Miss District of Columbia USA

Miss District of Columbia USA

Formation	1952
Type	Beauty pageant
Headquarters	Washington, D.C.
Location	District of Columbia
Membership	Miss USA
Official language	English
Website	Miss District of Columbia USA official website

For the state pageant affiliated with Miss America, see Miss District of Columbia.

Nicole White, Miss District of Columbia USA 2009

Shauntay Hinton, the second Miss District of Columbia USA to win Miss USA (2002)

Mercedes Lindsay, Miss District of Columbia USA 2007 and Jasmine Alexis, Miss District of Columbia Teen USA 2007

The Miss District of Columbia USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the District of Columbia in the Miss USA pageant.

One of the more successful states at Miss USA, the District of Columbia is one of 15 states to win Miss USA more than once and one of only twelve states to win the Miss Congeniality award twice. From 1970 to 1975, they had a streak of six consecutive top 12 placements. This was broken in 1976, but achieved again in 1977.

Two Miss District of Columbia USA titleholders previously held the Miss District of Columbia Teen USA title and three have competed at Miss America.

The current titleholder is Deshauna Barber. However, since DeShauna was crowned Miss USA 2016, protocol denotes her first runner up, Kara McCullough, as the new Miss District of Columbia USA as DeShauna fulfills her reign as Miss USA.

Results summary

Placements

• Miss USA winners: Bobbie Johnson (1964), Shauntay Hinton (2002), Deshauna Barber (2016)
• First runners-up: Michelle Metrinko (1963), Liane Angus (2001)
• Fourth runners-up: Diana Batts (1965), Steffanee Leaming (1984)
• Top 10: Candace Allen (2006)
• Top 12: Nikki Phillipp (1970), Susan Pluskoski (1971), Janet Gail Greenawalt (1972), Nancy Plachta (1973), Robin Utterback (1974), Mary Lamond (1975), Sharon Sutherland (1977), Catherine Staples (1990)
• Top 15: Laura Farley (1954), Helen Sweeney (1962), Myra Chudy (1967), Sue Counts (1966)

Awards

• Miss Congeniality: Elva Anderson (1988), Napiera Groves (1997)

Winners

Color key

•   Declared as Winner
•   Ended as runner-up
•   Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists

Year	Name	Hometown	Age1	Placement at Miss USA	Special awards at Miss USA	Notes
2016	Deshauna Barber	Washington, D.C.	26	Miss USA 2016		Previously Miss Virginia International 2011
2015	Lizzy Olsen	Washington, D.C.	26
2014	Ciera Nicole Butts	Washington, D.C.	23			Previously Miss Maryland United States 2013
2013	Jessica Frith	Washington, D.C.	26
2012	Monique Tompkins	Washington, D.C.	23			Washington Redskins Cheerleader
2011	Heather Swann	Washington, D.C.	22
2010	MacKenzie Green	Washington, D.C.
2009	Nicole White	Washington, D.C.	20			Previously Miss District of Columbia Teen USA 2004
2008	Chelsey Rodgers	Washington, D.C.	25			Contestant at National Sweetheart 2006
2007	Mercedes Lindsay	Washington, D.C.	26
2006	Candace Allen	Washington, D.C.	22	Top 10 Finalist
2005	Sarah-Elizabeth Langford	Washington, D.C.	26			Previously Miss District of Columbia 2002 / Was contestant and winner on Fear Factor in 2005 on the Miss USA episode #5.29
2004	Tiara Dews	Washington, D.C.	21			Previously Miss District of Columbia Teen USA 2000, top 10 at Miss Teen USA 2000
2003	Michelle Dollie Wright	Washington, D.C.	26			Previously Miss District of Columbia Teen USA 1995
2002	Shauntay Hinton	Starkville, MS		Miss USA 2002
2001	Liane Angus	Washington, D.C.		1st runner-up
2000	Juel April Casamayor	Washington, D.C.	26			Washington Redskins Cheerleader
1999	Amy Alderson
1998	Zanice Lyles
1997	Napiera Groves	Washington, D.C.	21		Miss Congeniality
1996	La Chanda Jenkins		19
1995	Marci Andrews
1994	Angela McGlowan
1993	Alena Neves	Washington, D.C.
1992	Wanda Jones
1991	Lakecia Smith
1990	Catherine Staples		23	Semi-finalist, Finishing in 7th Place
1989	Somaly Susan Sieng
1988	Elva Anderson				Miss Congeniality
1987	Edwina Richard
1986	Desiree Keating	Washington, D.C.				Previously Miss District of Columbia 1984
1985	Christal Chacon	Washington, D.C.
1984	Steffanee Leaming	Washington, D.C.	21	4th runner-up
1983	Julie Anne Warner	Washington, D.C.
1982	Lori Esteep	Washington, D.C.
1981	Belinda Johnson	Washington, D.C.
1980	Marianne Ritter
1979	Cynthia Ramsay
1978	Wanda Clineman
1977	Sharon Sutherland			Semi-finalist
1976	Nancy Stitt					Nancy Sitt competed at Miss USA, but Mary Theresa Clair is listed as Miss DC USA 1976 on the Miss DC USA website.
1975	Mary Lamond			Semi-finalist
1974	Robin Lee Utterback			Semi-finalist
1973	Nancy Plachta	Adelphi, MD		Semi-finalist
1972	Janet Gail Greenawalt			Semi-finalist
1971	Susan Pluskoski			Semi-finalist		later Miss New Jersey 1973 as Suzanne Plummer, 2nd runner up to Miss America 1974
1970	Nikki Phillipp			Semi-finalist
1969	Shelley Gosman	Beltsville, MD
1968	Diane Mothershead					semifinalist in Miss World USA 1967
1967	Myra Chudy			Semi-finalist
1966	Sue Counts			Semi-finalist
1965	Dianna Lynn Batts	Falls Church, VA		4th runner-up		Model on The Price Is Right, Miss World USA 1965, 1st runner up in Miss World 1965
1964	Bobbie Johnson	Alexandria, VA		Miss USA 1964		Semi-finalist at Miss Universe 1964
1963	Michele Metrinko			1st runner-up		Later won the Miss World USA pageant and placed as a top 14 semi-finalist at Miss World 1963. Her sister Marsha Metrinko also competed at Miss USA 1963 as Miss Maryland and in Miss America 1963 as Miss New York City.
1962	Helen Sweeney			Semi-finalist
1961	Patricia Brunette
1960	Doris Lee Jones
1959	Shirley Ann Hobbs
1958	Peggy Wolf
1957	did not compete
1956	Joanne Holler
1955	did not compete
1954	Laura Farley			Semi-finalist
1953	did not compete
1952

¹ Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant 1951 Aletha Agee

References

Bertha Pincus 1932

External links

• Miss District of Columbia USA official website