Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age | Local Title | Talent at Miss America | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Jordyn Colao | Erie | 22 | Miss Freedom Forge | Tap Dance "Whatever Lola Wants" | |||
| 2011 | Juliann Sheldon | Plum Borough | 21 | Miss Jewel of the West | Lyrical Dance "I Believe" | |||
| 2010 | Courtney Thomas | Sigel | 21 | Miss Jewel of the West | Fiddle Solo "Orange Blossom Special" | Top 10 at National Sweetheart 2009 | ||
| 2009 | Shannon Doyle | Wilkes-Barre | 24 | Miss Armstrong County | Tap Dance "A Little Polish" | Miss America Dr.David Allman Medical Scholarship | ||
| 2008 | Kendria Perry | Pittsburgh | 23 | Miss Armstrong County | Piano | Non-Finalist Talent Award | ||
| 2007 | Rachel Brooks | Broomall | 24 | Miss River City | Vocal "Summertime" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 2006 | Emily Wills | Beaver | 24 | Miss Armstrong County | Vocal "If I Ain't Got You" | Top 10 Semi-finalist Miss America 2007 | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | 2nd runner-up to National Sweetheart 2005; Previously Pennsylvania's Junior Miss 2001 |
| 2005 | Nicole Brewer | Philadelphia | 22 | Miss Allegheny Valley | Vocal "The Wizard and I" from Wicked | Top Ten Semi-finalist | ||
| 2004 | Victoria Bechtold | Johnstown | 21 | Miss Pittsburgh | Classical Vocal "Je Veux Vivre" from Roméo et Juliette | |||
| 2003 | Candace Otto | Murrysville | 23 | Miss Three Rivers | Classical Vocal "Non Ti Scordar di Me" by Ernesto De Curtis | Non-Finalist Talent Award, Bernie Wayne Performing Arts Award | ||
| 2002 | Autumn Marisa | Waynesburg | 22 | Miss Armstrong County | Lyrical Dance "The Bells of St. Paul" | |||
| 2001 | Rosalyn Menon | Hazleton | 22 | Miss Three Rivers | Classical Piano "Piano Sonata in C Minor" by Beethoven | Top 20 Quarter-finalist | Preliminary Presentation & Community Achievement Winner | |
| 2000 | Melissa Jeka | Warminster | 23 | Miss Allegheny Valley | Ballet en Pointe "The Diamond" | Top Ten Semi-finalist | ||
| 1999 | Susan Spafford | Erie | 24 | Miss Southwestern Pennsylvania | Violin Solo "Polish Caprice" | 2nd Runner-up | ||
| 1998 | Mayra Acosta | Lewistown | 22 | Miss Southwestern Pennsylvania | Popular Vocal "To Love You More" | |||
| 1997 | Heather Busin | Grove City | 20 | Miss Butler County | Vocal "I Will Listen" | |||
| 1996 | GiGi Gordon | Butler | 23 | Miss Armstrong County | Lyrical Dance "When a Man Loves a Woman" | |||
| 1995 | Linette Mertz | Kutztown | 23 | Miss Susquehanna Valley | Country Vocal "Why Haven't I Heard from You" | |||
| 1994 | Kirstin Border | Glen Rock | 24 | Miss State Capitol | Violin Solo "Czardas with a Twist of Orange" | |||
| 1993 | Diane Fabiano | Lansdale | 24 | Miss Southwestern Pennsylvania | Vocal "City Lights" | |||
| 1992 | Judy Fitch | Dallas | 24 | Miss Wilkes-Barre/Scranton | Vocal "Sincerely" | |||
| 1991 | Linda O'Boyle | Dupont | 23 | Miss Wilkes-Barre/Scranton | Technique Tap Dance "Hoofin'" | Non-Finalist Talent Award, Quality of Life Award | ||
| 1990 | Marla Wynne | Easton | 23 | Miss Southwestern Pennsylvania | Ventriloquism "Together (Wherever We Go)" | Top Ten Semifinalist | 2nd runner-up, Quality of Life Award | Described by broadcaster Larry King as the "ugliest girl in the pageant. King later rescinded his remarks. Marla was a phone guest on The Howard Stern Show Oct.10 1990. Her mother, Marlene Wynne, was the Executive Director of the Miss Pennsylvania Pageant until her death in June 2008. |
| 1989 | Michelle Kline | Easton | 24 | Miss Wilkes-Barre/Scranton | Classical Vocal "Una Voce Poco Fa" from The Barber of Seville | Top Ten Semi-finalist | Quality of Life Award (first time awarded) | |
| 1988 | Denise Meyer | Pittsburgh | 21 | Miss Bedford | Popular Vocal "Over the Rainbow" | |||
| 1987 | Katarina Sitaris | Wilkes-Barre | 24 | Miss Wilkes-Barre/Scranton | Classical Vocal "Quando me'n vo'" | Cavalier Scholarship Winner | ||
| 1986 | Darlene Deeley | Philadelphia | 25 | Miss Greater Wilkes-Barre/Scranton | Gymnastics / Dance Routine | |||
| 1985 | Lea Schiazza | Philadelphia | 23 | Miss Montgomery County | Vocal "My Mammy" | Non-Finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1984 | Gina Major | Huntsville | 24 | Miss Lehigh Valley | Vocal: Judy Garland Medley | |||
| 1983 | Jennifer Eshelman | Hegins | 23 | Miss Pocono | Classical Vocal "Adele's Laughing Song" from Die Fledermaus | |||
| 1982 | Laurie Ann Hixenbaugh | Belle Vernon | 22 | Miss Washington County | Baton Twirling "Pop Goes to the Movies" | |||
| 1981 | Jill Shaffer | Dover | 22 | Miss Lebanon | Piano Solo "Grieg's Piano Concerto In A Minor" | |||
| 1980 | Anita Ellen Patton | Lebanon | 21 | Miss Lebanon | Vocal "If You Believe" from The Wiz | |||
| 1979 | Carolyn Louise Black | Elizabethtown | 22 | Miss Lancaster County | Vocal "All the Things You Are" | Top Ten Semi-finalist | ||
| 1978 | Charmaine Kowalski | State College | 22 | Miss Penn State | Piano Solo "Warsaw Concerto" | recipient of the Dr. David B. Allman Medical Scholarship | ||
| 1977 | Lynn Carol Grote | Bowmansville | 22 | Miss Lancaster County | Piano Medley "I Got Rhythm" "The Man I Love" & "Rhapsody in Blue" | Top Ten Semi-finalist | Preliminary Talent Award | |
| 1976 | Marie McLaughlin | Levittown | 23 | Miss Lehigh Valley | Ventriloquism "Together (Wherever We Go)" | Top Ten Semi-finalist | ||
| 1975 | Connie Harness | Mechanicsburg | 20 | Miss Carlisle | Classical Vocal "Romance" from The Desert Song | Non-Finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1974 | Karen Lynn Kuhn | Levittown | 20 | Miss Lower Bucks County | Ballet "Shubert Alley Overture" | |||
| 1973 | Tina Louise Thomas | Lancaster | 18 | Miss Lancaster County | Gospel Vocal "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" | 4th Runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | Released the sacred music album "Servant" shortly after competing for Miss America |
| 1972 | Linda Olson | Corry | 20 | Miss Indiana University of Pennsylvania | Piano Solo "Gershwin Medley" | 2nd Runner-up | ||
| 1971 | Maureen Wimmer | Perkasie | 20 | Miss Lower Bucks County | Classical Vocal "Quando me'n vo" | 3rd Runner-up | toured with Miss America USO Troupe | |
| 1970 | Maggie Walker | Harrisburg | 18 | Miss York County | Gymnastic Ballet on the Uneven Parallel Bars "Contessa" | 4th Runner-up | ||
| 1969 | Trudy Lee Pedersen | Etters | 18 | Miss York County | Vocal "The Sound of Music" | |||
| 1968 | Susan Robinson | Pittsburgh | 22 | Miss Pittsburgh | Comedy Monologue "Sis Hopkins" | |||
| 1967 | Doris Ann Lausch | Lancaster | 20 | Miss Lancaster County | Vocal "Love In a Home" from Li'l Abner | |||
| 1966 | Gale Veronica Rothwell | Philadelphia | 21 | Miss Germantown | Classical Vocal "Quando me'n vo" | Non-Finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1965 | Judith Lynn McConnell | Pittsburgh | 21 | Miss Pittsburgh | Dramatic Reading "Saint Joan" | Non-Finalist Talent Award | Long career as an actress, best known for her role in the Santa Barbara soap opera | |
| 1964 | Marilyn Cutaiar March | Havertown | 19 | Miss Delaware County | Toe Dance Ballet "Dance of the Painted Doll" | |||
| 1963 | Cheryl Lynn Kegley | Salisbury | Miss Central Pennsylvania | Classical Ballet "Ritual Fire Dance" | replaced Donna Loar who relinquished her title after two months due to Mononucleosis | |||
| 1962 | Crystale Leigh Martin | Milton | 19 | Miss Susquehanna Valley | Dramatic Presentation with self-accompaniment on the Harp or Zither "The Mad Scene" from Hamlet | |||
| 1961 | E. Lynne Maloney | King of Prussia | 20 | Miss Montgomery County | Charcoal Drawing Display & Pantomime Routine | |||
| 1960 | Priscilla Mae Hendricks | Shillington | 19 | Miss Reading | Original Display of Art Work | |||
| 1959 | Lois Janet Piercy | Springfield | 21 | Miss Centre County | Original Flute Solo & Art Display "Night Rain on the City" | Top Ten Semi-finalist | Preliminary Talent Award | |
| 1958 | Rosalie Samley | Bethlehem | Miss Lehigh Valley | Ballet "I Won't Dance" | ||||
| 1957 | Jennie Rebecca Blatchford | Hollidaysburg | Miss Central Pennsylvania | Baton Twirling | Preliminary Talent Award | |||
| 1956 | Lorna Malcomson Ringler | Upper Darby | Miss Delaware County | Vocal | Non-Finalist Talent Award | Niece of Miss America 1924 Ruth Malcomson | ||
| 1955 | Pam Ulrich | Sinking Spring | Miss Reading | Drama "Proper Recitation" | ||||
| 1954 | Barbara Sue Nager | Philadelphia | Miss Greater Philadelphia | Egyptian Ballet Dance "Egyptian Suite" | 3rd Runner-up | |||
| 1953 | Evelyn Margaret Ay | Ephrata | 20 | Miss Lancaster County | Poetry Recitation "Footsteps" from Leaves from a Grass-House by Don Blanding | Winner | Preliminary Swimsuit Winner | |
| 1952 | Miriam Smith | McAlisterville | Miss Susquehanna Valley | Pipe Organ "Tico Tico" | ||||
| Patricia Hunt | Philadelphia | Drama | Semi-Finalist | competed as Miss Philadelphia | ||||
| 1951 | Clare Lippert | Tarentum | Miss Kiski Valley | Vocal "Lullaby of Broadway" | ||||
| Margaret Ramsdale | Philadelphia | Vocal "Danny Boy" | competed as Miss Philadelphia | |||||
| 1950 | Emile Longacre | Phoenixville | Miss Chester County | Vocal "You're My Everything" | ||||
| Janice Murray | Philadelphia | Classical Vocal "O Don Fatale" from Don Carlos | Semi-Finalist | competed as Miss Philadelphia | ||||
| 1949 | Marlene Carozzo | Kennett Square | Miss Chester County | Piano "Clair de Lune" | ||||
| Miriam Lopayowker | Philadelphia | Electric Guitar "I'm in the Mood for Love" | competed as Miss Philadelphia | |||||
| 1948 | Ruth Douglas | Harrisburg | Vocal Medley "Let My Song Fill Your Heart" & "Lover" | |||||
| Betty Jane Bruce | Philadelphia | Vocal "Fool That I Am" & "Mean to Me" | competed as Miss Philadelphia | |||||
| Sarah Cromwell | Pittsburgh | competed as Miss Pittsburgh | ||||||
| 1947 | Dorothy Gresh | Williamsport | Vocal "Lover, Come Back to Me" | |||||
| Kay McClane | Philadelphia | Vocal "Sketching" | competed as Miss Philadelphia | |||||
| Lillian Handford | Pittsburgh | Painting Display | Semi-Finalist | competed as Miss Pittsburgh | ||||
| 1946 | Eleanor Kramer | Lebanon | Vocal "My Hero" from The Chocolate Soldier | Semi-finalist | Preliminary Talent Award | |||
| Virginia Brown | Philadelphia | competed as Miss Philadelphia | ||||||
| 1945 | Timmy Weston | Clairton | ||||||
| Gloria Bair | Philadelphia | Dance "Temptation" | Semi-Finalist | competed as Miss Philadelphia | ||||
| 1944 | Margie Dorie | Pittsburgh | Vocal "Big Boy Blue" | Semi-finalist | ||||
| Itha Duerrhammer | Philadelphia | Vocal & Dance | competed as Miss Philadelphia | |||||
| 1943 | Betty Merle Marcus | Kensington | competed as Miss Eastern Pennsylvania | |||||
| June McAdams | Philadelphia | competed as Miss Philadelphia | ||||||
| Emma Hammermeister | Pittsburgh | Dance & Baton Twirling | Semi-Finalist | competed as Miss Western Pennsylvania | ||||
| 1942 | Geraldine Powell | Philadelphia | competed as Miss Philadelphia | |||||
| Ruth Elfreda Schmidt | Pittsburgh | competed as Miss Western Pennsylvania | ||||||
| 1941 | Catherine Jane Albert | Coatesville | competed as Miss Eastern Pennsylvania | |||||
| Carre DeLudo | Philadelphia | competed as Miss Philadelphia | ||||||
| Roselle Hannon | Pittsburgh | Vocal "Because of You" | 1st runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | competed as Miss Western Pennsylvania | |||
| 1940 | Frances Marie Burke | Philadelphia | Vocal / Dance "I Can't Love You Anymore" | Winner | *Crowned Miss America as Miss Philadelphia | |||
| Dorothy A. Wall | Lansdowne | competed as Miss Delaware County | ||||||
| Mildred Saha | Secane | Semi-Finalist | competed as Miss Eastern Pennsylvania | |||||
| Alberta Louise Carts | Pittsburgh | competed as Miss Western Pennsylvania | ||||||
| 1939 | Ruth Phyllis Willock | Pittsburgh | ||||||
| Emma Louise Knoell | Philadelphia | competed as Miss Eastern Pennsylvania | ||||||
| Nancy Lee | Philadelphia | competed as Miss Philadelphia | ||||||
| 1938 | Wilma Kasper | Rahns | competed as Miss Eastern Pennsylvania | |||||
| Kathryn Buckley | Philadelphia | Swing Vocal | Semi-Finalist | competed as Miss Philadelphia | ||||
| Ruth Willock | Pittsburgh | Semi-Finalist | competed as Miss Western Pennsylvania. Original winner Peggy Neenan was disqualified for having been married and divorced. | |||||
| 1937 | Beryl Kober | Chalfont | competed as Miss Eastern Pennsylvania | |||||
| Kathryn Crase | Philadelphia | competed as Miss Philadelphia | ||||||
| Kathryn H. Kendrick | Sunnybrook | competed as Miss Sunnybrook | ||||||
| 1936 | Rose Coyle | Philadelphia | Vocal / Tap Dance "I Can't Escape From You" & "Truckin'" | Winner | *crowned Miss America as Miss Philadelphia | |||
| Margie Sossong | Scranton | competed as Miss Anthracite | ||||||
| Elaine Miller | Chester | Semi-Finalist | competed as Miss Chester | |||||
| Ellen McCormick | Lancaster | competed as Miss Lancaster | ||||||
| Joan Frankenburg | Miquon | competed as Miss Montgomery County | ||||||
| Bonnie Boyle | Pittsburgh | Semi-Finalist | competed as Miss Pittsburgh | |||||
| Anna Julia Zaker | Reading | Semi-Finalist | competed as Miss Reading | |||||
| Marie Ketter | Ridgway | competed as Miss Western Pennsylvania | ||||||
| Sallie Hinton | York | competed as Miss York | ||||||
| 1935 | Henrietta Leaver | Pittsburgh | Vocal / Tap Dance "Living In a Great Big Way" | Winner | crowned Miss America as Miss Pittsburgh | |||
| Loretta Gale Tarle | Bridgeport | competed as Miss Bridgeport | ||||||
| Helen Rita Skelly | Conshocken | competed as Miss Conshocken | ||||||
| Florence Carman | Upper Darby | competed as Miss Delaware County | ||||||
| Margie Godwin | Philadelphia | competed as Miss Mayfair | ||||||
| Marie Baumgard | Norristown | competed as Miss Montgomery County | ||||||
| Helen Keaser | Norristown | Vocal Medley "Tell Me That You Love Me Tonight" & "You're a Heavenly Thing" | Semi-Finalist | competed as Miss Norristown | ||||
| Jean McCool | Philadelphia | Vocal Medley "Lovely To Look At" & "Little Things You Used To Do" | Semi-Finalist | competed as Miss Philadelphia | ||||
| Alice Brown | Scranton | competed as Miss Scranton | ||||||
| Claire Spirit | Tamaqua | competed as Miss Tamaqua | ||||||
| Lenore Pollock | West Philadelphia | Vocal, Piano, Banjo & Dance "Dark Eyes" & "My Man" | Semi-Finalist | competed as Miss West Philadelphia | ||||
| Gertrude Schappert | Wilkes Barre | competed as Miss Wilkes Barre | ||||||
| 1933 | Geraldine Glassman | 17 | Semi-Finalist | |||||
| 1927 | Florence Koons | Kathleen Coyle, Miss Philadelphia was a Finalist and Dorothea Ditmer, Miss Rochester was a Semi-Finalist in the pageant. Also representing Pennsylvania were Mary Millnack, Miss Pittsburgh and Esther J. Cantor, Miss Wilkes Barre | ||||||
| 1926 | No Miss Pennsylvania | Anna Mae Reefer, Miss Philadelphia was a Finalist in the pageant. Also representing Pennsylvania were: Esther Weissinger, Miss Pottsville; Illa Williams, Miss Scranton & Helen Villet Grant, Miss Wilkes Barre. There was also a Miss Lancaster whose name is not known. | ||||||
| 1925 | No Miss Pennsylvania | Mildred Walker, Miss Pittsburgh was a finalist in the pageant. Also representing Pennsylvania were: Mary Ann Guth, Miss Erie; Estella Wittell, Miss Lancaster; Elsie Gallagher, Miss Pottsville; Florence Zawidski, Miss Reading; Beula Keator, Miss Scranton; Mildred Sherman, Miss Uniontown. Annette Jackson, Miss Philadelphia was disqualified for being a professional model. | ||||||
| 1924 | Ruth Malcomson | Philadelphia | Winner | *crowned Miss America representing Philadelphia, aunt of Miss Pennsylvania 1956- Lorna Malcomson Ringler and great-aunt of Miss Delaware 1981- Jodi Meade Graham | ||||
| No Miss Pennsylvania | Other contestants representing Pennsylvania were: Katherine Brown, Miss Altoona; Margaret McGee, Miss Delaware County; Letne von Alt, Miss Johnstown (the original winner Adeline Richardson Yeckley was disqualified for being married); Stella Springer, Miss Lancaster; Dorothy E. Gross, Miss Norristown; Helen Steubner, Miss Pittsburgh; Nellie M. Paige, Miss Reading & Theresa Matzer, Miss Wilkes Barre. Also competing were a Miss Erie and a Miss Marcus Hook whose names are not known. | |||||||
| 1923 | No Miss Pennsylvania | Marion Green, Miss Philadelphia was 4th runner-up; Betty Grening, Miss Johnstown & Jane Ondeck, Miss Reading were Semi-Finalists. Also representing Pennsylvania were: Helen Noble, Miss Allentown; Margaret Lillian Ross, Miss Altoona; Agnes Connelly, Miss Erie; Helen R. Knisely, Miss Harrisburg; Cora Frey, Miss Lancaster; Grace Kohr, Miss Lebanon; Mildred Maconachy, Miss Norristown; Isabel Lynch, Miss Pottsville & Mary Botto, Miss Sunbury. There was also a Miss Easton who competed but her name is not known. | ||||||
| 1922 | No Miss Pennsylvania | Representing Pennsylvania were: Ellen Sherr, Miss Allentown; Anna Maria Burke, Miss Chester; Dorothy Haupt, Miss Easton; Thera McDonnel, Miss Erie; Gertrude Shoemack, Miss Harrisburg; Velma Zeigler, Miss Johnstown; Elsie Blumenstock, Miss Lancaster; Kitty Molineaux, Miss Philadelphia; Rae Bennett, Miss Pittsburgh; Leah Knapp, Miss Pottstown & Evelyn Renninger, Miss Reading | ||||||
| 1921 | No Miss Pennsylvania | Representing Pennsylvania were: Emma Pharo, Miss Harrisburg; Nellie Orr, Miss Philadelphia & Thelma Matthews, Miss Pittsburgh |
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