Miss California

! Year

! Name

! Hometown

! Age

! Local Title

! Miss America Talent

! Placement at Miss America

! Special scholarships at Miss America

! Notes

|Kimberly Vernon

|Santa Clara

|27

|Miss Santa Clara County

|Jazz Dance

|

|

|100th Miss California

|Sabrina Lewis

|Berkeley

|26

|Miss Berkeley

| HERstory

|

|

|Previously Miss California USA 2021

|Catherine Liang

|San Francisco

|22

|Miss San Francisco

|Piano

|

|Women in Business Finalist

Non-finalist Talent Award

|

|Jazmin Avalos{{Cite web|last=Valenzuela|first=Larry|date=June 25, 2021|title=Sixth shot is sweet spot for winner of 2021 Miss California competition Friday in Fresno|url=https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article252379488.html|access-date=June 27, 2021|website=The Fresno Bee}}

|Garden Grove

|24

|Miss Los Angeles County

|Vocal

|

|

|

|2019–20

|Eileen Kim{{cite web|last=Pope|first=Troy|date=April 6, 2020|title=Miss California 2020 postponed|url=https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/miss-california/miss-california-2020-postponed/|access-date=June 6, 2020|publisher=YourCentralValley.com}}{{cite news |first=Anthony |last=Galaviz |title=Fourth time a charm for new Miss California. ‘I wasn’t here to just win the crown,’ she says |url=https://www.fresnobee.com/entertainment/article231971437.html |work=The Fresno Bee |date=June 29, 2019}}

|Orange

|22

|Miss Culver City

|Violin

|Top 15{{cite web |title=Miss America 2020 Pageant: Top 15 Contestants Revealed LIVE |work=Heavy.com|url=https://heavy.com/entertainment/2019/12/miss-america-2020-top-15-winners-contestants/ |date=December 19, 2019}}

|

|

|MacKenzie Freed{{cite web|first=Juan |last=Esparza Loera |work=Vida en el Valle |title=Miss California 2018 MacKenzie Freed heading to a revamped Miss America |url=https://www.vidaenelvalle.com/news/state/article214145839.html |date=June 30, 2018}}

|Lodi

|23

|Miss Treasure Island

|Vocal, "Hit Me With a Hot Note"

|

|

|

| Jillian Smith{{cite news|first=Ashleigh |last=Panoo |title=Miss California crowns its champ, and the winner is …| newspaper=The Fresno Bee |url=http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article159296699.html|date=July 1, 2017}}

| Grass Valley

| 22

| Miss Yosemite Valley

| Piano, "Malaguena"

|

|

|

|2016

| Jessa Carmack{{Cite news|url=http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article87418357.html|title=North Bay’s Jessa Carmack is crowned Miss California 2016 in Fresno|work=fresnobee|access-date=2018-02-22|language=en}}

| Santa Clara

| 22

| Miss North Bay

| Gymnastics Dance

|Top 10{{cite web|first=Lauren |last=Wiegle |work=Heavy.com |title=Miss America 2017 Pageant: Top 10 Contestants Revealed LIVE |url=https://heavy.com/entertainment/2016/09/miss-america-2017-winners-top-10-contestants-who-won-wins-pageant-results-tonight-last-2016/ |date=September 11, 2016}}

|

| Previously Miss California's Outstanding Teen 2011{{cite web |first=Cynthia |last=Cheng |work=Silicon Valley Voice |title=Miss California’s Outstanding Teen 2011 is Jessa Carmack |url=http://svvv2.selectiva.com/index.php/2011/07/13/miss-californias-outstanding-teen-2011/ |access-date=2018-06-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612143050/http://svvv2.selectiva.com/index.php/2011/07/13/miss-californias-outstanding-teen-2011/ |archive-date=2018-06-12 |url-status=dead }}
Finalist at Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2011 pageant

| Bree Morse{{cite news |first=Nicole |last=Santos |newspaper=The Fresno Bee |publisher=McClatchy |location=Fresno, CA |title=Miss Orange Coast wins Miss California crown |url=http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article25678765.html |date=June 27, 2015 |access-date=June 28, 2015}}

| Garden Grove

| 23

| Miss Orange Coast

| Tap Dance, "Land of a Thousand Dances"

|

|

|

| Marina Inserra

| San Diego

| 24

| Miss Yosemite Valley

| Vocal, "Bring Him Home" from Les Misérables

|

|

|

|2013

| Crystal Lee{{cite news|last=Fernandez|first=Lisa|title=Crystal Lee, Miss America Runner-Up, a Stanford Grad, Techie|url=http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Miss-America-Runner-Up-Stanford-Grad-Techie-223945341.html|agency=NBC|date=September 16, 2013}}

| San Francisco

| 22

| Miss Silicon Valley

| Ballet en Pointe, "The Dying Swan"

| 1st runner-up{{cite news| first=Ann |last=Oldenberg |title=Miss America crowns 2014 winner |newspaper= USA TODAY |url= https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2013/09/15/miss-america-2014-crowned-in-atlantic-city/2818393/|date=September 17, 2013}}

| STEM Scholarship Award

| Previously Miss California's Outstanding Teen 2008{{cite web|first= Nikhita|last=Obeegadoo |work=The Stanford Daily |title=Crystal Lee ’13 is first runner-up in Miss America 2014 |url=https://www.stanforddaily.com/2013/09/23/crystal-lee-13-is-first-runner-up-in-miss-america-2014/ |date=September 23, 2013}}
Top 10 at Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2009 pageant{{cite web|title= Next in Line for Greatness |work= Pageantry Magazine |url= http://www.pageantrymagazine.com/magazine/features/2008/d08/MAOT-2008/MAOT-2008.html |date=August 20, 2008}}

Previously Miss Chinatown USA 2010{{Citation needed|date=December 2017}}

Cousin of Miss Louisiana 2016, Justine Ker{{cite web|url=http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/news/a63795/2017-miss-america-pageant-queens-fun-facts/|title=52 Fun Facts About This Year's Miss America Hopefuls|date=11 September 2016|website=Cosmopolitan.com}}

| Leah Cecil

| Garden Grove

| 22

| Miss Southern California Regional

| Classical Harp, "Great Day" by Nancy Gustavson

|

|

|Contestant at National Sweetheart 2011 pageant

|2011

| Noelle Freeman

| Carlsbad

| 22

| Miss Culver City

| Ballet en Pointe, "The Black Swan Variation" from Swan Lake

| 4th runner-up

|

| Previously Miss Teenage California 2007

|2010

| Arianna Afsar{{cite web|first= Alexia |last= Boyarsky |url=http://dailybruin.com/2012/01/10/ucla_students_juggle_their_academic_workload_with_pageant_competitions/ |title=UCLA students juggle their academic workload with pageant competitions |website=DailyBruin.com |date= January 10, 2012}}

| San Diego

| 19

| Miss San Diego County

| Vocal, "I (Who Have Nothing)"

| Top 10{{cite web|title= Pride of the Plains |work= Pageantry Magazine |url= https://www.pageantrymagazine.com/magazine/features/2011/b11/MAO-Teresa/b11-MAO-Teresa.html }}

|

| Previously Miss California's Outstanding Teen 2005{{cite web|first=Fred |last=Abel |title= A Thunderous Teen Success |work= Pageantry Magazine |url=https://www.pageantrymagazine.com/magazine/features/2005/d05/d05_maoteen/d05_maoteen.html }}
1st runner-up at Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2005 pageant

Top 36 contestant on American Idol's 8th season{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2009/02/american-idol-audition-of-the-day-arianna-afsar/|title=American Idol Audition of the Day: Arianna Afsar|date=2009-02-03|work=The Hollywood Gossip}}

Was cast as Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton in the Chicago production of Hamilton{{cite news |newspaper= Chicago Sun-Times |title=Casting for Chicago’s ‘Hamilton’ announced |url=http://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/casting-for-chicagos-hamilton-announced/|date=July 13, 2016}}{{cite news |newspaper=Daily Bruin |title=UCLA alumna Ari Afsar lands role in Chicago production of ‘Hamilton’|url=http://dailybruin.com/2016/09/16/ucla-alumna-ari-afsar-lands-role-in-chicago-production-of-hamilton/|date=September 16, 2016}}

|2009

| Kristy Cavinder

| Orange

| 21

| Miss Yosemite Valley

| Ballet en Pointe, "The Slave Maiden Variation" from Le Corsaire

| 1st runner-up

| Preliminary Talent Award

|

|2008

| Jackie Geist

| Vacaville

| 22

| Miss Hollywood

| Ballet en Pointe, "The Dying Swan"

| Top 7

|

|

|2007

| Melissa Chaty{{cite news|title=Miss North Coast Melissa Chaty wins 2007 Miss California crown|date=2007-07-01|access-date=2007-07-01|url=http://www.lompocrecord.com/articles/2007/07/01/ap-state-ca/d8q3kh5g1.txt|work=The Lompoc Record|agency=Associated Press}}{{dead link|date=December 2012}}

| Ukiah

| 24

| Miss North Coast

| Operatic Vocal, "The Jewel Song" from Faust

| Top 8

|

| Previously Miss Teenage California 2003

|2006

| Jacquelynne Fontaine

| Moorpark

| 24

| Miss Santa Barbara County

| Operatic Vocal, "Vissi d'arte"

| Top 10

| Preliminary Talent Award

|

| Dustin-Leigh Konzelman

| Carlsbad

| 23

| Miss San Diego

| Fiddle, "Twelfth Street Rag"

|

| Non-finalist Talent Award

Preliminary Talent Award

| Contestant on The Amazing Race 10 with Kandice Pelletier, Miss New York 2005{{Citation needed|date=December 2017}}

|2004

| Veena Goel

| Laguna Hills

| 22

| Miss Southland

| Jazz Dance, "Hot Honey Rag" from Chicago

| 4th runner-up

| Preliminary Talent Award

| Contestant at National Sweetheart 2003 pageant

|2003

| Nicole Lamarche

| Berkeley

| 24

| Miss San Francisco

| Vocal, "At This Moment"

| 4th runner-up

| Final Night Swimsuit Award

Preliminary Swimsuit Award

| Contestant at National Sweetheart 2001 pageant as Miss Arizona

| Jennifer Glover

| Castro Valley

| 23

| Miss Contra Costa County

| Contemporary Vocal, "A New Life" from Jekyll & Hyde

|

|

| Contestant at Miss International 1999 as Miss USA

Previously Miss California USA 2001

|2001

| Stephanie Baldwin

| Fullerton

| 23

| Miss Northern California Regional

| Vocal, "Time to Say Goodbye"

| Top 20

|

|

|2000

| Rita Ng

| Tracy

| 22

| Miss Los Altos

| Classical Piano, "Sonata Appassionata"

| 2nd runner-up

| Miss America Scholar Award

Preliminary Talent Award

|

| MaryAnne Sapio

| Rohnert Park

| 21

| Miss Gavilan Hills

| Tap Dance, "Go Daddy-O"

|

| Non-finalist Talent Award

|

| Danielle Coney

| Santa Clara

| 21

| Miss Gavilan Hills

| Vocal, "A Piece of Sky" from Yentl

|

| Non-finalist Talent Award

Waterford Business Scholarship

|

|1997

| Rebekah Ann Keller

| Lakewood

| 22

| Miss Los Angeles County

| Vocal, "Someone Like You" from Jekyll & Hyde

| 4th runner-up

| Preliminary Swimsuit Award

| Later Miss California USA 2000

| Lyndsay Kahler

| Orange

| 22

| Miss City of Orange

| Vocal, "Where Is It Written?" from Yentl

|

|

|

|1995

| Tiffany Stoker{{cite news |title=BYU Student Is Crowned Miss California for 1995 |url=https://www.deseretnews.com/article/427197/BYU-STUDENT-IS-CROWNED-MISS-CALIFORNIA-FOR-1995.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025030419/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/427197/BYU-STUDENT-IS-CROWNED-MISS-CALIFORNIA-FOR-1995.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 25, 2014 |work=Deseret News |date=July 10, 1995}}

| Clovis

| 21

| Miss Clovis

| Vocal, "Think of Me" from The Phantom of the Opera

| 3rd runner-up{{cite web|first=Roxanne |last=Roberts |title=Miss Oklahoma Wins, So Does Pageant Tradition |work=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1995/09/17/miss-oklahoma-wins-so-does-pageant-tradition/37616317-504d-4fb6-825d-08224ec8475f/ |date=September 17, 1995}}

| Preliminary Swimsuit Award

| Previously America's Junior Miss 1992{{cite news |title=Miss California "Woman of Year" |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/cumberland-times-news-jun-29-1992-p-2/ |work=Cumberland Times News |date=June 29, 1992 |page=2}}

| Jennifer Hanson

| La Habra

| 21

| Miss Garden Grove

| Vocal, "Since I Fell for You"

|

| Non-finalist Talent Award

|

| Lisa Michelle Duncan

| Tulare

| 21

| Miss Tulare County

| Character Ballet, "Turkey in the Straw"

|

| Preliminary Swimsuit Award

|

| Patricia Northrup

| Agoura Hills

| 23

| Miss Los Angeles County

| Vocal Medley

|

|

| Pilot for American Airlines{{Citation needed|date=December 2017}}

Judge for the Miss America 2001 pageant{{Citation needed|date=December 2017}}

| Paige Adams

| Hemet

| 22

| Miss Los Angeles County

| Vocal, "Some Day My Prince Will Come"

|

|

| Previously Alaska's Junior Miss 1986

Judge for the Miss America 2008 pageant{{Citation needed|date=December 2017}}

| Maria Ostapiej

| La Mesa

| 24

| Miss San Diego North County

| Vocal Medley, "Phantom of the Opera" & "Angel of Music"

|

| Non-finalist Talent Award

|

| Wendy Berry

| San Pedro

| 22

| Miss Centinela Valley

| Classical Ballet, "The Black Swan" from Swan Lake

|

|

| Professor at Yale University{{Citation needed|date=December 2017}}

|1988

| Marlise Ricardos

| San Pedro

| 26

| Miss Lomita

| Dramatic Vocal, "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misérables

| 3rd runner-up

|

|

| Simone Stephens

| Cerritos

| 25

| Miss El Camino

| Stand-up Comedy

|

|

|

| Lisa Kahre

| Salinas

| 19

| Miss San Ramon Valley

| Flute, "Carnival of Venice"

|

| Non-finalist Talent Award

|

| Lisa Davenport

| Santa Cruz

| 23

| Miss San Mateo County

| Popular Vocal, "Once in my Lifetime"

|

|

| Previously named Miss California 1982 when the original winner, Debra Maffett, won the Miss America 1983 pageant

Became the first titleholder to hold a state title twice{{Citation needed|date=December 2017}}

| Donna Grace Cherry[https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=http://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/&httpsredir=1&article=2920&context=studentwork Deitering, Debra Maddox, "The Miss America Pageant's Influence on the Self-Construction of its 1985 Contestants" (2001-12-1). Master of Arts Thesis. University of Nebraska at Omaha.]

| Northridge

| 24

| Miss West Los Angeles

| Vocal Impressions"{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu8vnhnM4kg|title=Miss California 1984 |website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}{{Dead YouTube link|date=February 2022}}

|

|

|

| Shari Moskau

| Mission Viejo

| 19

| Miss Saddleback Valley

| Popular Vocal, "Greatest Love of All"

|

|

|

| rowspan=2 |Lisa Davenport

| rowspan=2 | Santa Cruz

| rowspan=2 | 20

| rowspan=2 | Miss Tulare County

| rowspan=2 |

| colspan=3 {{N/A|Did not compete; later assumed the title after Maffett won Miss America 1983}}

| Later Miss California 1985

| Debra Maffett

| Anaheim

| 25

| Miss Anaheim

| Popular Vocal, "Come In From the Rain"

| Winner{{cite web |first=Louis |last=Toscano |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/09/12/Debra-Sue-Maffett-Miss-America-1983/7050400651200/ |work= United Press International |title=Debra Sue Maffett: Miss America 1983 |date=September 12, 1982}}

| Preliminary Swimsuit Award

Preliminary Talent Award

|

| Cheryl Vancleave

| Riverside

| 20

| Miss Los Angeles County

| Country Vocal Medley, "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool" & "You're Lookin' at Country"

|

|

| Later married Frank Kalil{{Citation needed|date=December 2017}}

Mother of Ryan Kalil and Matt Kalil{{Citation needed|date=December 2017}}

| Robin Brooks

| Elverta

| 23

| Miss Fullerton

| Vocal Medley, "America the Beautiful" & "Battle Hymn of the Republic"

|

|

|

| Deanna Rae Fogarty

| Azusa

| 22

| Miss Azusa

| Vocal, "Cabaret"

|

|

|

| Christine Acton

| Chula Vista

| 23

| Miss San Bernardino County

| Flute / Piccolo, "Hungarian Peasant Suite"

|

| Non-finalist Talent Award

|

|1977

| Connie Lee Haugen

| Redlands

| 24

| Miss San Bernardino County

| Vocal, "Nobody Does It Like Me" from Seesaw

| Top 10

|

|

|1976

| Linda Mouron

| Orange

| 19

| Miss Orange County

| Tap Dance, "Puttin' On the Ritz"

| 3rd runner-up

|

|

|1975

| Janet Carr

| San Gabriel

| 21

| Miss Pomona Valley

| Vocal, "They Call the Wind Maria" from Paint Your Wagon

| 2nd runner-up

| Preliminary Swimsuit Award

|

|1974

| Lucianne Buchanan

| Claremont

| 21

| Miss Pomona Valley

| Harp, "Concerto in B Flat"

| 1st runner-up

| Preliminary Swimsuit Award

| Assumed title when the original winner, Alice Tobler, resigned due to mononucleosis{{Citation needed|date=December 2017}}

|1973

| Susan Shipley

| Hillsborough

| 21

| Miss San Joaquin County

| Piano, "Malaguena"

| Top 10

|

|

| Diane Wagner

| Daly City

| 20

| Miss San Mateo County

| Ballet, "Swan Lake"

|

|

|

| Carolyn Stoner

| Belmont

| 18

| Miss San Mateo County

| Gymnastic Ballet, "Malaguena"

|

| Preliminary Swimsuit Award

|

| Karin Kascher

| Castro Valley

| 18

| Miss Hayward

| Violin, "Méditation"

|

| Non-finalist Talent Award

|

|1969

| Susan Anton

| Yucaipa

| 18

| Miss Redlands

| Vocal, "Get Happy" & "Put On a Happy Face"

| 2nd runner-up

|

| Actress best known for her role as "Susan Williams" in the various Stop Susan Williams!-related television series and television movies{{Citation needed|date=December 2017}}

| Sharon Terrill

| Torrance

| 21

| Miss Torrance

| Dramatic Reading, "Little Word, Little White Bird" by Carl Sandburg

|

| Non-finalist Talent Award

|

| Karen Pursell

| Lindsay

| 22

| Miss Fresno County

| Vocal, "Much More" from The Fantasticks

|

|

|

|1966

| Charlene Dallas

| Danville

| 19

| Miss Contra Costa County

| Piano, "Toccata" by Khachaturian

| 1st runner-up

| Preliminary Swimsuit Award

Preliminary Talent Award

| Assumed title when the original winner, Donna Danzer, resigned for school and personal reasons{{cite news |title=Beauty Wins Miss California Crown, Then Gives It Up |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72952455/beauty-wins-miss-california-crown-then/ |access-date=March 8, 2021 |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=June 27, 1966}}

| Sandra Lynne Becker

| Covina

| 18

| Miss Los Angeles County

| Semi-classical Vocal, "Make Believe"

|

| Non-finalist Talent Award

|

| Sherrie Raap

| Fremont

| 18

| Miss Oakland

| Jazz Baton Dance & Acrobatics

|

| Preliminary Swimsuit Award

|

|1963

| Wendy Douglas

| Sacramento

|

| Miss Sacramento

| Vocal, "Summertime"

| Top 10

|

|

| Pamela Gamble

| Carmel

| 18

| Miss Monterey County

| Classical Jazz Interpretive Dance

|

|

|

|1961

| Susan Henryson

| Fresno

| 19

| Miss Fresno County

| Vocal, "You've Got to See Momma Every Night"

| Top 10

| Miss Congeniality

Preliminary Talent Award

|

|1960

| Suzanne Reamo

| La Mesa

| 20

| Miss San Diego

| Vocal, "Love is Where You Find It"

| 1st runner-up

|

|

|1959

| Susan Bronson

| San Lorenzo

| 19

| Miss Southern Alameda County

| Modern Dance, "An American in Spain"

| 3rd runner-up

|

|

|1958

| Sandra Jennings

| Riverside

|

| Miss Riverside

| Piano, "Clair de Lune"

| 3rd runner-up

| Preliminary Swimsuit Award

|

|1957

| Lorna Anderson

| Sacramento

|

| Miss Sacramento

| Accordion, "Dark Eyes"

| 3rd runner-up

|

|

|1956

| Joan Beckett

| Sacramento

|

| Miss Sacramento

| Dramatic Sketch, "A Dream: Faith Over Atheistic Sciences"

| Top 10

| Preliminary Swimsuit Award

|

| Barbara Harris

| Santa Cruz

|

| Miss Watsonville

| Vocal, "Over the Rainbow"

|

|

|

|1954

| Lee Meriwether

| San Francisco

| 19

| Miss San Francisco

| Dramatic Monologue from Riders to the Sea

| Winner{{cite news |first=Trudi |last=Gilfillian |title=1955's Miss America Lee Meriwether's crown was first to be televised |date=September 16, 2013 |url=https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/missamerica/s-miss-america-lee-meriwether-s-crown-was-first-to/article_3b0411e1-7f94-5310-a42a-3c9cb4d8b965.html |work= Press of Atlantic City}}

| Preliminary Swimsuit Award

| Actress best known as Betty Jones in the 1970s television series Barnaby Jones

|1953

| Patricia Johns

| Fresno

|

| Miss Fresno

| Dramatic Monologue from The Country Girl

| Top 10

| Preliminary Swimsuit Award

|

|1952

| Jeanne Shores

| Azusa

|

| Miss Alhambra

| Dramatic Monologue

| 2nd runner-up

| Preliminary Swimsuit Award

|

| Patricia Lehman

| Sacramento

|

| Miss Sacramento

| Piano

|

|

|

|1950

| Joanne Durant

| San Diego

|

| Miss San Diego

| Vocal / Poetry Recitation, "Alice Blue Gown"

| Top 16

| Preliminary Swimsuit Award

|

|1949

| Jone Pedersen

| Santa Rosa

|

| Miss Sonoma County

| Dramatic Monologue, "You Will Come Back"

| 4th runner-up

| Preliminary Swimsuit Award

|

| Reba Watterson

| Stockton

|

| Miss Stockton

|

|

|

|

|style="background-color:#FFFF66;"| Laura Emery

|style="background-color:#FFFF66;"| Salinas

|style="background-color:#FFFF66;"| 18

|style="background-color:#FFFF66;"| Miss California

|style="background-color:#FFFF66;"| Vocal, "So Long for so Long"

|style="background-color:#FFFF66;"|4th runner-up

|style="background-color:#FFFF66;"|

|rowspan=2 |Multiple California representatives

Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant

| Los Angeles

|

| Miss Los Angeles County

| Vocal / Dress Design, "A Sunday Kind of Love"

|

|

|1946

| Marilyn Buferd

| Los Angeles

| 21

| Miss Wilshire District

| Dramatic Monologue from Accent on Youth

| Winner

| Preliminary Swimsuit Award

|

| style="background-color:#FFFACD;"| Polly Ellis

| style="background-color:#FFFACD;"| Tarzana

| style="background-color:#FFFACD;"|

| style="background-color:#FFFACD;"| Miss California

| style="background-color:#FFFACD;"| Vocal, "Ragtime Cowboy Joe"

| style="background-color:#FFFACD;"| Top 13

| style="background-color:#FFFACD;"| Preliminary Talent Award

| rowspan=2 |Multiple California representatives

Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant

|style="background-color:#FFFF66;"| San Diego

|style="background-color:#FFFF66;"|

|style="background-color:#FFFF66;"| Miss San Diego

|style="background-color:#FFFF66;"| Hula

|style="background-color:#FFFF66;"| 1st runner-up

|style="background-color:#FFFF66;"|

|1944

| Shirley Ballard

| Los Angeles

|

|

|

| Top 12

|

|

|1943

| Jean Bartel

| Los Angeles

| 19

|

| Vocal, "Night and Day"

| Winner

| Preliminary Swimsuit Award

Preliminary Talent Award

|

|1942

| Lucille Lambert

| Hollywood

|

| Miss Hollywood

| Vocal, "Embraceable You"

| 4th runner-up

|

|

|1941

| rowspan=2 | Rosemary LaPlanche{{cite news |title= Miss Delaware to Give Atlantic City Beauties Run for U. S. Honors |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/160417518/ |publisher=The Morning News|location=Wilmington, Delaware |date=September 4, 1941}}

| rowspan=2 | Los Angeles

| 18

|

| Dance

| Winner

| Preliminary Swimsuit Award

|

|1940

| 17

|

| Dance

| 1st runner-up

| Preliminary Swimsuit Award

|

|1939

| Marguerite Skliris

| San Francisco

|

| Miss San Francisco

| Dramatic Monologue, "The Poison Scene" from Romeo and Juliet

| 3rd runner-up

| Preliminary Talent Award

|

|1938

| Claire James

| Los Angeles

|

| Miss Los Angeles

| Dance

| 1st runner-up

|

|

|1937

| Phyllis Randall

| Hollywood

| 20

| Miss Hollywood

| Vocal / Dance

| 3rd runner-up (tie)

| Preliminary Talent Award

| Sister of Miss North Carolina 1941, Joey Augusta Paxton{{Citation needed|date=December 2017}}

|1936

| Phyllis Dobson

| Hollywood

|

| Miss Hollywood

| Drama

| 1st runner-up

| Preliminary Talent Award

|

|1935

| Virginia Donham

| San Francisco

|

| Miss San Francisco

| Vocal, "Chlo-e" & "I Ain't Got Nobody"

| Top 12

|

|

| colspan=8 style="text-align:center;" |No national pageant was held{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh//amex/missamerica/timeline/timeline2.html |title=Miss America Timeline: 1901–1950 |work=PBS |access-date=2020-04-19 |archive-date=2017-02-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215160548/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/missamerica/timeline/timeline2.html |url-status=dead }}

|1933

| Blanche MacDonald

| Los Angeles

|

| Miss Venus de Milo

| style="text-align:center;"| {{small|N/A}}{{cite news |first=Karen |last=Schnitzspahn |title=There She Was – Miss Long Branch|newspaper=Asbury Park Press |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/17247651/asbury-park-press/ |location=Asbury Park, New Jersey |date=September 8, 1997|page=4 |quote=...talent contest that was established in 1935.|via=Newspapers.com}}

| 2nd runner-up

|

|

| colspan=8 rowspan=5 style="text-align:center;" |No national pageants were held

|style="background-color:#FFFACD;"| Ruby Smith

|style="background-color:#FFFACD;"| Oakland

|style="background-color:#FFFACD;"|

|style="background-color:#FFFACD;"| Miss Oakland

| rowspan=15 style="text-align:center;"| {{small|N/A}}

|style="background-color:#FFFACD;"| Top 15

|style="background-color:#FFFACD;"|

| rowspan=4| Multiple California representatives

Contestants competed under local title at national pageant

| San Francisco

|

| Miss San Francisco

|

|

|style="background-color:#FFFACD;"| Los Angeles

|style="background-color:#FFFACD;"|

|style="background-color:#FFFACD;"| Miss Santa Cruz

|style="background-color:#FFFACD;"| Top 15

|style="background-color:#FFFACD;"|

| Los Angeles

|

| Miss Southern California

|

|

| Eleanor Twohig

| San Francisco

|

| Miss San Francisco

|

|

| {{small|Competed under local title at national pageant}}

|style="background-color:Gold"| Fay Lanphier

|style="background-color:Gold"| Oakland

|style="background-color:Gold"| 19

|style="background-color:Gold"| Miss California

|style="background-color:Gold"| Winner

|style="background-color:Gold"|

| rowspan=4| Multiple California representatives

Contestants competed under local title at national pageant

| Adrienne Dore

| Los Angeles

|

| Miss Los Angeles

| 1st runner-up

|

| San Francisco

|

| Miss San Francisco

|

|

| Santa Cruz

|

| Miss Santa Cruz

|

|

|style="background-color:#FFFF66;"| Lillian Knight

|style="background-color:#FFFF66;"| Los Angeles

|style="background-color:#FFFF66;"|

|style="background-color:#FFFF66;"| Miss Los Angeles

|style="background-color:#FFFF66;"| 3rd runner-up

|style="background-color:#FFFF66;"|

| rowspan=3| {{small|Multiple California representatives

Contestants competed under local title at national pageant}}

|style="background-color:#FFFF66;"| Santa Cruz

|style="background-color:#FFFF66;"| 18

|style="background-color:#FFFF66;"| Miss Santa Cruz

|style="background-color:#FFFF66;"| 2nd runner-up

|style="background-color:#FFFF66;"|

| Oakland

|

| Miss Oakland

|

| Violet Regal{{cite news |title=Extra Attraction |newspaper=The San Francisco Examiner |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26109625/the-san-francisco-examiner/ |location=San Francisco, California |date=August 22, 1923 |page=11 |via=Newspapers.com}}

| San Francisco

|

| Miss San Francisco

|

|

| {{small|Competed under local title at national pageant}}

| Katherine Grant{{cite news|title=Reporter, Dazzled by Beauty of Six Pageant Entrants - Sees Hard Job Ahead for Judges |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015313/1922-09-05/ed-1/seq-1/ |newspaper=The Indianapolis Times |location=Indianapolis, Indiana |date=September 5, 1922 |page=1}}

| Los Angeles

|

| Miss Los Angeles

|

|

| rowspan=2|{{small|Multiple California representatives

Contestants competed under local title at national pageant}}

| San Francisco

|

| Miss San Francisco

|

|

| colspan=8| {{center|No California representative at Miss America pageant{{cite web| url=https://www.missamerica.org/titleholders/1921-candidates/ |title=1921 Candidates |website=Miss America }}}}