The Miss West Virginia competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the U.S. state of West Virginia in the Miss America Pageant.
In the fall of 2018, the Miss America Organization terminated the Miss West Virginia organization's license as well as licenses from Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.
[1][2] The Miss America Organization reinstated the license to Shelley Nichols-Franklin of Martinsburg who was the former executive director of Miss Berkeley County (WV) between 2000 and 2019.
Jennifer Reuther of Wheeling was crowned Miss West Virginia 2024 on June 22, 2024, at the Airborne Event Center in Martinsburg, West Virginia.
2nd Runner Up at Miss West Virginia USA Pageant[citation needed]