
Miss Capital City
|
Contemporary Dance, "Calls Me Home"
|
|
Miss Congeniality
Quality of Life Award
|
Contestant at National Sweetheart 2009 pageant
|
| 2009
|
Nicole Blaszczyk[20]
|
Novi[20]
|
22[20]
|
Miss Wayne County
|
Lyrical Dance, "Lifetime"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
| 2008
|
Ashlee Baracy[21]
|
Westland[20]
|
23
|
Miss Wayne County
|
Jazz Dance
|
Top 10
|
Miss America Scholar
Quality of Life Award 1st runner-up
|
1st runner-up at National Sweetheart 2007 pageant
|
| 2007
|
Gina Valo
|
Ann Arbor
|
|
Miss West Michigan
|
Fiddle
|
Did not compete; originally 1st runner-up, later assumed the title after Haglund won Miss America 2008
|
|
|
2nd runner-up at National Sweetheart 2006 pageant
|
| Kirsten Haglund[22]
|
Farmington Hills
|
19[20]
|
Miss Oakland County
|
Vocal, "Over the Rainbow"
|
Winner[23]
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
|
Granddaughter of Miss Detroit 1944, Iora June Victor[24]
|
| 2006
|
Angela Corsi
|
Farmington Hills
|
24
|
Miss Heart of Michigan
|
Contemporary Dance en Pointe, "Sway"
|
|
|
4th runner-up at National Sweetheart 2004 pageant
3rd runner-up at National Sweetheart 2005 pageant
|
| 2005
|
Octavia Reese[20]
|
Detroit
|
23
|
Miss Wayne County
|
Cello, "Fuego"
|
|
|
|
| 2004
|
Kelli Talicska
|
Auburn
|
24
|
Miss Kalamazoo County
|
Vocal, "All I Ask of You" from The Phantom of the Opera
|
|
|
Contestant at National Sweetheart 2003 pageant
|
| 2003
|
Madonna Kimberly Emond
|
Livonia
|
22
|
Miss Great Lakes
|
Jazz Dance, "On Broadway"
|
Top 15
|
|
3rd runner-up at National Sweetheart 2001 pageant
Previously National Sweetheart 2002
|
| 2002
|
Erin Moss[20]
|
Stevensville
|
21
|
Miss Southwest Michigan
|
Flute, "Riverdance"
|
|
|
|
| 2001
|
Stacy Essebaggers[20]
|
Whitehall
|
21
|
Miss Great Lakes
|
Clogging, Rhythm Of The Night (From "Moulin Rouge" Soundtrack)
|
Top 10
|
|
|
| 2000
|
Che'vonne Burton[20]
|
Detroit
|
18
|
Miss Redford Township
|
Vocal Medley, "This Can't Be Love" & "Almost Like Being in Love"
|
Top 10
|
|
Previously Miss Michigan Teen USA 1997
|
| 1999
|
Audrie Chernauckas[25]
|
Livonia
|
23
|
Miss Redford Township
|
Ballet en Pointe, Medley from Titanic
|
|
|
Publicly condemned state assemblymen for "improper" spending of the state's $8.5 billion tobacco settlement on smoking causation programs[25]
Appeared in a 2011 episode of House Hunters with husband and young son[citation needed]
Performed for The Rockettes and Siegfried and Roy[17]
|
| 1998
|
Laura Welling
|
23
|
Miss Washtenaw County
|
Gymnastic Dance, Selection from Jurassic Park
|
|
|
|
| 1997
|
Kimberly Stec[25]
|
Rochester
|
22
|
Jazz Dance, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going"
|
|
|
|
| 1996
|
Jennifer Lynn Drayton[25]
|
Saginaw
|
22
|
Miss Great Lakes
|
Classical Piano, "Piano Sonata No. 23" by Beethoven
|
|
|
|
| 1995
|
Coni Lyn Hull Sullivan
|
Jackson
|
23
|
Miss Redford Township
|
Vocal, "Half a Moment" from By Jeeves
|
|
|
|
| 1994
|
Maria Malay Kamara[25]
|
Zeeland
|
24
|
Miss Heart of Michigan
|
Classical Vocal, "Sempre libera" from La traviata
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 1993
|
Stacey Gail Heisler[25]
|
Livonia
|
23
|
Miss Great Lakes
|
Violin, "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"
|
|
Quality of Life Award 1st runner-up
|
|
| 1992
|
Terri Sue Liford[25]
|
Monroe
|
24
|
Miss Monroe County
|
Popular Vocal, "Only You"
|
|
Quality of Life Award 2nd runner-up
|
|
| 1991
|
Sandra Kay Metiva
|
Saginaw
|
25
|
Miss Northern Michigan
|
Vocal, "Amazing Grace"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 1990
|
Victoria Lynn Fair
|
Jackson
|
21
|
Miss Jackson County
|
Classical Vocal, "Habanera"
|
|
|
|
| 1989
|
Margaret Jan McIntyre[26]
|
Monroe
|
24
|
Miss Monroe County
|
Ballet, Carmen
|
|
|
|
| 1988
|
Krista Ann Blomgren
|
Livonia
|
22
|
Miss Heart of Michigan
|
Oboe, "Polovetsian Dances"
|
|
|
Top Ten Finalist - Grammy Educator Award, 7X Semi-Finalist - Grammy Educator Award, 2017 50 Most Influential Music Educators in the U.S., Pi Kappa Lamba, Guest Conductor, Band Adjudicator. 1989 International Spokesmodel for the Cultured Pearl Industry
|
| 1987
|
Melanie Ester Churella
|
Farmington Hills
|
|
Miss Farmington
|
|
Did not compete; later assumed the title after Rafko won Miss America 1988
|
| Kaye Lani Rae Rafko
|
Monroe
|
23
|
Miss Monroe County
|
Hawaiian-Tahitian Dance
|
Winner[27]
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
|
|
| 1986
|
Kelly Lynn Garver
|
Farmington Hills
|
23
|
Miss Farmington
|
Fiddle Medley, "Orange Blossom Special" & "New Country"
|
3rd runner-up
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
| 1985
|
Alecia Rae Masalkoski
|
Muskegon
|
23
|
Miss Muskegon County
|
Karate Kata
|
Top 10
|
|
Holds a black belt in karate[citation needed]
Later Miss Indiana USA 1987[citation needed]
|
| 1984
|
Barbara Jean Crandall
|
Lawrence
|
21
|
Miss Southwest Michigan
|
Ventriloquism, "Auctioneer's Song"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 1983
|
Denise Gehman
|
Waterford
|
20
|
Miss West Bloomfield
|
Vocal Medley, "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" & "Show Me" from My Fair Lady
|
|
|
|
| 1982
|
Kathy Lou Pennington
|
Jackson
|
25
|
Miss Heart of Michigan
|
Vocal, "God Bless the Child"
|
|
|
|
| 1981
|
Gwen Roberta Brown
|
Ishpeming
|
22
|
Miss Ishpeming
|
Dramatic Presentation of Original Writing, "Memory of Grandmother"
|
|
|
|
| 1980
|
Heidi Hepler
|
Livonia
|
24
|
Miss Livonia
|
Classical Vocal, "Italian Street Song"
|
|
|
|
| 1979
|
Bethany Jane Wright[28]
|
Saginaw
|
19
|
Miss Saginaw
|
Vocal, "The Music and the Mirror" from A Chorus Line
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 1978
|
Suzanne Schemm
|
Essexville
|
21
|
Miss Van Buren County
|
Vocal / Dance, "All That Jazz"
|
|
|
|
| 1977
|
Holly Schmidt
|
Farmington Hills
|
18
|
Miss Farmington
|
Piano, "Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum"
|
|
|
|
| 1976
|
Diane Kay Hansen
|
Berrien Center
|
23
|
Miss Southwest Michigan
|
Piano Medley, "My Country, 'Tis of Thee," "Dixie," & "Yankee Doodle"
|
|
|
|
| 1975
|
Julie Ann Beckers[28]
|
Allegan
|
18
|
Miss Allegan County
|
Dance & Speech, "Zarathustra"
|
|
|
|
| 1974
|
Susan Lillian Short
|
Kalamazoo
|
23
|
Miss Heart of Michigan
|
Semi-classical Vocal, "Love Is Where You Find It"
|
|
|
|
| 1973
|
Sherry Agnello
|
St. Clair Shores
|
19
|
Miss St. Clair Shores
|
Vocal, "I'd Rather Be Blue"
|
|
|
|
| 1972
|
Terri Cousino
|
Erie
|
19
|
Miss Monroe County
|
Vocal, "How Can I Wait?"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 1971
|
Linda Susan Kish
|
Allen Park
|
19
|
Miss Taylor
|
Vocal, "As Long as He Needs Me"
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 1970
|
Ginger Myers
|
Lincoln Park
|
21
|
Miss Ann Arbor
|
Vocal, "Wicked Man"
|
|
|
|
| 1969
|
Sandra Gillespie
|
Hastings
|
20
|
Miss Michigan State University
|
|
Did not compete; later assumed the title after Eldred won Miss America 1970
|
| Pamela Eldred[29]
|
Birmingham[30]
|
21
|
Miss Detroit
|
Ballet, "Love Theme" from Romeo & Juliet
|
Winner[31]
|
|
|
| 1968
|
Darlene Kurant[30]
|
Muskegon
|
19
|
Miss Muskegon
|
Vocal, "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face"
|
|
|
|
| 1967
|
Toni Jo Abbenante
|
East Grand Rapids
|
19
|
Miss Michigan Junior College
|
Dramatic Reading, "Then You'll Remember Me" by Grace Atkinson
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 1966
|
Nancy Ackert[32]
|
Battle Creek
|
19
|
Miss Battle Creek
|
Vocal Medley from Annie Get Your Gun
|
|
|
Assumed title when original winner, Gayle Chancey, was disqualified prior to Miss America 1967 pageant[citation needed]
|
| 1965
|
Esther Lynne Smith
|
Portage
|
19
|
Miss Western Michigan University
|
Classical Vocal
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
Born Vlaardingen, Netherlands[citation needed]
|
| 1964
|
Sarah Jane Noble
|
East Lansing
|
18
|
Miss East Lansing
|
Free Exercise Routine
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 1963
|
Kathleen McLaughlin
|
Ishpeming
|
22
|
Miss Upper Michigan
|
Dramatic Presentation, "Western Star" by Stephen Vincent Benét
|
|
|
|
| 1962
|
Carole Van Valin
|
Roscommon
|
18
|
Miss Roscommon
|
Dramatic Reading, "Joe's Pal"
|
Top 10
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award[33]
|
|
| 1961
|
Karen Southway
|
Wyoming
|
18
|
Miss Wyoming
|
Vocal, "Someone to Watch Over Me"
|
|
|
|
| 1960
|
Donna Sheppard
|
|
18
|
Miss Dowagiac
|
|
Did not compete; later assumed the title after Fleming won Miss America 1961
|
| Nancy Fleming
|
Montague
|
18
|
Miss White Lake
|
Presentation of Dress Design
|
Winner[34]
|
Preliminary Swimsuit Award
Preliminary Talent Award (tie)
|
|
| 1959
|
Ann Penelope Marston
|
Wyandotte
|
21
|
Miss Detroit
|
Archery Demonstration
|
|
Preliminary Talent Award
|
|
| 1958
|
Patience Pierce
|
Detroit
|
|
Drama, "Meet Christobel"
|
|
|
|
| 1957
|
Valerie Strong
|
Williamsburg
|
|
Miss Williamsburg
|
Piano, "Brazil"
|
|
|
|
| 1956
|
Shirley Swanson
|
Muskegon
|
|
Miss Muskegon
|
Monologue
|
|
Non-finalist Talent Award
|
|
| 1955
|
Margaret Devereaux
|
Howell
|
|
Miss Howell
|
Piano, "Flight of the Bumblebee"
|
|
|
|
| 1954
|
Janice Hutton Somers
|
Lansing
|
|
Miss Lansing
|
Vocal, "You Made Me Love You"
|
4th runner-up
|
Preliminary Talent Award (tie)
|
Assumed the title after pageant officials reviewed the ballots and determined there was "an unusual pattern" in the judging[35][36]
|
| 1954
|
Grace Dryovage
|
Garden City
|
|
Miss Michigan
|
4th runner-up Miss America
|
|
|
| 1953
|
Velva Irene Robbins
|
Dowagiac
|
|
Miss Dowagiac
|
Speech, "Education"
|
|
|
|
| 1952
|
Karol Dragomir
|
Benton Harbor
|
|
Miss Benton Harbor
|
Vocal, "I'll Walk Alone"
|
|
|
Previously married to actor, Peter Palmer
|
| 1951
|
Delores Maria Berruezo
|
St. Clair Shores
|
|
Miss St. Clair Shores
|
Dance
|
|
|
First Latina Miss Michigan[citation needed]
|
| 1950
|
Bette Lou Pittman
|
Owosso
|
|
Miss Owosso
|
Monologue, "I Like Americans"
|
|
|
|
| 1949
|
Dolores Jane Motter
|
Dearborn
|
|
Miss Dearborn
|
Ceramic Exhibition & Piano
|
Top 15
|
|
|
| 1948
|
Doris Evelyn Johnson
|
Detroit
|
|
Miss Detroit
|
Vocal, "Worry, Worry, Worry"
|
Top 15
|
|
Multiple Michigan representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| Linda Carroll
|
Grand Rapids
|
|
Miss Michigan
|
Impersonations of famous people
|
|
|
| 1947
|
Jane Rose Foster
|
Detroit
|
|
Miss Detroit
|
Vocal, "My Dream Came True"
|
|
|
Multiple Michigan representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| Peggy Ellsworth
|
Reed City
|
|
Miss Michigan
|
Vocal, "He's Funny That Way"
|
|
|
| 1946
|
Constance Liddicoat
|
Detroit
|
|
Miss Detroit
|
|
|
|
Multiple Michigan representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| Ruth Margaret Lenfestey
|
New Baltimore
|
20
|
Miss Michigan
|
|
|
|
| 1945
|
Barbara Lee Smith
|
Detroit
|
|
Miss Detroit
|
|
|
|
Multiple Michigan representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| Therese Mary Sullivan
|
|
Miss Michigan
|
|
|
|
| 1944
|
Iora June Victor
|
|
Miss Detroit
|
Vocal, "Goodnight, Wherever You Are"
|
|
|
Grandmother of Miss Michigan 2007 and Miss America 2008, Kirsten Haglund[24]
|
| Beverly Bennett
|
Detroit
|
|
Miss Michigan
|
Vocal, "Stormy Weather"
|
Top 12
|
|
Multiple Michigan representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| 1943
|
Ruby Jean Telfer
|
Detroit
|
|
Miss Detroit
|
|
|
|
|
| 1942
|
Patricia Hill
|
Detroit
|
|
Miss Detroit
|
Comedic Recitation
|
2nd runner-up
|
|
|
| 1941
|
Gerry Marcoux
|
Detroit
|
|
Miss Detroit
|
|
Top 15
|
|
|
| 1940
|
Monnie Drake
|
Detroit
|
|
Miss Detroit
|
Vocal, "Bill"
|
2nd runner-up
|
Preliminary Talent Award (tie)
|
|
| 1939
|
Patricia Donnelly
|
Detroit
|
19
|
Miss Detroit
|
Vocal / Bass Fiddle, "To You" & "Ol' Man Mose"
|
Winner[37]
|
|
|
| 1938
|
Marjorie Jackson
|
Detroit
|
|
Miss Detroit
|
|
|
|
Competed under local title at national pageant
|
| 1937
|
No Michigan representative at Miss America pageant[38]
|
| 1936
|
June Ursula Forbes
|
Flint
|
|
Miss Flint
|
|
|
|
Competed under local title at national pageant
|
| 1935
|
No Michigan representative at Miss America pageant[39]
|
| 1934
|
No national pageant was held[40]
|
| 1933
|
Barbara Strand
|
|
|
|
|
Top 18
|
|
|
| 1932
|
No national pageants were held[40]
|
| 1931
|
| 1930
|
| 1929
|
Loraine Budge McVey[citation needed]
|
|
|
|
|
N/A
|
No national Miss America pageant held[40]
|
| 1928
|
No national pageant was held[40]
|
| 1927
|
Charlotte Jane Lowe
|
|
|
Miss Battle Creek
|
N/A[41]
|
Top 15
|
|
Multiple Michigan representatives
Competed under local title at national pageant
|
| Ruth Bushroe
|
|
|
Miss Flint
|
|
|
| Florence Nina Clement
|
|
|
Miss Kalamazoo
|
|
|
| Margherite Strang
|
|
|
Miss Lansing
|
|
|
| Margaret Tinney
|
|
|
Miss Pontiac
|
|
|
| Charlotte Elaine Bowman
|
|
|
Miss Saginaw
|
|
|
| 1926
|
Gertrude Fisher
|
|
|
Miss Battle Creek
|
|
|
Multiple Michigan representatives
Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| Ruth Mae Fowler
|
|
|
Miss Detroit
|
|
|
| Joyce Jean Hurd
|
|
|
Miss Lansing
|
Top 15
|
|
| 1925
|
Jane Porter[citation needed]
|
|
|
Miss Detroit
|
Top 15[citation needed]
|
|
Competed under local title at Miss America pageant
|
| 1924
|
No Michigan representative at Miss America pageant[42]
|
| 1923
|
M. Beth Madson[43]
|
Detroit
|
|
Miss Detroit
|
N/A[41]
|
|
|
Competed under local title at national pageant
|
| 1922
|
M. Beth Madson[44]
|
|
|
Evening Dress Award Second Prize[45]
|
| 1921
|
No Michigan representative at Miss America pageant[46]
|
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