Formation | 1951 |
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Type | Beauty pageant |
Headquarters | Fayetteville |
Location | |
Membership | Miss World America (1951–present) |
Official language | English |
State Director | Kathy Keefe Jensen |
Website | Official Website |
The Miss North Carolina World competition is a beauty pageant that selects the representative for North Carolina in the Miss World America pageant. [1] [2]
The current Miss North Carolina World is Tisha Abdul of Concord, North Carolina.
Year | Name | Hometown | Age [notes 1] | Placement at Miss World America | Special awards at Miss World America | Notes |
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2025 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | ||
2023 | Tisha Abdul | Concord | 19 | Beauty With A Purpose Ambassador for the Northeast Region of the United States | ||
2019 | Peyton Brown [3] | Dunn | 18 | 2nd Runner-Up | 1st Runner-Up at Miss North Carolina's Outstanding Teen 2018 [4] Later Miss North Carolina Teen USA 2020. | |
2018 | Shivali Patel | Raleigh | 21 | 2nd Runner-Up | ||
Sania Laraib | Raleigh | 21 | Top 10 | |||
2017 | Shivali Patel | Raleigh | 20 | Top 16 | ||
Nicole Owens | Lumberton | 19 | ||||
2016 | Shivali Patel | Raleigh | 19 | 1st Runner-Up | Previously NAMiss North Carolina Jr. Teen 2011 and 2nd Runner-Up at NAM Jr. Teen 2011. | |
2015 | Selena Price [5] | Huntersville | 19 | |||
Miss North Carolina United States 2014 | ||||||
2014 | Elizabeth Safrit | Kannapolis | 22 | Miss United States 2014/Miss World America 2014 | 2nd Runner-Up at Miss World 2014. | |
Miss North Carolina World | ||||||
2013 | No titleholders as Miss World America was designated from 2006 to 2013. | |||||
2012 | ||||||
2011 | ||||||
2010 | ||||||
2009 | ||||||
2008 | ||||||
2007 | ||||||
2006 | ||||||
2005 | No known representatives from North Carolina from 2003 to 2005. | |||||
2004 | ||||||
2003 | ||||||
2002 | No titleholders as Miss World America was designated from 1995 to 2002. | |||||
2001 | ||||||
2000 | ||||||
1999 | ||||||
1998 | ||||||
1997 | ||||||
1996 | ||||||
1995 | ||||||
1994 | Michelle Mauney | Stanley | Top 7 | Later Miss North Carolina USA 1995 and competed in Miss USA 1995. | ||
1993 | Vicki Johnson | |||||
1992 | Shanna Phillips | Top 10 | ||||
Miss North Carolina USA 1981–1991 | ||||||
1991 | Pat Arnold | Chapel Hill | 21 | Top 6 (5th place) | Miss Photogenic | |
1990 | Altman Allen | Shelby | ||||
1989 | Jacqueline Padgette | Hobgood | ||||
1988 | Tammy Tolar | Fayetteville | ||||
1987 | Donna Wilson | Davidson | ||||
1986 | Rhonda Nobles | Fayetteville | 20 | Top 10 | ||
1985 | Kate Kenney | Raleigh | ||||
1984 | Cookie Noak | Hickory | 23 | Top 10 | ||
1983 | Allison Payge Pinson | Mooresville | ||||
1982 | Jeannie Boger | Sanford | Mother of Miss USA 2009 Kristen Dalton (Miss North Carolina USA 2009) and Miss North Carolina Teen USA 2008 Julia Dalton (second-runner up at Miss Teen USA 2008). | |||
1981 | Lisa Swift | Southport | ||||
Miss North Carolina World | ||||||
1980 | Monica Boston | Top 15 | ||||
1979 | Deborah Ann Fountain | Bronx, NY | Top 8 | Later Miss New York USA 1981. Later competed in Miss USA 1981, as New York, but was disqualified after being found to have padded her swimsuit. [6] | ||
1978 | Debra Jean Freeze | Mooresville | 20 | Miss World America 1978 | Top 15 semi-finalist at Miss World 1978. | |
1977 | Betty Lou Hutchinson | |||||
1976 | Sharon Denise Smith | Miss Congeniality | ||||
1975 | Tonda Brown | |||||
1974 | Gail Lynn Hinton | |||||
1973 | Doris E. Davis | |||||
1972 | Julia Ann Lane | |||||
1971 | Terri Lee Horn | |||||
1970 | Judith Ellen Steed | |||||
1969 | did not compete | |||||
1968 | ||||||
1967 | Brenda Carol Ray | Top 7 | ||||
1966 | Ann Elizabeth Bailey | |||||
1965 | Jean Parson Pender | |||||
1964 | Susan Harrill | Top 15 | ||||
1963 | did not compete | |||||
1962 | Louise Furr | Top 15 | ||||
1961 | Betsy Medlin | |||||
1960 | Rita Souther | 3rd Runner-Up | ||||
1959 | No known representatives from North Carolina in 1958 & 1959. | |||||
1958 | ||||||
Miss North Carolina USA 1953–1957 | ||||||
1957 | Peggy Dennis | Lilesville | ||||
1956 | Shirley Bagwell | Raleigh | 18 | Top 15 | ||
1955 | Mary Ratliffe | Wadesboro | ||||
1954 | Ann Pickett | Charlotte | ||||
1953 | Libby Walker | Wilton | ||||
Miss North Carolina World | ||||||
1952 | No known representatives from the North Carolina in 1951 & 1952. | |||||
1951 | ||||||
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