| Miss Alaska | |
| Type: | Beauty pageant |
| Headquarters: | Anchorage |
| Location: | Alaska |
| Membership: | Miss America |
| Language: | English |
| Website: | Official website |
The Miss Alaska competition is a scholarship pageant that selects the representative for the state of Alaska in the Miss America pageant. Unlike most state-level pageants in the Miss America system, Alaska allows any eligible woman to enter the Miss Alaska pageant without first having to win a local qualifying pageant. Emma Broyles was crowned Miss America 2022 on December 16, 2021. She is the first woman from Alaska to win the title, and only the third woman from Alaska to place at Miss America. [1]
Jordan Naylor of Anchorage was crowned Miss Alaska 2024 at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts in Anchorage, Alaska on June 6, 2024. She will represent Alaska and compete for Miss America 2025.
The following is a visual summary of the past results of Miss Alaska titleholders at the national Miss America pageants/competitions. The year in parentheses indicates the year of the national competition during which a placement and/or award was garnered, not the year attached to the contestant's state title.
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age | Local Title | Miss America Talent | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Jordan Naylor | Anchorage | 26 | Miss Cook Inlet | TBA | TBA | Previously Miss Alaska's Outstanding Teen 2012Previously Miss Alaska USA 2023 | |
| 2023 | Hannah Utic | 22 | Miss Anchorage | Piano/Vocal | ||||
| 2022 | Jessica Reisinger | 23 | Acrobatic Dance | Women in STEM Finalist | Doctoral Student at the University of Washington | |||
| 2021 | Elle Adkins | Eagle River | 22 | Miss Girdwood | Acrobatic Dance | colspan=3 align="center" | ||
| Second Runner Up at Miss Alaska 2019 Daughter of Holly Salo Adkins, Miss Alaska 1990 Previously Miss Alaska's Outstanding Teen 2015 | ||||||||
| Emma Broyles[2] | Anchorage | 19 | Vocal, "Show Off" from The Drowsy Chaperone | Miss America 2022 | Preliminary Social Impact PitchCharles and Theresa Brown Scholarship | Previously Miss Alaska's Outstanding Teen 2017[3] Previously Distinguished Young Woman of Alaska 2019. | ||
| 2019–20 | Maile Johnston[4] | Eagle River | 19 | Miss Anchorage | Dance | |||
| 2018 | Courtney Schuman[5] | Anchorage | 24 | Original Speech | Later Miss Alaska USA 2022 | |||
| 2017 | Angelina Klapperich[6] [7] | Wasilla | 23 | Miss Anchorage | Piano, "Bumble Boogie" | Top 15[8] | Miss Congeniality[9] | Previously Miss Alaska's Outstanding Teen 2010[10] Contestant at National Sweetheart 2013 pageant[11] |
| 2016 | Kendall Bautista[12] | Eagle River | 23 | Miss Cook Inlet | Piano, “Tarantelle” by Frédéric Chopin | Previously Miss Alaska USA 2014[13] | ||
| 2015 | Zoey Grenier[14] | Anchorage | 19 | Vocal, "Shy" from Once Upon a Mattress | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2014 pageant[15] | |||
| 2014 | Malie Delgado[16] | 19 | Vocal, "Mercy on Me" by Christina Aguilera | Charles & Theresa Brown Scholarship[17] | Contestant on The Price is Right and The X Factor | |||
| 2013 | Michelle Taylor[18] | 20 | Piano, "Fantaisie-Impromptu" & "Maple Leaf Rag" | |||||
| 2012 | Debbe Ebben | Eagle River | 23 | Miss Chugiak/Eagle River[19] | Piano, "Requiem for a Dream" | Known for shaving her head for charity 3 months before winning Miss Alaska title[20] [21] [22] [23] [24] | ||
| 2011 | Katy Lovegreen[25] | Anchorage | 21 | Miss Forget-me-not | Irish Dance | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2010 pageant[26] | ||
| 2010 | Abby Hancock[27] | 23 | Miss Anchorage | Piano, "Bohemian Rhapsody" | ||||
| 2009 | Sydnee Waggoner[28] | 23 | Classical Vocal, "Je veux vivre" from Roméo et Juliette | |||||
| 2008 | Stephany Jeffers[29] | Chugiak | 23 | Miss Birchwood | Vocal | Charles and Theresa Brown Scholarship | ||
| 2007 | Cari Makanani Villareal Leyva[30] | Anchorage | 23 | Vocal, "Habanera" from Carmen | Previously Miss Alaska USA 2004[31] | |||
| 2006 | Stephanie Wonchala[32] | Eagle River | 21 | Miss Chugiak/Eagle River | Piano, "Ballade pour Adeline" | |||
| 2005 | Rebecca Hayes | Anchorage | 24 | Miss Anchorage | Ballet en Pointe, "Take Five" | |||
| 2004 | Christina Reasner | Sterling | 22 | Vocal, "This Is the Moment" | ||||
| 2003 | Blair Chenoweth | Anchorage | 21 | Ballet en Pointe, "All That Jazz" | Later Miss Alaska USA 2007 | |||
| 2002 | Peggy Willman | 23 | Miss North Star | Alaskan Native Dance | ||||
| 2001 | Eugenia Primis | Eagle River | 20 | Miss South Central | Classical Cello, "Allegro Appassionata" | Charles and Theresa Brown Scholarship | ||
| 2000 | Audrey Solomon | Anchorage | 21 | Miss University Center | Classical Violin, "Csárdás" | Bert Parks Talent Award Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1999 | Shannon Kelly | Palmer | 21 | Miss South Central | Flute, "Carnival of Venice" | |||
| 1998 | Joslyn Tinker[33] | Soldotna | 22 | Miss Alyeska | Classical Vocal, "Adele's Laughing Song" from Die Fledermaus | Top 10 | Charles and Theresa Brown Scholarship Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award | |
| 1997 | Michelle Titus | Fairbanks | 19 | Vocal, "There Is a Savior" | ||||
| 1996 | Christine Buschur | Eagle River | 21 | Miss Cook Inlet | Vocal Medley, "Another Op'nin, Another Show" & "I've Got Rhythm" | |||
| 1995 | Stacey Storey | 17 | Miss Chugiak/Eagle River | Lyrical Dance, "The Letting Go" | Later Miss Alaska USA 2003[34] | |||
| 1994 | Patricia Marlow | 24 | Miss Anchorage | Vocal, "If We Were In Love" | ||||
| 1993 | Rebecca Nyboer | Anchorage | 22 | Miss Alyeska | Classical Piano, "Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1992 | Keri Baumgardner | Eagle River | 25 | Miss Anchorage | Vocal, "Come Rain or Come Shine" | |||
| 1991 | Beth Gustafson | Palmer | 20 | Miss Denali | Piano, "Rhapsody in Blue" | Natural White's Smile of Confidence Scholarship | ||
| 1990 | Holly Salo | Kenai | 24 | Miss Mat-Su Valley | Vocal, "More" from Dick Tracy | Mother of Miss Alaska 2021 and Miss Alaska's Outstanding Teen 2015, Elle Adkins[35] | ||
| 1989 | Christine McCubbins | 25 | Miss Denali | Vocal | ||||
| 1988 | Launa Middaugh | Wasilla | 19 | Miss South Central | Piano Solo | |||
| 1987 | Teresa Murton | Anchorage | 25 | Miss Anchorage | Vocal, "Battle Hymn of the Republic" | |||
| 1986 | Jerri Morrison | 22 | Miss Northern Lights | Tap Dance | ||||
| 1985 | Kristina Christopher-Taylor | Palmer | 20 | Miss Talkeetna | Comedy Monologue | |||
| 1984 | Maryline Blackburn | Anchorage | 23 | Miss South Central | Vocal, "I Am What I Am" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1983 | Jennifer Smith | Soldotna | 19 | Miss Soldotna | Vocal, "Le Jazz Hot!" from Victor Victoria | |||
| 1982 | Kristan Sapp | Wasilla | 20 | Miss South Central | Sac-Jazz Dance | |||
| 1981 | Laura Trollan | Juneau | 19 | Miss Juneau | Ballet / Jazz Dance, "Most Wanted" | |||
| 1980 | Sandra Lashbrook | Eagle River | 21 | Miss Chugiak-Eagle River | Guitar & Vocal, "Snowbird" | |||
| 1979 | Lila Oberg | Palmer | 19 | Miss Willow Area | Vocal, "For Once in My Life" | |||
| 1978 | Patty-Jo Gentry | Valdez | 22 | Miss Fairbanks | Dramatic Monologue, "Marie Antoinette" | |||
| 1977 | Lisa Granath | Kenai | 18 | Miss Greater Kenai | Modern Ballet, "A Spoonful of Sugar" & "Every Day's a Holiday" | |||
| 1976 | Kathy Tebow | Anchorage | 19 | Miss Anchorage | Violin Solo, "Méditation" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1975 | Cindy Suryan | Kodiak | 20 | Miss Kodiak | Popular Vocal & Guitar, "For Baby" | |||
| 1974 | Darby Moore | Kenai | 20 | Miss Kenai | Ventriloquism, "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" | Assumed title when Tomicek resigned | ||
| Vicki Tomicek | N/A | Was crowned Miss Alaska 1974 but withdrew for personal reasons | ||||||
| 1973 | Virginia Adams | Anchorage | 21 | Miss Anchorage | Classical Vocal, "Adele's Laughing Song" | |||
| 1972 | Deborah Wood | N/A | Placed 1st runner-up at Miss Alaska and replaced Linda Hogue | |||||
| Linda Hogue | Kodiak | 18 | Miss Kodiak | Modern Dance, "Charlie Chaplin Pantomime" | Neat as a Pin Award | |||
| 1971 | Linda Smith | Anchorage | 19 | Miss Elmendorf Air Force Base | Dramatic Interpretation, "The Seagull" | Special Judge's Award | ||
| 1970 | Virginia Walker | Kotzebue | 19 | Miss Kotzebue/Arctic Circle | Original Poem, "My Wonderland" | Special Judge's Award Neat as a Pin Award | First Miss America contestant from the Arctic Circle | |
| 1969 | Gwenn Gregg | Anchorage | 18 | Miss Northern Lights | Art & Poetry Interpretation, "The Wonder of Color" | |||
| 1968 | Jane Haycraft | Fairbanks | 18 | Miss Greater Fairbanks Area | Popular Vocal, "Walking Happy" | |||
| 1967 | Penny Thomasson | Spenard | 19 | Miss Big Lake | Recitation & Song, "Let's Go to Alaska" | |||
| 1966 | Nancy Lorell Wellman | Fairbanks | 21 | Miss Greater Fairbanks Area | Popular Vocal | |||
| 1965 | Mary Ruth Nidiffer | Anchorage | 21 | Miss Alaska Methodist University | Popular Vocal, "Typically English" | |||
| 1964 | Karol Hommon | 20 | Acrobatic & Modern Jazz Dance | Non-finalist Talent Award | Died in October 1965, after falling from Mount Sugarloaf (Massachusetts)[36] | |||
| 1963 | Colleen Kendall | Miss Alaska State Fair | Popular Vocal | |||||
| 1962 | Mary Dee Fox | 18 | Miss Greater Anchorage | Original Modern Skit | ||||
| 1961 | Jean Ann Holm | Fairbanks | 19 | Miss Fairbanks | Monologue combined with Modeling | |||
| 1960 | June Bowdish | Anchorage | 22 | Dramatic Monologue from "St. Joan" | ||||
| 1959 | Alansa Carr | Ketchikan | 20 | Dramatic Reading | ||||
| 1958 | Stuart Johnson[37] | Douglas City | 19 | Piano, "Alaska's Flag" | First Miss Alaska[38] | |||
| 1951-1957 | No Alaska representative at Miss America pageant | |||||||
| 1950 | Maxine Cothern | Fairbanks | Speech, "Alaska" | |||||
| 1935-1949 | No Alaska representative at Miss America pageant[39] | |||||||
| 1934 | No national pageant was held[40] | |||||||
| 1933 | No Alaska representative at Miss America pageant[41] | |||||||
| 1932 | No national pageants were held | |||||||
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| 1924–1927 | No Alaska representative at Miss America pageant[42] [43] [44] [45] | |||||||
| 1923 | Helmar Liederman[46] | New York City | 24 | [47] | Disqualified from Miss America 1923 pageant because she was married (despite there being no eligibility rules against this)[48] | |||
| 1922 | Helmar Liederman[49] | 23 | ||||||
| 1921 | No Alaska representative at Miss America pageant[50] | |||||||