Miss West Virginia USA

For the state pageant affiliated with Miss America, see Miss West Virginia.

Jessi Pierson, Miss West Virginia USA 2009

Jessica Wedge, Miss West Virginia USA 2006

The Miss West Virginia USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of West Virginia in the Miss USA pageant.

West Virginia has not been greatly successful at Miss USA and they have never produced a winner. After an eighteen year drought that ended in 2005, two West Virginian delegates placed within five years: Kristen Morrison in 2005 and Jessi Pierson in 2009.

One Miss West Virginia USA has held the Miss West Virginia Teen USA title and competed at Miss Teen USA, and two have competed at Miss America.

Results summary

• 1st runners-up: Kelly Anderson (1984)
• 2nd runners-up: Ruth Parr (1957)
• Top 10: Jessi Pierson (2009)
• Top 12: Paula Morrison (1987)
• Top 15: Wilda Estep (1959), Garnett Pugh (1960), Kathy McManaway (1961), Kristin Morrison (2005)

Winners

Year	Name	Hometown	Age1	Placement at Miss USA	Special awards at Miss USA	Notes
2012	Andrea Rogers	Martinsburg	24
2011	Whitney Veach	Petersburg	24			2003 Miss West Virginia Teen USA
2010	Erica Jade Goldsmith	Mineral Wells	23
2009	Jessi Pierson	Milton	21	Top 10	Miss Photogenic
2008	Skylene Montgomery	Parkersburg				Ms. West Virginia United States 2006
2007	Kasey Montgomery	Petersburg	23
2006	Jessica Wedge	Evans	22
2005	Kristin Morrison	Ripley	24	Top 15		Current titleholder manager of the Miss West Virginia USA and Miss West Virginia Teen USA pageants under her married name, Kristin Flowers
2004	Carolyn Jennings	Morgantown	21
2003	Amy Thomason	Buckhannon
2002	Angela Davenport	Montgomery
2001	Karen Long	Barboursville				Winner of Miss Oktoberfest 2001
2000	Tara Wilson	Sistersville
1999	Amanda Burns					Previously Miss West Virginia Teen USA 1997, Later Mrs. West Virginia America 2004 under her married name, Amanda Duffy.
1998	Susan Booth
1997	Natalie Bevins	Parkersburg
1996	Regina Fisher	Glenville
1995	Tracy Holcomb
1994	Linda Bailey	Charleston
1993	Jennifer Johnson	Huntington
1992	Vickie Myers	Parkersburg
1991	Krista Ransbottom	Huntington
1990	Sabrina Anderson	Hinton
1989	Kathy Eicher	Huntington
1988	Cathy Fowler	Huntington
1987	Paula Morrison	Barboursville	22	Semi-finalist		Semifinalist at Miss International 1987
1986	Shonna Lyons	Parkersburg
1985	Lorre Lewis	Barboursville
1984	Kelly Anderson	Clarksburg	23	1st runner-up		Previously Miss West Virginia 1982, later Miss World USA 1984 and Top 5 finalist at Miss World 1984
1983	Jill Rigsby	Huntington
1982	Cindy Baniak	Star City
1981	Kelly Carr
1980	Linda Hendrick	Wiley Ford
1979	Candice (Candy) Boggs	Keyser	21
1978	Deborah Davis					Later Miss West Virginia 1979
1977	Pat Brown	Shepherdstown
1976	Cheryl Plants
1975	Joyce Myers	Wheeling
1974	Kim Nuzum	Wheeling
1973	Kathy Rowand	Pinch
1972	Diane McCutcheon	Wheeling
1971	Peggy Tennant
1970	Sharon Alberti	Weirton
1969	Betty Grimmer	Wheeling
1968	Patricia Coyne	Wheeling
1967	Pamela Young
1966	Annette Peery
1964-1965	Did Not Compete
1963	Nina Lou Denton
1962	Nicki Galais
1961	Kathy McManaway			Semi-finalist
1960	Garnett Pugh			Semi-finalist
1959	Wilda Estep			Semi-finalist
1958	Mary Guthrie
1957	Ruth Parr			2nd runner-up
1956	Janet Cardi
1955	Barbara Tucker
1954	Sandra Waggy
1953	Fay Higley
1952	Did Not Compete

¹ Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant

External links

• Official Website