Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age | Local Title | Talent at Miss America | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Kara Arnold | Bountiful | 22 | Miss Davis County | Piano "Ballade No. 1 in G Minor" | Top 15 | ||
| 2011 | Danica Olsen | Tooele | 21 | Miss Utah Valley University | Dance "Come Fly with Me" | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | ||
| 2010 | Christina Lowe | Midway | 21 | Miss Utah County | Vocal "Footprints in the Sand" | Top 15 | ||
| 2009 | Whitney Merrifield | Lindon | 18 | Miss Utah County | Classical Piano "Moments Musicale" | Top 10 at National Sweetheart 2008 | ||
| 2008 | Kayla Barclay | Manti | 18 | Miss Sanpete County | Piano | Non-Finalist Talent Award | ||
| 2007 | Jill Stevens | Kaysville | 24 | Miss Davis County | Vocal "Shy" from Once Upon a Mattress | Top 16 at Miss America 2008 | Miss Congeniality at National Sweetheart 2006; Voted into the Top 16 as "America's Choice" by viewers of the TLC Network's Miss America Reality Check series | |
| 2006 | Katie Millar | Highland | 20 | Miss Timpanogos | Electric Violin "Souvenir D'Amerique, Variations on Yankee Doodle" | Top 10 at Miss America 2007 | ||
| 2005 | Julia Bachison | North Ogden | 22 | Miss Utah State Fair | Vocal "I've Got the World on a String" | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Later Miss Utah USA 2008, top 15 at Miss USA 2008 | |
| 2004 | Amy Davis | Bountiful | 23 | Miss Salt Lake Valley | Classical Piano "Étude Op. 10, No. 12" | Top 15 | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | 1st Runner-up in Miss Utah USA 2007, Miss Photogenic at Miss America 2005 |
| 2003 | Stacy Johnson | Provo | 21 | Miss Provo | Latin Jazz Dance "Man of La Mancha" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 2002 | Natalie Camille Johnson | Bountiful | 22 | Miss Northern Utah | Classical Piano "Prelude in G minor" | |||
| 2001 | Jaclyn Hunt | Lehi | 20 | Miss Utah County | Classical Piano "2nd Concerto by Rachmaninoff" | Top 10 Semi-finalist | Quality of Life Award Winner | |
| 2000 | Jami Leilani Palmer | Tremonton | 20 | Miss Northern Counties | Classical Piano "Grieg's Piano Concerto In A Minor" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1999 | Vanessa Ballam | Logan | 20 | Miss Cache Valley/Logan | Vocal "When I Look At You" from The Scarlet Pimpernel | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1998 | Michele Mobley | Sandy City | 21 | Miss Sandy City | Classical Vocal "Glitter and Be Gay" from Candide | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1997 | Mary McDonough | Layton | 19 | Miss Davis County | Piano "Des Danzas Creoles" by Alberto Ginastera | Non-finalist Talent Award, 2nd runner-up Quality of Life Award | ||
| 1996 | Nanette Pearson | Pleasant Grove | 23 | Miss Salt Lake Valley | Classical Ballet "La Boutique Fantasque" | |||
| 1995 | Amanda Moody | Orem | 19 | Miss Orem | Classical Piano "Ballade No. 4" | Preliminary Talent Award, Non-finalist Talent Award, Bernie Wayne Talent Award | ||
| 1994 | Brooke Anderson | West Valley City | 21 | Miss West Valley City | Ballet | |||
| 1993 | Marquessa Glee Bullock | Providence | 20 | Miss Utah State University | Classical Piano "1st Movement from Concerto No. 1" by Sergei Rachmaninoff | |||
| 1992 | Jennifer Ward | Salt Lake City | 20 | Miss Salt Lake Valley | Classical Violin "Scherzo Tarantella" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1991 | Elizabeth Anne Johnson | Orem | 21 | Miss Utah State Fair | Classical Piano "Hungarian Rhapsody" | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | ||
| 1990 | Jennifer Nakken | Cedar City | 20 | Miss Iron County | Lyrical Dance "The Sound of Music" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1989 | Jacque Dawn Tingey | Centerville | 25 | Miss Intermountain Region | Vocal "Over the Rainbow" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1988 | Sophia Symko | Salt Lake City | 21 | Miss University of Utah | Piano "Spanish Rhapsody" | Preliminary Talent Award, Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1987 | Marianne Bales | Orem | 21 | Miss Orem | Lyrical Dance & Vocal "Let Me Dance For You" | |||
| 1986 | Donna Clark | Salt Lake City | 22 | Miss University of Utah | Ballet | |||
| 1985 | Gina Larsen | Provo | 21 | Miss Utah State Fair | Popular Vocal "Greatest Love of All" | |||
| 1984 | Nancy Gail Ayers | Miss Salt Lake Valley | 1st runner-up to Miss Utah 1984; Assumed title when Sharlene Wells won Miss America title | |||||
| Sharlene Wells | Salt Lake City | 20 | Miss Utah Valley | Spanish Vocal & Paraguyan Harp "Mis Noches Sin Ti" | Winner | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Previously was Utah's Junior Miss 1982 | |
| 1983 | Lynn Lambert | Provo | 21 | Miss Provo | Classical Piano "Concerto No. 2, 3rd Movement" by Rachmaninoff | Non-finalist Talent Award | Previously was Utah's Junior Miss 1980 & 2nd runner-up at America's Junior Miss | |
| 1982 | Cindy Quinn | Provo | 21 | Miss Utah State Fair | Classical Vocal "Habanera" | |||
| 1981 | Jonelle Smith | Provo | 23 | Miss Utah Valley | Classical Vocal "Sempre Libera" from La traviata | Top 10 Semi-finalist | Toured with the Miss America USO Troupe | |
| 1980 | Jean Bullard | Provo | 22 | Miss Indian | Vocal Medley "He Touched Me" from Drat! The Cat! & "Maybe This Time" from Cabaret | |||
| 1979 | Karen L. Brimley | Layton | 19 | Miss Weber State College | Semi-Classical Vocal "Love Is Where You Find It" | |||
| 1978 | Jami Coombs | Tremonton | 19 | Miss Wheat & Beet | Classical Piano "Grieg's Concerto in A Minor" | |||
| 1977 | Kristy Deakin | Brigham City | 19 | Miss Brigham City | Baton Twirling | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | ||
| 1976 | Suzanne McKay | Salt Lake City | 22 | Miss Salt Lake County Fair | Organ Medley "Yankee Doodle Dandy" & "God Bless America" | |||
| 1975 | Barbara Hanks | Sandy | 24 | Miss Latter Day Saints Business College | Jazz Dance "I'm a Brass Band" from Sweet Charity | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | ||
| 1974 | Kathlyn White | Bountiful | 21 | Miss Davis County Fair | Classical Vocal "Voices of Spring" | Wife of Wayne Osmond | ||
| 1973 | Brenda Richardson | Provo | 20 | Miss Brigham Young University | Vocal Medley | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1972 | Sally Peterson | Salt Lake City | 21 | Miss University of Utah | Classical Piano "Piano Concerto No. 1" | Non-finalist Talent Award, Miss Congeniality | ||
| 1971 | Janis Gentry | Vernal | 19 | Miss UBIC | Vocal "Shy" from Once Upon a Mattress | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | ||
| 1970 | Deborah Melba Dunn | Salt Lake City | 20 | Miss Stevens-Henager College | Modern Dance "Julia" | |||
| 1969 | Susan Nielson | Salt Lake City | 20 | Miss Utah National Guard | Ballet "Eleven Studies for Eleven Players" by Ned Rorem | |||
| 1968 | Kathleen Frances Wood | Salt Lake City | 19 | Miss Midvale | Monologue "The Promise of One Person On This Planet" | |||
| 1967 | Patricia Soutas | Salt Lake City | 20 | Miss Utah State Fair | Magic Act & Original Vocal "Everyone Has Magic" | |||
| 1966 | Georgia Lynne Johnson | Salt Lake City | 21 | Miss Rose Park | Dramatic Reading | |||
| 1965 | Frances Yvonne Vernon | Salt Lake City | 22 | Miss Utah Air Force Reserve | Original Modern Dance "The American Pioneer Woman" | Top 10 Semi-finalist | ||
| 1964 | Lois Anne Bailey | Salt Lake City | 18 | Miss Salt Lake City | Violin | |||
| 1963 | Annette Bates | Salt Lake City | Miss Salt Lake City | Classical Vocal "Adele's Laughing Song" from Die Fledermaus | ||||
| 1962 | Judith Ann Ridd | Magna | 19 | Miss Logan | Modern Interpretive Dance | |||
| 1961 | Carolyn DeAnn Lasater | Salt Lake City | 19 | Miss Utah National Guard | Pantomime Dance | 2nd runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | Featured Performer in the 1962 Miss America pageant |
| 1960 | Marian Faye Walker | Salt Lake City | 27 | Miss Utah National Air Force Resserve | Classical Vocal "The Waltz Aria" from Mireille | Top 10 Semi-finalist | Preliminary Talent Award | |
| 1959 | Jacqueline Winterrose | Salt Lake City | 22 | Character Dance "Tequila" | ||||
| 1958 | Janet Carolyn Secor | Salt Lake City | Classical Ballet "The Waltz" from The Sleeping Beauty | Top 10 Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1957 | Francine Louise Felt | Salt Lake City | Violin | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||||
| 1956 | Joan Willes | Salt Lake City | Comedy Skit | |||||
| 1955 | Suzanne Storrs Poulton | Salt Lake City | Non-Finalist Talent Award | |||||
| 1954 | Maurine Parker | Ogden | Drama | |||||
| 1953 | Ina Lavon Brown | Provo | Drama | |||||
| 1952 | Marylyn Reese | Brigham | ||||||
| 1951 | Colleen Kay Hutchins | Salt Lake City | 25 | Dramatic Monologue "Elizabeth the Queen" by Maxwell Anderson | Winner | Preliminary Talent Award | ||
| 1950 | Joanne Hinand | Provo | East Indian Dance | |||||
| 1949 | June Barlow | Bountiful | Vocal / Dress Design "Villanelle" & "The Wren" | |||||
| 1948 | Marilyn Robinson | Ogden | Dramatic Monologue "Tommy, Tommy, Tommy" | Semi-finalist | Preliminary Talent Award | |||
| 1947 | Donna Southwick | Cedar City | Drama, Piano, Vocal & Dance | |||||
| 1946 | Armelia Carol Ohmart | Salt Lake City | Vocal "I Won't Tell a Soul" | 4th runner-up | TV and film actress with a career from the late 40s to mid 70s, credits include the movie House on Haunted Hill | |||
| 1945 | Dorothy Holohan | Salt Lake City | Ballet | |||||
| 1938 | Muriel La Von Goodspeed | Salt Lake City | Classical Vocal & Piano | 2nd runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | |||
| 1927 | Esther Kilpatrick | Salt Lake City | ||||||
| 1926 | Dora Corstensen | Salt Lake City |
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