Miss Florida Scholarship Organization

Miss Florida is an official preliminary to the Miss America Scholarship Competition.

The winner of Miss Florida competes at the Miss America Scholarship Competition, representing Florida, for a chance to win the title of Miss America and a $50,000 scholarship. Miss Florida has four phases of competition that include: private interview, on-stage interview, evening gown and talent.

In order to compete for Miss Florida you must be at least 17 years old and cannot be over 25 years old before December 31st in the year you hope to compete at the Miss America Scholarship Competition. In addition, you must reside, work or attend school in Florida, have never been married nor have any children. You also need to have won a preliminary title.

Check out the winners of the Miss Florida Scholarship Organization in the past:

Miss Florida 2018 – Taylor Tyson
Miss Florida 2017 – Sara Zeng
Miss Florida 2016 – Courtney Sexton
Miss Florida 2015 – Mary Katherine Fechtel
Miss Florida 2014 – Victoria Cowen (Assumed titled)
Miss Florida 2014 – Elizabeth Fechtel (Dethroned after a tabulation error from the final night of competition was corrected)
Miss Florida 2013 – Myrrhanda Jones
Miss Florida 2012 – Laura McKeeman
Miss Florida 2011 – Kristina Janolo
Miss Florida 2010 – Jaclyn Raulerson
Miss Florida 2009 – Rachael Todd
Miss Florida 2008 – Sierra Minott
Miss Florida 2007 – Kylie Williams
Miss Florida 2006 – Allison Kreiger
Miss Florida 2005 – Mari Wilensky (Assumed title)
Miss Florida 2005 – Candace Cragg (Relinquished title)
Miss Florida 2004 – Jenna Edwards
Miss Florida 2003 – Shauna Pender (Assumed title)
Miss Florida 2003 – Ericka Dunlap (Miss America 2004)
Miss Florida 2002 – Katherine Carson
Miss Florida 2001 – Kelly Gaudet
Miss Florida 2000 – Candace Rodatz
Miss Florida 1999 – Kelli Meierhenry
Miss Florida 1998 – Lissette Gonzalez
Miss Florida 1997 – Christy Neuman
Miss Florida 1996 – Jamie Bolding
Miss Florida 1995 – Kristin Ludecke
Miss Florida 1994 – Megan Welch
Miss Florida 1993 – Nicole Padgett
Miss Florida 1992 – Melinda Miller (Assumed title)
Miss Florida 1992 – Leanza Cornett (Miss America 1993)
Miss Florida 1991 – Mary Ann Olson
Miss Florida 1990 – Dana Rinehart Dalton
Miss Florida 1989 – Sandra Joanne Frick
Miss Florida 1988 – Melissa Aggeles
Miss Florida 1987 – Jennifer Anne Sauder
Miss Florida 1986 – Molly Pesce
Miss Florida 1985 – Monica Farrell
Miss Florida 1984 – Lisa Valdez
Miss Florida 1983 – Kim Boyce
Miss Florida 1982 – Deanna Pitman
Miss Florida 1981 – Dean Herman
Miss Florida 1980 – Becky Wells
Miss Florida 1979 – Marti Sue Phillips
Miss Florida 1978 – Wendy Sue Cheatham (Assumed title)
Miss Florida 1978 – Carolyn Cline (Relinquished title)
Miss Florida 1977 – Cathy La Belle
Miss Florida 1976 – Nancy Stafford
Miss Florida 1975 – Ann K. Schmalzried
Miss Florida 1974 – Delta Burke
Miss Florida 1973 – Ellen Meade
Miss Florida 1972 – Suzanne Charles
Miss Florida 1971 – Barbara Jo Ivey
Miss Florida 1970 – Liza Donovan
Miss Florida 1969 – Lynne Edea Topping
Miss Florida 1968 – Linda Fitts
Miss Florida 1967 – Dawn Cashwell
Miss Florida 1966 – Christine Torgeson (Assumed title)
Miss Florida 1966 – Diane Colston (Relinquished title)
Miss Florida 1965 – Carol Lynn Blum
Miss Florida 1964 – Priscilla Schnarr
Miss Florida 1963 – Flora Jo Chandonnet
Miss Florida 1962 – Gloria Brody
Miss Florida 1961 – Sherry Grimes
Miss Florida 1960 – Kathy Magda
Miss Florida 1959 – Nancy Rae Purvis
Miss Florida 1958 – Dianne Tauscher
Miss Florida 1957 – Dorothy Maria Steiner
Miss Florida 1956 – Sally Fisher
Miss Florida 1955 – Sandra Wirth
Miss Florida 1954 – Ann Gloria Daniel
Miss Florida 1953 – Marjorie Simmons
Miss Florida 1952 – Marcia Crane
Miss Florida 1951 – Mary Elizabeth Godwin
Miss Florida 1950 – Janet Ruth Crockett
Miss Florida 1949 – Shirley Ann Rhodes
Miss Florida 1948 – Rosemary Carpenter
Miss Florida 1947 – Eula Anne McGehee
Miss Florida 1946 – Jacquelyn Jennings
Miss Florida 1945 – Virginia Freeland
Miss Florida 1944 – Virginia Warlen
Miss Florida 1943 – Muriel Elizabeth Smith
Miss Florida 1942 – Eileen Knapp
Miss Florida 1941 – Mitzi Strother
Miss Florida 1940 – Mitzi Strother (Miss Miami)
Miss Florida 1939 – Rose Marie Magrill
Miss Florida 1938 – Mary Joyce Walsh
Miss Florida 1937 – Representatives competed under local titles at Miss America
Miss Florida 1936 – No representative at Miss America
Miss Florida 1935 – Elizabeth Hull
Miss Florida 1934 – No national pageant was held
Miss Florida 1933 – No representative at Miss America
Miss Florida 1932 – No national pageant was held
Miss Florida 1931 – No national pageant was held
Miss Florida 1930 – No national pageant was held
Miss Florida 1929 – No national pageant was held
Miss Florida 1928 – No national pageant was held
Miss Florida 1927 – Marcia Hands
Miss Florida 1926 – Margaret Jennell Tate
Miss Florida 1925 – Representatives competed under local titles at Miss America
Miss Florida 1924 – Representatives competed under local titles at Miss America
Miss Florida 1923 – Representatives competed under local titles at Miss America
Miss Florida 1922 – Eleanor Logan
Miss Florida 1921 – No representative at Miss America