Miss California

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The Miss California competition selects the representative for the state of California in the Miss America competition. Six women have gone on to win Miss America (but none since 1983). The pageant began in Santa Cruz in 1924 and was held there in 1925. During the years 1926 through 1946 in years when the Miss California pageant was held, the competition was primarily in San Francisco and Venice, California. In 1947, it returned to Santa Cruz and was held there annually until 1985, after which it moved to San Diego in response to years of protests and a "Myth California" counter pageant organized by local feminist activists led by Ann Simonton and Nikki Craft. The pageant was held in Visalia, California from 2023‒2025. On January 9, 2026, the Miss California Organization announced that the Miss California competition will return to Fresno, California, at the Saroyan Theatre, where the pageant was held from 1994‒2022. Sharlize True Trujillo of Los Angeles was crowned Miss California on...

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