The Miss Alaska competition is a scholarship pageant that selects the representative for the state of Alaska in the Miss America pageant. Unlike most state-level pageants in the Miss America system, Alaska allows any eligible woman to enter the Miss Alaska pageant without first having to win a local qualifying pageant. Emma Broyles was crowned Miss America 2022 on December 16, 2021. She is the first woman from Alaska to win the title, and only the third woman from Alaska to place at Miss America. [1]
Jordan Naylor of Anchorage was crowned Miss Alaska 2024 at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts in Anchorage, Alaska on June 6, 2024. She will represent Alaska and compete for Miss America 2025.
The following is a visual summary of the past results of Miss Alaska titleholders at the national Miss America pageants/competitions. The year in parentheses indicates the year of the national competition during which a placement and/or award was garnered, not the year attached to the contestant's state title.
No Alaska representative at Miss America pageant[51]
Notes
↑ Titleholder extended to a second full year in 2020 after state and national pageants postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic[4]
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↑ Curtis, Paul C. (April 12, 2004). "Justine Michioka appears in 'Miss USA' tonight". The Garden Island. ...her roommate is Miss Alaska, Cari Leyva, who is actually one-eighth Hawaiian and whose mom is originally from Kailua.
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