Year Name Hometown Age Local Title Miss America Talent Placement at Miss America Special scholarships at Miss America Notes2023 Jada SamuelGreenville26Miss Bridge City HERstory2022Jill DudleyMyrtle Beach23Miss HartsvilleVocal2021Julia HerrinBluffton19Miss ClarendonPianoTop Fundraiser 1st Place2019–20Morgan NicholsLexington22Miss ClemsonVocal, “Bridge Over Troubled Water" CMN Miracle Maker AwardSocial Impact Initiative Scholarship Award 1st runner up Spartanburg 21 Miss Spartanburg Ballet 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 Bachelor2017Suzi Roberts Pawleys Island 23 Miss Columbia Lyrical Dance, "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" by Katie Thompson Top 10 CMN Miracle Maker AwardQuality of Life Award 2nd runner up Former NFL cheerleader for the Atlanta Falcons2016 Rachel Wyatt Piedmont 21 Miss Clemson Dance, "Something in the Water" 1st runner up Previously Miss South Carolina Teen 2012 and Miss America's Outstanding Teen 20132015 Daja Dial Spartanburg 22 Miss Greenville County Vocal, "I Believe" Top 7 Preliminary Swimsuit Award 2014 Lanie Hudson Spartanburg 23 Miss Anderson Clogging, "Think" CMN Miracle Maker Award Competed on America's Got Talent2013 Brooke Mosteller Mount Pleasant 24 Miss Mount Pleasant Vocal, "Hallelujah" Miss Congeniality (tie)Quality of Life Award 1st runner up Laurens 20 Miss Laurens County Piano, "I Want You Back" 1st runner up Preliminary Swimsuit Award Previously Miss South Carolina Teen 2009Top 10 at Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2010 pageant2011 Bree Boyce Florence 22 Miss Capital City Classical Vocal, "Tu Tu Piccolo Iddio" from Madama Butterfly Top 122010 Desiree Puglia Simpsonville 22 Miss Pendleton A Capella Tap Dance2009 Kelly Sloan Gray Court 24 Miss Hartsville Vocal, "For Once in My Life"2008 Anna Perry Florence 23 Miss Lexington Piano, "Rhapsody in Blue" Non finalist Talent Award Daughter of Miss South Carolina 1982, Julia Hill2007 Crystal Garrett Columbia 21 Miss Charleston Vocal, "As If We Never Said Goodbye" from Sunset Boulevard Top 162006 Shelley Bryson Benthall Florence 21 Miss Florence Vocal, "A Broken Wing" Non finalist Talent Award Previously Miss South Carolina Teen 2003 Easley 20 Miss Golden Corner Classical Vocal, "Time to Say Goodbye" Top 10 Preliminary Talent AwardBernie Wayne Performing Arts Scholarship Former nanny for Hugh Jackman's childrenLater Miss South Carolina USA 2012Top 16 at Miss USA 2012 pageant Spartanburg 23 Miss Charleston Lyrical Dance, "You Raise Me Up" Never received $25,000 in scholarship winnings from the Miss South Carolina Organization2003 Jessica Eddins Irmo 24 Miss North Charleston Semi classical Vocal, "And This Is My Beloved" Non finalist Talent Award2002 Kelly McCorkle Greenville 23 Miss Golden Corner Lyrical Ballet, "I Believe" Top 15 Half sister of Miss South Carolina Teen 2008, Courtney CissonContestant on The Amazing Race 7 with then boyfriend, Ron Young2001 Jeanna Raney Inman 20 Miss Greater Greer Tap Dance, "Kiss Me" Top 20 Active International Scholarship for Business and Marketing2000 Heather Hudson Lexington 22 Miss Tigertown Classical Vocal, "Il Bacio" by Luigi Arditi Non finalist Talent Award Previously South Carolina's Junior Miss 1996 1999 Danielle Davis Greer 18 Miss Greater Greer Fountain Inn 24 Miss Camden Vocal, "Operator" by The Manhattan Transfer 1997 Janet Powers Hartsville 21 Miss Southern 500 Vocal Medley, "Go Tell It on the Mountain," "Gonna Build a Mountain," & "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" Non finalist Talent Award 1996 Angela Hughes Anderson 21 Miss Anderson County Tap Dance, "Sing, Sing, Sing" Later Mrs. South Carolina America 2005 under her married name, Angela Hughes Singleton 1995 Amanda Spivey Boiling Springs 22 Miss Southern 500 Soprano saxophone, "The Joy of Life" Non finalist Talent Award 1994 Kristie Greene 24 Columbia 18 Miss Columbia Vocal, "Summertime" Winner Greenville 26 Miss Greenville Marimba, "Csárdás" Top 10 Preliminary Swimsuit Award Postponed her medical school residency after being crowned 1990 Mary Gainey 1988 Anna Graham Reynolds Greenwood 23 Miss Greenwood Vocal, "Mack the Knife" Daughter of Miss South Carolina 1957, Cecilia Colvert Myrtle Beach 21 Miss Myrtle Beach Piano, "The Stars and Stripes Forever" Preliminary Swimsuit AwardCurrent co anchor on Entertainment Tonight 1986 Dawn Smith Columbia 22 Miss Liberty Classical Vocal, "Je Veux Vivre" from Roméo et Juliette 2nd runner up Preliminary Swimsuit Award Sister was brutally murdered a year prior to her winning Miss South Carolina (events were later made into investigative documentary dramas)Won "Miss Pageant Rewind" on What Not to Wear against two fellow pageant contestants 1985 Sherry Thrift Westminster 23 Miss Liberty Clogging, "Are You From Dixie?" 1st runner up Previously South Carolina's Junior Miss 1980 1984 Vicki Harrell 21 Miss South Congaree Vocal, "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" 1982 Julia Hill Columbia 21 Miss Columbia Northeast Figure Skating, "Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major" 1980 Donna Jewell 19 Miss Cayce West Columbia Vocal, "Have I Stayed Too Long at the Fair?" 1979 Jane Jenkins Johns Island 23 Miss Charleston Vocal 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" Aiken 17 Miss Aiken County Ballet, "Pas de Quatre" Non finalist Talent Award 1977 Catherine Hinson Latta 23 Piano Medley, "The Man I Love" & "Sunny" 1st runner up Preliminary Swimsuit Award 1975 Cynthia Anthony Charleston 18 Miss Charleston Vocal, "Oh Babe, What Would You Say?" 1973 Fran Riggins Easley 21 Miss Easley Vocal, "All the Things You Are" 1972 Bonnie Corder Columbia 21 Miss Columbia Vocal Medley, "My Man's Gone Now," "Let Me Sing," & "I'm Happy" 1971 Pamela Inabinet Spartanburg 19 Miss Spartanburg Vocal, "Once Upon a Time" 1st runner up Preliminary Swimsuit Award Claudia Carmen Turner Wells Bauman, died at 71 on September 24, 2021, in South Carolina. 1969 Brantlee Price Newberry 19 Miss Newberry Vocal, "Got A Lot O' Living To Do" 1968 Rebecca Smith Fountain Inn 23 Miss Laurens Organ Medley, "Spanish Flea" & "Flight of the Bumblebee" 1966 Barbara Harris Simpsonville 21 Miss Columbia Classical Vocal, "Adele's Laughing Song" from Die Fledermaus Preliminary Swimsuit Award Toured with Miss America USO Troupe Aiken 18 Miss Aiken Piano, "Variations on There She Is" Top 10 Preliminary Talent Award Later married US Senator, Strom Thurmond, who was 44 years her senior, in 1968 Florence 20 Miss Florence Vocal Medley 1963 Carolyn Gaines Greenville 19 Miss Columbia Interpretive Dance, "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" & "Gigi" 3rd runner up Previously South Carolina's Junior Miss 1961 1961 Janet McGee Greenville 20 Miss Greenville Vocal, "Ave Maria" 1960 Edith Sandra Browning Greenwood 19 Miss Greenwood Comic Dance / Pantomime, "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like my Sister Kate" Top 10 Preliminary Swimsuit Award Moncks Corner 19 Miss Moncks Corner Vocal 1958 Gene Wilson Charleston 18 Miss Charleston Vocal, "If I Loved You" Non finalist Talent award 1957 Cecilia Colvert Greenwood 18 Miss Columbia Pantomime / Vocal, "C'est si bon" by Eartha Kitt Mother of Miss South Carolina 1988, Anna Graham Reynolds Manning 19 Miss Manning Comedy Sketch, "The Monroe Doctrine" Winner 1955 Martha Chestnut Conway Miss Conway Piano 1954 Polly Suber Greenville Miss Whitmire Monologue, "Air Corps" 2nd runner up Preliminary Swimsuit Award 1953 Miriam Stevenson Winnsboro 20 Miss Greenwood Tap Dance Top 10 Later Miss South Carolina USA 1954, Miss USA 1954, and Miss Universe 1954First Miss USA to be crowned Miss Universe Florence Miss Florence Classical Vocal Top 10 1st runner up at the Miss USA 1953 pageant, representing Myrtle Beach5th runner up at Miss World 1953 pageant, representing the United States 1951 Joyce Perry Conway Miss Conway Comedy Vocal, "Sewing Machine" Top 10 1950 Carolyn Fowler Lyman 17 Miss Lyman Vocal, "Why Don't You Fall In Love With Me" Columbia Miss Clinton Died on April 24, 1952, after her car was struck by a drunk driver Miss Columbia 1945 Margaret SeibleColumbia Drama, "Life with a Southern Mammy on an Old Plantation" Non finalist Talent Award 1944 Gloria Mae Grisso Multiple South Carolina representativesContestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant Virginia Owens Miss Columbia Multiple South Carolina representativesContestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant Nelle Xermenia Owens Charleston Miss Charleston Multiple South Carolina representativesContestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant Gloria Frances Missel Miss South Carolina Vocal, "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" 1940 LaBruce Sherill Myrtle Beach Miss Myrtle Beach Tap Dance, "Cocktails for Two" Top 15 Preliminary Talent Award Multiple South Carolina representativesContestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant Vanadora Baker Dillon Miss South Carolina Recitation 1939 Mary Eleanor Parish Clinton Miss South Carolina Vocal, "Especially For You" 1938 Margaret Simrill Land Columbia Miss Columbia 1936No South Carolina representative at Miss America pageant 1935 1934No national pageant was held 1933No South Carolina representative at Miss America pageant 1932No national pageants were held Charleston Miss Charleston Top 15 No Miss South CarolinaContestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant 1926 Dorothy Brickman Charleston Miss Charleston 1925No South Carolina representative at Miss America pageant 1924 1923 1922 1921