Miss North Dakota USA
The Miss North Dakota USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of North Dakota in the Miss USA pageant.
North Dakota has had only three placements and has never won the Miss USA crown. Their highest placement was in 1966 when Judy Slayton placed 3rd runner-up to Maria Remenyi of California. No Miss North Dakota USA has placed since Juliette Spier in 1996.
Two Miss North Dakota USA titleholders have competed at Miss America and five have competed at Miss Teen USA.
Results summary
- 3rd runners-up: Judy Slayton (1966)
- 4th runners-up: Elizabeth Jaeger (1983)
- Top 6: Juliette Spier (1996)
Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age[^] | Placement at Miss USA | Special awards at Miss USA | Notes
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Stephanie Erickson[1] | Fargo | 23 | Fourth runner-up at Miss North Dakota USA 2010; fourth runner-up at Miss North Dakota 2012 (MAO) | ||
| 2012 | Jaci Stofferahn | Fargo | 22 | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2009. | ||
| 2011 | Brandi Schoenberg[2] | Mohall | 26 | Previously Miss North Dakota International 2007. | ||
| 2010 | Taylor Ellen Kearns | Fargo | 20 | Previously Miss North Dakota Teen USA 2007. | ||
| 2009 | Kelsey Erickson | Grand Forks | 22 | |||
| 2008 | Stephanie Tollefson | New Rockford | 21 | Replaced Bethany Nesheim on Dec 16, 2007 when she moved to another state. | ||
| 2007 | Rachel Mathson | Thief River Falls | 25 | |||
| 2006 | Kimberly Krueger | Fargo | 21 | |||
| 2005 | Chrissa Miller | Bismarck | 20 | |||
| 2004 | Jennifer Smith | Fargo | 27 | Contestant at National Sweetheart 1998. | ||
| 2003 | Samantha Edwards | Fargo | 23 | |||
| 2002 | Amy Elkins | Riverdale | ||||
| 2001 | Michelle Guthmiller | Palermo | ||||
| 2000 | Amie Hoffner | Minot | ||||
| 1999 | Shayna Bank | |||||
| 1998 | Alison Nesemeier | Casselton | Previously Miss North Dakota Teen USA 1994. | |||
| 1997 | Lauri Marie Gapp | Fargo | 25 | |||
| 1996 | Juliette Spier | 20 | Top 6 finalist | Previously Miss North Dakota Teen USA 1992. | ||
| 1995 | Jean Stallmo | |||||
| 1994 | Amy Lantz | |||||
| 1993 | Jennifer Seminary | Fargo | Previously Miss North Dakota Teen USA 1988. | |||
| 1992 | Camie Fladeland | |||||
| 1991 | Mischelle Chistensen | |||||
| 1990 | Kari Larson | Previously Miss North Dakota Teen USA 1984; Top 10 at Miss Teen USA 1984. | ||||
| 1989 | Carla Christofferson | Tolna | Previously placed fourth runner-up to Miss North Dakota 1987 and 1988, and won the swimsuit competition in 1987.[3] | |||
| 1988 | Kate Sevde | Williston | ||||
| 1987 | Shelley Gangness | Fargo | ||||
| 1986 | Beth Remmick | Minot | ||||
| 1985 | Regina Schatz | Linton | ||||
| 1984 | Suzanne Lewis | Fargo | ||||
| 1983 | Elizabeth Jaeger | Fargo | 4th runner-up | Later Miss North Dakota 1985 | ||
| 1982 | Tammy Martinson | Lansford | ||||
| 1981 | Laurie Saarinen | Jamestown | Later Miss Minnesota 1982 | |||
| 1980 | Kim Thompson | Minot | ||||
| 1979 | Renae Hermanson | Crosby | ||||
| 1978 | Theresa Olson | Fargo | ||||
| 1977 | Barbara Redlin | Ellendale | ||||
| 1976 | Linda Paulson | Bowman | Mother of Kirsten Norderhaug, Miss Wisconsin Teen USA 2010. | |||
| 1975 | Renae Saville | |||||
| 1974 | Judith Waltz | |||||
| 1973 | Barbara Lundien | |||||
| 1972 | Gail Schmeichel | |||||
| 1971 | Joanne Engel | |||||
| 1970 | Nancy Jean Perry | Minot | ||||
| 1969 | Beckee Benz | |||||
| 1968 | Jewel Chrstensen | |||||
| 1967 | Jacqueline Linder | |||||
| 1966 | Judy Ann Slayton[4] | 3rd runner-up | 3rd runner up at Miss American Beauty 1965, official preliminary to Miss International. | |||
| 1965 | Patricia Dodge | |||||
| 1964 | DID NOT COMPETE | |||||
| 1963 | ||||||
| 1962 | ||||||
| 1961 | ||||||
| 1960 | Twila Fleckton | |||||
| 1959 | Patricia McGinley | |||||
| 1958 | Diana Spidahl | |||||
| 1957 | Anne-Marit Studness | |||||
| 1956 | Mary Harroun | |||||
| 1955 | Joan Smith | |||||
| 1954 | Jane Hewitt | |||||
| 1953 | Marilyn Caufield | |||||
| 1952 | Gloria Rowe | |||||
^ Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant
References
- ^ "Stephanie Erickson Crowned Miss North Dakota USA 2013". Beauty Pageant News. November 19, 2012. Retrieved January 19, 2013.
- ^ [Brandi Schoenberg Crowned as New Miss North Dakota USA 2011 http://misscontest.blogspot.com/2010/11/brandi-schoenberg-crowned-as-new-miss.html]
- ^ www.willistonherald.com/articles/2006/12/30/local_news/news5.txt
- ^ "Pageant prayer answered, Miss USA gives thanks". The Baltimore Sun. May 23, 1966. Retrieved 19 November 2010.
Judy Ann Slayton, of North Dakota, was third runner- up.