Miss Louisiana USA
The Miss Louisiana USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Louisiana in the Miss USA pageant.
Louisiana is one of the most successful states at Miss USA and is one of only seven states to have three or more Miss USA winners.
Three Miss Louisiana USA titleholders previously held the Miss Louisiana Teen USA title, including Ali Landry, who won the Miss USA 1996 title. Jennifer Dupont, Miss Louisiana USA 2000, is one of only seven women who have competed in the Miss Teen USA, Miss USA and Miss America pageants. Jeanne Vaughn Thompson, Miss Louisiana USA 1952 and 1953, is the only woman to ever compete at Miss USA twice. She is also the only woman to hold a Miss USA state title twice.
Louisiana won both the first-ever Miss Congeniality and Miss Photogenic awards given to a Miss USA state delegate. Thompson was the winner of the Miss Congeniality award in 1953.
The second Miss Congeniality award was also given to another contestant from Louisiana, Judy Fletcher in 1960. That year, during the era when both Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants were held at the same time, Fletcher actually tied with a Miss Universe contestant from Burma for the award.
Sharon Brown, who represented Louisiana in 1961, won the first Miss Photogenic award given to a Miss USA state delegate. She also won the Miss USA title, the first to obtain that feat.
Louisiana is one only two states to have won both the Miss USA title and the Miss Photogenic award in the same year on two separate occasions (Brown in 1961 and Landry in 1996).
Miss Louisiana USA is produced by RPM Productions, which also produces the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA state pageants for Alabama, North Carolina and South Carolina. RPM Productions' headquarters is in Aiken, South Carolina.
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[edit] Results summary
[edit] Placements
- Winners: Eurlyne Howell (1958), Sharon Brown (1961), Ali Landry (1996)
- 1st runners-up: Jeanne Thompson (1952)
- 2nd runners-up: Lisa Lynn Moss (1981)
- 3rd runners-up: Pamela Forrest (1983), Sarie Joubert (1985), Elizabeth Primm (1989)
- 4th runners-up: Robyn Sanders (1976)
- Top 6: Shirelle Hebert (1994), Elizabeth Coxe (1995)
- Top 10: Debbie Delhomme (1998)
- Top 12: Bonnie Martin (1972), Storm Hensley (1973), Karen Hoff (1974), Christy Saylor (1992), Anne-Katherine Lene (2002)
- Top 15: Mary Lobianco (1959), Judy Fletcher (1960), Elizabeth McNulty (2007)
- Top 16: Erin Edmiston (2012)
[edit] Awards
- Miss Photogenic: Sharon Renee Brown (1961), Kathy Herbert (1968), Elizabeth Primm (1989), Ali Landry (1996)
- Miss Congeniality: Jeanne Vaughn Thompson (1953) and Judy Rebecca Fletcher (1960)
- Best Costume: 2nd Place: Elizabeth Primm (1989)
[edit] Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age1 | Placement at Miss USA | Special awards at Miss USA | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Kristen Girault[1] | Metairie | 21 | New Orleans Saints cheerleader | ||
| 2012 | Erin Edmiston | Lafayette | 22 | Top 16 | ||
| 2011 | Page Pennock | Shreveport | 20 | |||
| 2010 | Sara Brooks | Houston, Texas | 22 | She won Louisiana state title while a student at Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette. | ||
| 2009 | Lacey Minchew | Baton Rouge | 24 | Previously Miss Teen America 2002, representing Georgia. | ||
| 2008 | Michelle Berthelot | Hammond | ||||
| 2007 | Elizabeth McNulty | Lafayette | 25 | Top 15 (12th) | ||
| 2006 | Christina Cuenca | Chalmette | 26 | |||
| 2005 | Candice Stewart | Metairie | 21 | Previously Miss Louisiana Teen USA 2002. | ||
| 2004 | Melissa McConnell | Ruston | 27 | |||
| 2003 | Brittney Rogers | Shreveport | 20 | Contestant on The Amazing Race 8. | ||
| 2002 | Anne-Katherine Lene | New Orleans | Semi-finalist (7th) | |||
| 2001 | Heather Hayden | Amite | ||||
| 2000 | Jennifer Dupont | Bossier City | Previously Miss Louisiana Teen USA 1998, Miss Louisiana 2004 and 1st runner up at Miss America 2005 | |||
| 1999 | Melissa Bongiovanni | Baton Rouge | ||||
| 1998 | Debbie Delhomme | Lafayette | Semi-finalist (7th) | |||
| 1997 | Nikole Viola | Walker | ||||
| 1996 | Ali Landry | Breaux Bridge | 22 | Winner | Miss Photogenic | Previously Miss Louisiana Teen USA 1990 (Top 12 at Miss Teen USA 1990), Top 6 finalist at Miss Universe 1996 |
| 1995 | Elizabeth Coxe | Springfield | 24 | Finalist (6th) | ||
| 1994 | Shirelle Hebert | Arabi | Finalist (4th) | |||
| 1993 | Jennifer Mitchell | Leesville | ||||
| 1992 | Christy Saylor | Baton Rouge | Semi-finalist (12th) | |||
| 1991 | Melinda Murphy | West Monroe | ||||
| 1990 | Jeanne Burns | Baton Rouge | Currently evening news anchor for NBC affiliate WVLA in Baton Rouge. | |||
| 1989 | Elizabeth Primm | Houma | 3rd Runner-up | Miss Photogenic, 2nd Place Best Costume | Miss USA at Miss Asia Pacific 1989, did not place; Star Search 1990 Spokesmodel contestant. | |
| 1988 | Rhonda Vinson | Shreveport | ||||
| 1987 | Carol Carter | Shreveport | Previously Miss Louisiana 1985 | |||
| 1986 | Celia Brady | Olla | ||||
| 1985 | Sarie Joubert | Shreveport | 3rd Runner-up | 1st runner up at Miss International 1985 as Miss USA. | ||
| 1984 | Rusanne Jourdan | Baton Rouge | ||||
| 1983 | Pamela Forrest | Baton Rouge | 3rd Runner-up | |||
| 1982 | Lisa Michael | Baton Rouge | ||||
| 1981 | Lisa Moss | Shreveport | 2nd Runner-up | Later Miss World USA 1981 and Top 5 finalist at Miss World 1981 | ||
| 1980 | Kelly Bonin | Baton Rouge | ||||
| 1979 | Lisa Anderson | Gretna | 19 | |||
| 1978 | Tauny Hanes | Baton Rouge | ||||
| 1977 | Patti Rosenbalm | Bossier City | ||||
| 1976 | Robyn Sanders | Winnfield | 4th Runner-up | |||
| 1975 | Rhonda Shear | New Orleans | Television program host and actor, best known for her role as host of the USA Network's weekend movie show, USA Up All Night | |||
| 1974 | Karen Hoff | Bossier City | Semi-finalist | |||
| 1973 | Storm Hensley | Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1972 | Bonnie Martin | Ashland | 21 | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1971 | Diana Risenstein | |||||
| 1970 | Nadine Robertson | Bossier City | ||||
| 1969 | Patricia Dupre | Washington | ||||
| 1968 | Kathy Hebert | Miss Photogenic | ||||
| 1967 | Diane Madere | Houma | 21 | |||
| 1965 | Terri Sommers | Shreveport | 19 | |||
| 1964 | Linda Graves | Shreveport | ||||
| 1963 | Peggy Romero | |||||
| 1962 | Diana Jane Smith | Oak Ridge | Semifinalist in Miss World USA 1962 | |||
| 1961 | Sharon Brown | Minden | Winner | Miss Photogenic | 4th runner up at Miss Universe 1961 | |
| 1960 | Judy Fletcher | Semi-finalist | Miss Congeniality | |||
| 1959 | Mary Lobianco | Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1958 | Eurlyne Howell | Bossier City | Winner | 3rd runner up at Miss Universe 1958 | ||
| 1957 | Earlyn Regouffre | |||||
| 1956 | Cecile Morris | Baton Rouge | 19 | |||
| 1955 | Merlin Garcia | Gretna | 19 | |||
| 1954 | Sadie Vinson | New Orleans | Finalist in the 1955 Miss Dixie Pageant | |||
| 1953 | Jeanne Thompson | Semi-finalist | Miss Congeniality | Only woman ever to compete in Miss USA pageant twice. Previously Miss Louisiana 1951. Also competed in the 1952 Maid of Cotton Pageant | ||
| 1952 | 1st Runner-up |
1 Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant
[edit] References
- ^ "Kristen Girault Crowned Miss Louisiana USA 2013". Beauty Pageant News. October 28, 2012. Retrieved January 24, 2012.
[edit] External links
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