The Miss Texas USA competition is the pageant who selects the representative for the state Texas in the Miss USA pageant. Official language(s) None. ... Miss USA 2005 Chelsea Cooley from North Carolina Miss USA 2004 Shandi Finnessey from Missouri Miss USA 2003 Susie Castillo from Massachusetts The Miss USA Pageant (not to be confused with the similar Miss America pageant) is a beauty contest that has been held every year since 1952, and is...

Texas is generally regarded as the most successful state ever to compete at Miss USA. They have had eight winners, three more than any other state, and one Miss Universe. Texas may best known for the coloquially known Texas Aces. Until these five beauties came along no state had ever won the Miss USA pageant more than two times in succession, but Texas won every single pageant from 1985-1989. Miss USA 2005 Chelsea Cooley from North Carolina Miss USA 2004 Shandi Finnessey from Missouri Miss USA 2003 Susie Castillo from Massachusetts The Miss USA Pageant (not to be confused with the similar Miss America pageant) is a beauty contest that has been held every year since 1952, and is... Miss Universe is an annual international beauty contest, and the title for the winner of the contest, founded in 1952 by California clothing company Pacific Mills. ... The Texas Aces is a name coloquially given to five Miss Texas USA titleholders who went on to win the Miss USA beauty pageant in succession from 1985-1989. ...

Texas has also had the most semifinalists (or better) - 44, and has received the most special awards - 9.

Christy Fitchner, Miss Texas USA and Miss USA in 1986 had a soon-to-be famous 1st runner-up - actress and award winner Halle Berry Halle Berry on the cover of Vogue (Dec 2002). ...

List of winners

• 2006 - Lauren Lanning
• 2005 - Tyler Willis (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
• 2004 - Stephanie Guerrero (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
• 2003 - Nicole O'Brian (2nd runner-up to Miss USA)
• 2002 - Kasi Laine Kelly (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
• 2001 - Kandace Krueger (Miss USA)
• 2000 - Heather Ogilvie
• 1999 - Carissa Blair
• 1998 - Holly Mills (Finalist at Miss USA)
• 1997 - Amanda Little (Finalist at Miss USA)
• 1996 - Kara Williams (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
• 1995 - Chelsi Smith (Miss USA and Miss Congeniality, Miss Universe)
• 1994 - Christine Friedel (Finalist at Miss USA and Miss Photogenic)
• 1993 - Angie Sisk (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
• 1992 - Katie Young (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
• 1991 - Chris Bogard
• 1990 - Stephanie Kuehne (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
• 1989 - Gretchen Polhemus (Miss USA, 2nd runner-up at Miss Universe)
• 1988 - Courtney Gibbs (Miss USA, Semi-finalist at Miss Universe)
• 1987 - Michelle Royer (Miss USA, 2nd runner-up at Miss Universe)
• 1986 - Christy Fitchner (Miss USA, 1st runner-up at Miss Universe)
• 1985 - Laura Martinez-Herring (Miss USA, Semi-finalist at Miss Universe)
• 1984 - Laura Shaw (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
• 1983 - Lisa Gayle Allred (1st runner-up to Miss USA and Miss Photogenic)
• 1982 - Luann Caughey (1st runner-up to Miss USA)
• 1981 - Diana Durnford (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
• 1980 - Barbara Buckley (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
• 1979 - Anne Hinnant (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
• 1978 - Barbra Jo Horan (2nd runner-up to Miss USA and Best State Costume)
• 1977 - Kimberly Tomes (Miss USA and Best State Costume, Semi-finalist at Miss Universe)
• 1976 - Candice Gray (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
• 1975 - Aundie Evers (4th runner-up to Miss USA)
• 1974 - Debra Cronin
• 1973 - Lavon McConnell (Semi-finalist at Miss USA and Best State Costume)
• 1972 - Susan Peters (Miss Photogenic at Miss USA)
• 1971 - Brenda Lynn Box (1st runner-up to Miss USA)
• 1970 - Diane Swendeman (Semi-finalist at Miss USA and Miss Congeniality)
• 1969 - Sandy Drewes (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
• 1968 - Jeannie Wilson
• 1967 - Bonnie Robinson (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
• 1966 - Dorothy Pickens (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
• 1965 - Phillis Johnson (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
• 1964 - Diane Elaine Balloun (1st runner-up to Miss USA)
• 1963 - Cheryl Rene Wilburn
• 1962 - Jackie Faye Williams (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
• 1961 - Sheila Wade
• 1960 - Pat Cloud
• 1959 - Carelgean Douglas (1st runner-up to Miss USA)
• 1958 - Linda Ann Daughterty (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
• 1957 - Gloria Hunt (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
• 1956 - Jo Dodson (4th runner-up to Miss USA)
• 1955 - Mary Miles Daughters (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
• 1954 - Betty Lee (3rd runner-up to Miss USA)
• 1953 - Joan Gail Bradshaw (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
• 1952 - Charlene McClary

Kandace Krueger is an American television personality and former beauty queen. ... Chelsi Smith of Deer Park, Texas was crowned Miss USA, and ultimately Miss Universe in 1995. ... Gretchen Polhemus was crowned the 38th Miss USA in 1989 and against all odds, was the 5th out of five consecutive Miss Texas to win the title that decade. ... Courtney Gibbs was born in Dallas, Texas on August 20, 1966. ... Michelle Royer was crowned Miss USA in 1987 and represented Texas in the pageant. ... Laura Harring Laura Elena Martinez Herring (of German, Austrian and Mexican descent) is a Mexican-American actress and former Miss USA (1985) who was born in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, México, on March 3, 1964). ... Kimberly Tomes (b. ...

External links

• Official site of Miss Texas USA