Miss South Carolina

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The Miss South Carolina competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of South Carolina in the Miss America pageant. The pageant was first held in Myrtle Beach and moved to Greenville starting in 1958 and remained in that city until the 1990s. Spartanburg hosted the pageant in a few different venues until new leadership took over the organization and moved the pageant to Columbia, SC in 2011. The pageant was televised since the 1960s until the 1998 pageant. Televising was resumed with the 2000 pageant through 2006. The pageant returned to television in 2014.[1]

Two South Carolina women have become Miss America: Marian McKnight of Manning in 1957 and Kimberly Aiken of Columbia in 1994. Six more have been first runners-up at the national competition and another thirteen have placed in the Top Ten. The Miss South Carolina organization is the leading state pageant in the nation in scholarship money raised for young women- surpassing many much larger states.

Lindsay Jones of Charleston was crowned Miss South Carolina on June 20, 2026, at Township Auditorium in Columbia, South Carolina. She will compete for the title of Miss America 2027.

Results summary

The following is a visual summary of the past results of Miss South Carolina 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.

Placements

  • Miss Americas:Marian McKnight (1957), Kimberly Clarice Aiken (1994)
  • 1st runners-up: Claudia Turner (1971), Lavinia Cox (1977), Sherry Thrift (1986), Mary Gainey (1991), Ali Rogers (2013), Rachel Wyatt (2017)
  • 2nd runners-up: Rankin Suber (1955), Catherine Hinson (1978), Dawn Smith (1987)
  • 3rd runners-up: Evelyn Ellis (1963)
  • 4th runners-up: N/A
  • Top 7:Daja Dial (2016)
  • Top 10: Joyce Perry (1952), Mary Griffin (1953), Miriam Stevenson (1954), Edith Sandra Browning (1961), Nancy Moore (1966), Cynthia Anthony (1976), Carrie Lee Davis (1993), Erika Grace Powell (2006), Suzi Roberts (2018)
  • Top 11: Davis Wash (2025)
  • Top 12:Bree Boyce (2012)
  • Top 15: Mary Claudia Harvin (1927), LaBruce Sherill (1940), Kelly McCorkle (2003)
  • Top 16: Crystal Garrett (2008)
  • Top 20: Jeanna Raney (2002)

Awards

Preliminary awards

Non-finalist awards

  • Non-finalist Talent: Margaret Seible (1945), Gene Wilson (1959), Mary Diane Toole (1979), Julia Hill (1983), Amanda Spivey (1996), Janet Powers (1998), Heather Hudson (2001), Jessica Eddins (2004), Shelley Bryson Benthall (2007), Anna Perry (2009)

Other awards

  • Miss Congeniality: Brooke Mosteller (2014) (tie)
  • Active International Scholarship for Business and Marketing: Jeanna Raney (2002)
  • Bernie Wayne Performing Arts Scholarship: Erika Grace Powell (2006)
  • Children's Miracle Network (CMN) Miracle Maker Award: Brooke Mosteller (2014), Lanie Hudson (2015), Suzi Roberts (2018), Davia Bunch (2019), Morgan Nichols (2020)
  • CMN Miracle Maker Award 1st runners-up: Rachel Wyatt (2017)
  • George Cavalier Talent Award:Kimilee Bryant (1990)
  • Quality of Life Award / Social Impact Initiative Scholarship 1st runners-up: Brooke Mosteller (2014), Morgan Nichols (2020), Sarah Kay Wrenn (2026)
  • Quality of Life Award 2nd runners-up: Suzi Roberts (2018)
  • STEM Scholarship Award Winners: Morgan Nichols (2020)
  • Top Fundraiser: Julia Herrin (2022)
  • AHA Go Red for Women Leadership Award Overall Winner: Sarah Kay Wrenn (2026)

Winners

  •   Declared as winner
  •   Ended as a runner-up
  •   Ended as a finalist or semi-finalist
YearNameHometownAgeLocal TitleMiss America TalentPlacement at Miss AmericaSpecial scholarships at Miss AmericaNotes
2026Lindsay JonesCharleston26Miss CharlestonHER StoryTBDTBD
2025Sarah Kay WrennColumbia24Miss Lake MurrayLyrical DanceQuality of Life 1st Runner-UpAHA Go Red for Women Leadership Award Overall WinnerPreviously Top 10 at Miss South Carolina 2024 as Miss Greenville County, Top 10 at Miss South Carolina 2023 as Miss Capital City, and 3rd Runner-Up at Miss South Carolina 2022 as Miss Greenville County; also previously Top 10 at Miss South Carolina Teen 2017 as Miss Greater Easley Teen and Top 10 at Miss South Carolina Teen 2018 as Miss Spartanburg Teen
2024Davis WashEdgefield23Miss ClemsonVocalTop 11Previously 1st Runner-Up at Miss South Carolina 2023 as Miss Greater Carolina
2023Jada SamuelGreenville26Miss Bridge CityHERstoryPreviously 2nd Runner-Up at Miss South Carolina 2022 as Miss Columbia
2022Jill DudleyMyrtle Beach23Miss HartsvilleVocal
2021Julia Herrin[2]Bluffton19Miss ClarendonPianoTop Fundraiser 1st Place
2019–20Morgan Nichols[3]Lexington22Miss ClemsonVocal, “Bridge Over Troubled Water"CMN Miracle Maker Award[4]Social Impact Initiative Scholarship Award 1st runner-up[4]STEM Scholarship Award[4]
2018Davia Bunch[5][6]Spartanburg21Miss SpartanburgBallet en Pointe, "Feel it Still" by Portugal The ManCMN Miracle Maker Award4th runner-up at Miss South Carolina USA 2020 and 2022 competitionsLater a contestant on season 27 of The Bachelor
2017Suzi Roberts[7]Pawleys Island23Miss ColumbiaLyrical Dance, "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" by Katie ThompsonTop 10[8]CMN Miracle Maker Award[9]Quality of Life Award 2nd runner-up[10]Former NFL cheerleader for the Atlanta Falcons[11]
2016Rachel Wyatt[12]Piedmont21Miss ClemsonDance, "Something in the Water"[13]1st runner-up[13]CMN Miracle Maker Award 1st runner-up[14]Previously Miss South Carolina Teen 2012 and Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2013[12]Current NFL cheerleader for the Dallas Cowboys[15]
2015Daja Dial[16]Spartanburg22Miss Greenville CountyVocal, "I Believe"Top 7Preliminary Swimsuit Award[17]
2014Lanie Hudson[18][19]Spartanburg23Miss AndersonClogging, "Think"CMN Miracle Maker AwardCompeted on America's Got Talent
2013Brooke Mosteller[20]Mount Pleasant24Miss Mount PleasantVocal, "Hallelujah"Miss Congeniality (tie)[21]Quality of Life Award 1st runner-up[21]CMN Miracle Maker Award[21]Winner of Miss Congeniality at both Miss South Carolina 2013 and Miss America 2014 pageants[21]
2012Ali Rogers[22]Laurens20Miss Laurens CountyPiano, "I Want You Back"1st runner-up[23]Preliminary Swimsuit AwardPreviously Miss South Carolina Teen 2009Top 10 at Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2010 pageant[24]
2011Bree Boyce[25]Florence22Miss Capital CityClassical Vocal, "Tu Tu Piccolo Iddio" from Madama ButterflyTop 12
2010Desiree Puglia[26]Simpsonville22Miss PendletonA Capella Tap Dance
2009Kelly Sloan[27]Gray Court24Miss HartsvilleVocal, "For Once in My Life"
2008Anna Perry[28]Florence23Miss LexingtonPiano, "Rhapsody in Blue"Non-finalist Talent AwardDaughter of Miss South Carolina 1982, Julia Hill[29]
2007Crystal Garrett[30]Columbia21Miss CharlestonVocal, "As If We Never Said Goodbye" from Sunset BoulevardTop 16
2006Shelley Bryson Benthall[31]Florence21Miss FlorenceVocal, "A Broken Wing"Non-finalist Talent AwardPreviously Miss South Carolina Teen 2003[31]First Miss South Carolina Teen to be crowned Miss South Carolina[31]
2005Erika Grace Powell[32]Easley20Miss Golden CornerClassical Vocal, "Time to Say Goodbye"Top 10Preliminary Talent AwardBernie Wayne Performing Arts ScholarshipFormer nanny for Hugh Jackman's children[33]Later Miss South Carolina USA 2012Top 16 at Miss USA 2012 pageant[33]
2004Ann Ashley Wood[34]Spartanburg23Miss CharlestonLyrical Dance, "You Raise Me Up"Never received $25,000 in scholarship winnings from the Miss South Carolina Organization[35][36]
2003Jessica Eddins[37]Irmo24Miss North CharlestonSemi-classical Vocal, "And This Is My Beloved"Non-finalist Talent Award
2002Kelly McCorkle[38]Greenville23Miss Golden CornerLyrical Ballet, "I Believe"Top 15Half-sister of Miss South Carolina Teen 2008, Courtney Cisson[39]Contestant on The Amazing Race 7 with then boyfriend, Ron Young[40]
2001Jeanna Raney[41]Inman20Miss Greater GreerTap Dance, "Kiss Me"Top 20Active International Scholarship for Business and Marketing
2000Heather Hudson[42]Lexington22Miss TigertownClassical Vocal, "Il Bacio" by Luigi ArditiNon-finalist Talent AwardPreviously South Carolina's Junior Miss 1996
1999Danielle Davis[43]Greer18Miss Greater Greer[43]Vocal, "I Wanna Fall in Love"
1998Wendy Willis[44]Fountain Inn24Miss CamdenVocal, "Operator" by The Manhattan TransferPreviously Miss Clemson University in 1993-94.
1997Janet Powers[45]Hartsville21Miss Southern 500Vocal Medley, "Go Tell It on the Mountain," "Gonna Build a Mountain," & "Ain't No Mountain High Enough"Non-finalist Talent Award
1996Angela Hughes[46]Anderson21Miss Anderson CountyTap Dance, "Sing, Sing, Sing"Later Mrs. South Carolina America 2005 under her married name, Angela Hughes-Singleton[47]
1995Amanda Spivey[48]Boiling Springs22Miss Southern 500Soprano saxophone, "The Joy of Life"Non-finalist Talent Award
1994Kristie Greene[44]Greenville24Miss BereaComedy Vocal, "Exactly Like Me"
1993Tonya Helms[49]24[49]Miss Greater GreerDid not compete; later assumed title after Aiken won Miss America 1994[49]
Kimberly Clarice Aiken[50]Columbia18Miss ColumbiaVocal, "Summertime"Winner[50]First African American to be crowned Miss South Carolina[50]Named one of People Magazine's "Fifty Most Beautiful People in the World" in 1994[50]
1992Carrie Lee Davis[51]Greenville26Miss GreenvilleMarimba, "Csárdás"Top 10Preliminary Swimsuit AwardPostponed her medical school residency after being crowned[51]Later sued the pageant and settled without terms being publicly disclosed[35]
1991Ronnetta Hatcher[44]Columbia26Miss ColumbiaPercussionLater Mrs. South Carolina 2015 under her married name, Ronnetta Hatcher Griffin[52]
1990Mary Gainey[44]Hartsville24Miss LibertyMarimba, "Scherzo for Marimba in C"1st runner-up
1989Kimilee Bryant[44]Greenville23Miss BereaClassical Vocal, "Je Suis Titania" from MignonPreliminary Talent Award George Cavalier Talent AwardBroadway actress and opera singer[53]
1988Anna Graham Reynolds[54]Greenwood23Miss GreenwoodVocal, "Mack the Knife"Daughter of Miss South Carolina 1957, Cecilia Colvert[55]
1987Nancy Humphries[56]Myrtle Beach21Miss Myrtle BeachPiano, "The Stars and Stripes Forever"Preliminary Swimsuit Award[56]Former co-host of Access Hollywood[57]Current co-anchor on Entertainment Tonight[58]
1986Dawn Smith[59]Columbia22Miss LibertyClassical Vocal, "Je Veux Vivre" from Roméo et Juliette2nd runner-upPreliminary Swimsuit AwardDawn Smith's younger sister Shari was abducted and murdered by Larry Gene Bell a year prior to Dawn's crowning as Miss South Carolina. Events were later broadcast as television dramas.[60][61][62]Won "Miss Pageant Rewind" on What Not to Wear against two fellow pageant contestants
1985Sherry Thrift[63]Westminster23Miss LibertyClogging, "Are You From Dixie?"1st runner-upPreviously South Carolina's Junior Miss 1980
1984Vicki Harrell[44]Columbia22Miss University of South CarolinaPiano
1983Dalia Garcia[64]21Miss South CongareeVocal, "Don't Cry for Me Argentina"
1982Julia Hill[29]Florence26Miss Duncan-Lyman-WellfordClassical Piano, "Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, 3rd Movement"Non-finalist Talent AwardMother of Miss South Carolina 2008, Anna Perry[29]
1981Jill Rankin[65]Columbia21Miss Columbia NortheastFigure Skating, "Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major"
1980Donna Jewell[66][67]19Miss Cayce-West ColumbiaVocal, "Have I Stayed Too Long at the Fair?"
1979Jane Jenkins[68]Johns Island23Miss CharlestonVocal Medley, "The Party's Over" & "Send in the Clowns"Author of Bare Feet to High Heels,What Ta Tas Teach Us, and "Bury Me with My Pearls"[68]
1978Mary Diane Toole[69]Aiken17Miss Aiken CountyBallet, "Pas de Quatre"Non-finalist Talent Award
1977Catherine Hinson[44]Rock Hill22Miss Rock HillSaxophone Medley, "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" & "Flight '76" by Walter Murphy2nd runner-upPreliminary Swimsuit Award
1976Lavinia Cox[70]Latta23Piano Medley, "The Man I Love" & "Sunny"1st runner-upPreliminary Swimsuit Award
1975Cynthia Anthony[44]West Columbia22Miss LexingtonClassical Vocal, "Chacun le Sait" from La fille du régimentTop 10
1974Cheryl Von Lehe[71]Charleston18Miss CharlestonVocal, "Oh Babe, What Would You Say?"
1973Fran Riggins[71][72]Easley21Miss EasleyVocal, "All the Things You Are"
1972Bonnie Corder[73]Columbia21Miss ColumbiaVocal Medley, "My Man's Gone Now," "Let Me Sing," & "I'm Happy"
1971Pamela Inabinet[44]Swansea21Tap Dance, "Puttin' on the Ritz"Featured performer on the Miss America 1973 telecast
1970Claudia Carmen Turner[74]Spartanburg19Miss SpartanburgVocal, "Once Upon a Time"1st runner-upPreliminary Swimsuit AwardClaudia Carmen Turner Wells Bauman, died at 71 on September 24, 2021, in South Carolina.
1969Brantlee Price[75]Newberry19Miss NewberryVocal, "Got A Lot O' Living To Do"
1968Rebecca Smith[44]Clover19Miss CloverSemi-classical Vocal, "America the Beautiful"
1967Peggy White[76]Fountain Inn23Miss LaurensOrgan Medley, "Spanish Flea" & "Flight of the Bumblebee"
1966Barbara Harris[77]Simpsonville21Miss ColumbiaClassical Vocal, "Adele's Laughing Song" from Die FledermausPreliminary Swimsuit AwardToured with Miss America USO Troupe[77]Former Mayor of Morris Township, New Jersey
1965Nancy Moore[78]Aiken18Miss AikenPiano, "Variations on There She Is"Top 10Preliminary Talent AwardLater married US Senator, Strom Thurmond, who was 44 years her senior, in 1968[78]
1964Sue Smith[79]Florence20Miss FlorenceVocal Medley
1963Carolyn Gaines[79]North Augusta19Miss North AugustaPopular Vocal
1962Evelyn Ellis[80]Greenville19Miss ColumbiaInterpretive Dance, "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" & "Gigi"3rd runner-upPreviously South Carolina's Junior Miss 1961
1961Janet McGee[81]Greenville20Miss GreenvilleVocal, "Ave Maria"
1960Edith Sandra Browning[82]Greenwood19Miss GreenwoodComic Dance / Pantomime, "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like my Sister Kate"Top 10Preliminary Swimsuit Award[82]
1959Nettie Dennis[83]Moncks Corner19Miss Moncks CornerVocal
1958Gene Wilson[84]Charleston18Miss CharlestonVocal, "If I Loved You"Non-finalist Talent award
1957Cecelia Ann Colvert[55]Greenwood19Miss ColumbiaPantomime / Vocal, "C'est si bon" by Eartha KittMother of Miss South Carolina 1988, Anna Graham Reynolds[55]
1956Marian McKnight[85]Manning19Miss ManningComedy Sketch, "The Monroe Doctrine"Winner[86]
1955Martha Chestnut[87]ConwayMiss ConwayPiano
1954Polly Rankin Suber[88]Whitmire19Miss WhitmireMonologue, "Air Corps"2nd runner-upPreliminary Swimsuit Award
1953Miriam Stevenson[89]Winnsboro20Miss GreenwoodTap DanceTop 10Later Miss South Carolina USA 1954, Miss USA 1954, and Miss Universe 1954[90][91]First Miss USA to be crowned Miss Universe[91]
1952Mary Griffin[92]FlorenceMiss FlorenceClassical VocalTop 101st runner-up at the Miss USA 1953 pageant, representing Myrtle Beach5th runner-up at Miss World 1953 pageant, representing the United States
1951Joyce Perry[93]ConwayMiss ConwayComedy Vocal, "Sewing Machine"Top 10
1950Carolyn Fowler[94]Lyman17Miss LymanVocal, "Why Don't You Fall In Love With Me"[94]
1949Barrie Wingard[95]ColumbiaMiss ClintonDied on April 24, 1952, after her car was struck by a drunk driver[95]
1948Esther Greene[44]GreenvilleMiss Greenville
1947Margaret Griffin[44]SpartanburgMiss SpartanburgClassical Vocal
1946Anne Mae Morse[96]Miss Columbia
1945Margaret "Lou-Seible" Neeley[97]ColumbiaDrama, "Life with a Southern Mammy on an Old Plantation"Non-finalist Talent Award
1944Gloria Mae Grisso[98]Multiple South Carolina representativesContestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
Virginia Owens[97]Miss South Carolina
1943Sarah Nina Harvin[98]Miss ColumbiaMultiple South Carolina representativesContestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
Jenelle Virginia Strange[97]Miss South Carolina
1942Virginia Pulliam[99]Miss ColumbiaMultiple South Carolina representativesContestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
Nelle Xermenia Owens[99]Miss South CarolinaDance
1941Miriam King[100]CharlestonMiss CharlestonMultiple South Carolina representativesContestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
Gloria Frances Missel[101]Miss South CarolinaVocal, "My Heart Belongs to Daddy"
1940LaBruce Sherill[102]Myrtle BeachMiss Myrtle BeachTap Dance, "Cocktails for Two"Top 15Preliminary Talent AwardMultiple South Carolina representativesContestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
Vanadora Baker[103]DillonMiss South CarolinaRecitation
1939Mary Eleanor Parish[104]Myrtle BeachMiss Myrtle BeachMultiple South Carolina representativesContestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
Margaret Allan Shealy[104]ClintonMiss South CarolinaVocal, "Especially For You"
1938Margaret Simrill Land[44]ChesterMiss Camden
1937Wayring Smathers[105]ColumbiaMiss Columbia
1936No South Carolina representative at Miss America pageant[106][107]
1935
1934No national pageant was held[108]
1933No South Carolina representative at Miss America pageant[109]
1932No national pageants were held[108]
1931
1930
1929
1928
1927Mary Claudia Harvin[110]CharlestonMiss CharlestonTop 15No Miss South CarolinaContestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant
1926Dorothy Brickman[111]CharlestonMiss Charleston
1925No South Carolina representative at Miss America pageant[112][113][114][115][116]
1924
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1921

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