Miss Kentucky America 2012
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age | Local Title |
| 2011 | Ann-Blair Thornton | Bowling Green | 21 | Miss Bowling Green |
| 2010 | Djuan Trent | Columbus, GA | 23 | Miss Berea Area |
| 2009 | Mallory Ervin | Morganfield | 24 | Miss Bowling Green |
| 2008 | Emily Cox | Campbellsville | 22 | Miss Bowling Green |
| 2007 | Kaitlynne Postel | Lexington | 21 | Miss Monticello |
| 2006 | Rachelle Phillips | Princeton | 24 | Miss Heartland |
| 2005 | Kerri Mitchell | Barbourville | 21 | Miss Jeffersontown |
| 2004 | Maria Maldonado | Lexington | 22 | Miss Heart of the South |
| 2003 | MacKenzie Mayes | Lexington | 23 | Miss Monticello |
| 2002 | Mary Catherine Correll | Somerset | 21 | Miss Maysville Area |
| 2001 | Monica Hardin | Louisville | 20 | Miss Jeffersontown |
| 2000 | Whitney Boyles | Louisville | 22 | Miss Northern Kentucky |
| 1999 | Shanna Kari Moore¹ | Marion | Miss Jeffersontown | |
| Heather French | Maysville | 24 | Miss Louisville | |
| 1998 | Chera-Lyn Cook | London | 21 | Miss Lexington |
| 1997 | Lori Menshouse | Ashland | 24 | Miss Ashland Area |
| 1996 | Veronica Duka | Campbellsville | 19 | Miss Campbellsville |
| 1995 | Kristie Hicks | Bardstown | 23 | Miss Jeffersontown |
| 1994 | Laura Sue Humphress | Campbellsville | 22 | Miss Heart of the Bluegrass |
| 1993 | Tonya Virgin | Oldtown | 24 | Miss East Kentucky |
| 1992 | Tawnya Mullins | Kimper | 25 | Miss Heart of Kentucky |
| 1991 | Sheri Plambeck | Lexington | 23 | Miss Heart of the Bluegrass |
| 1990 | Nancy Cox | Campbellsville | 23 | Miss Bowling Green |
| 1989 | Melanie Glasscock | Leitchfield | 21 | Miss Green River Valley |
| 1988 | Mikka Darby | Salyersville | 19 | Miss East Kentucky |
| 1987 | Elizabeth McDowell | Prospect | 21 | Miss Jefferson County |
| 1986 | Melinda Cumberledge | Lexington | 23 | Miss Bluegrass Area |
| 1985 | Laurie Janine Keller | Nippa | 21 | Miss Floyd County |
| 1984 | Kelly Lin Brumagen | Lexington | 22 | Miss Fayette County |
| 1983 | Lynn Thompson | Lexington | 24 | Miss Bluegrass Area |
| 1982 | Gwendolyn Whitten | Vine Grove | 23 | Miss Louisville |
| 1981 | Sheri Copeland | Benton | 20 | Miss Bluegrass Area |
| 1980 | Daphne Cochran | Louisville | 21 | Miss Fairdale |
| 1979 | Kathryn Parker | Wilmore | 21 | Miss Lexington |
| 1978 | Marcia Bell | Lexington | 21 | Miss Lake Cumberland |
| 1977 | Karen Gordon | Benton | 21 | Miss Murray State University |
| 1976 | Victoria Harned | Leitchfield | 21 | Miss Lake Cumberland |
| 1975 | Marsha Griffith | Greenup | 22 | Miss Ashland Area |
| 1974 | Darlene Compton | Louisville | 25 | Miss Louisville |
| 1973 | Lyda Lewis | Louisville | 24 | Miss Louisville |
| 1972 | Diana Moore | Louisville | Miss Louisville | |
| Carolyn Walters | Louisville | 19 | Miss University of Louisville | |
| 1971 | Robbie Halcomb | Scottsville | 19 | Miss Jeffersontown |
| 1970 | Cynthia Bostick | Owensboro | 18 | Miss Owensboro |
| 1969 | Louisa Flook | Richmond | 20 | Miss Richmond |
| 1968 | Janet Hatfield | Jeffersontown | 18 | Miss Jeffersontown |
| 1967 | Jo-Anne Clark | Louisville | 19 | Miss Jeffersontown |
| 1966 | Janie Olmstead | New Castle | 22 | Miss New Castle |
| 1965 | Rebecca Snyder | Owensboro | 20 | Miss Lexington |
| 1964 | Linda Sawyer | Louisville | 21 | Miss Louisville |
| 1963 | Nell Owen | Bowling Green | Miss Bowling Green | |
| 1962 | Nanci Bowling | Campbellsville | 21 | Miss Harlan |
| 1961 | Lee Grigsby | Bardstown | 18 | Miss Louisville |
| 1960 | Alice Chumbley | Jamestown | 21 | Miss Bowling Green |
| 1959 | Carol Brown | Whitesburg | 19 | Miss Eastern State Teacher's College |
| 1958 | Sandra Smith | Harlan | ||
| 1957 | Jane Brock | Liberty | ||
| 1956 | Janene Simpson | Louisville | ||
| 1955 | Ann Gillock | Carrollton | ||
| 1954 | Margaret Diane Hunt | Lexington | ||
| 1953 | Emily Rucker | Berea | ||
| 1952 | Joy Williams | Louisville | ||
| 1951 | Dottye Nuckols | Bowling Green | ||
| 1950 | Mary Osborne | Wheelwright | ||
| 1949 | Betty Haverstock | Louisville | ||
| 1948 | Mildred Joanne Hollinger | Louisville | ||
| 1947 | Evelyn Murray | Louisville | ||
| Margaret Allen Hill | Louisville | |||
| 1946 | Mary Madonna Smith | Jenkins | ||
| Patricia Alden Fenton | Louisville | |||
| 1941 | Dorothy Slatten | Lexington | ||
| 1940 | Dorothy Slatten | Lexington | ||
| 1939 | Louise Holman | Pineville | ||
| Mattigene Palmore | Lexington | |||
| 1938 | Evelyn Cooper | Mt. Healthy | ||
| 1937 | Audrey Flaig | Bellevue | ||
| 1936 | Charlet Hiteman | Newport | ||
| Jean Megerle | Fort Thomas | 19 | ||
| 1935 | Jean Megerle | Fort Thomas | 18 | |
| 1933 | Lucille Rader | Berea | 14 | |
| 1926 | No Miss Kentucky | |||
| 1925 | No Miss Kentucky | |||
| 1924 | No Miss Kentucky | |||
| 1923 | No Miss Kentucky | |||
| 1922 | No Miss Kentucky |
