Formation | 1952 |
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Type | Beauty pageant |
Headquarters | Aiken |
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Membership | Miss USA |
Official language | English |
Key people | Janice McDonald Paula Miles |
Website | Official website |
Miss Alabama USA, previously known as Miss Alabama Universe, [1] is the beauty pageant that selects the representative for the state of Alabama in the Miss USA pageant, and the name of the title held by its winner. The pageant is directed by RPM Productions.
Alabama's most successful placement was in 1967, when Sylvia Hitchcock was crowned Miss USA. She later went on to be crowned Miss Universe 1967 as well. Alabama's most recent placement was in 2023, when Sophie Burzynski placed Top 20.
The current Miss Alabama USA is Sophie Burzynski of Auburn, Alabama, who was crowned on January 28, 2022 at Jay & Susie Gogue Performing Arts Center in Auburn. Burzynski represented Alabama at Miss USA 2023 and placed Top 20.
Alabama has a record of 31 placements at Miss USA.
Year | Name | Hometown | Age [lower-alpha 1] | Local title | Placement at Miss USA | Special awards at Miss USA | Notes |
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2024 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | ||
2023 | Sophie Burzynski [3] | Auburn | 21 | Miss Auburn-Opelika | Top 20 | ||
2022 | Katelyn Vinson [4] | Dothan | 21 | Miss Dothan | |||
2021 | Alexandria Flanigan [5] | Cullman | 24 | Miss Cullman | |||
2020 | Kelly Hutchinson [6] | Auburn | 22 | Miss Auburn-Opelika | 4th runner-up |
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2019 | Hannah McMurphy [8] | Tuscaloosa | 20 | Miss Indian Hills | |||
2018 | Hannah Brown [9] | Northport | 23 | Miss West Alabama |
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2017 | Baylee Smith [10] | Tuscaloosa | 19 | Miss Pike County | |||
2016 | Peyton Brown [11] | Eufaula | 21 | Miss Eufaula | Top 5 | Miss Congeniality |
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2015 | Madison Guthrie [13] | Hoover | 20 | Miss Hoover | Top 11 | ||
2014 | Jesica Ahlberg [14] | Birmingham | 23 | Miss Central Alabama | Top 20 | ||
2013 | Mary-Margaret McCord [15] | Gadsden | 23 | Miss Gadsden | 1st runner-up | ||
2012 | Katherine Elizabeth Webb [16] | Phenix City | 22 | Miss East Alabama | Top 10 | ||
2011 | Madeline Grace Mitchell [17] | Russellville | 21 | Miss Tuscaloosa | 2nd runner-up |
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2010 | Audrey Moore [18] | Hoover | 20 | Top 10 | Miss Photogenic [19] | ||
2009 | Rachel Philippona [20] | Dothan | 19 | ||||
2008 | Keisha Walding [21] | Dothan | 24 | ||||
2007 | Rebecca Moore | Vestavia Hills | 19 | Miss Photogenic | |||
2006 | Haleigh Stidham | Birmingham | 23 | Top 10 | |||
2005 | Jessica Tinney | Birmingham | 21 | ||||
2004 | Tara Darby | Birmingham | 22 | Top 10 | |||
2003 | Michelle Arnette | Dothan | 25 | 1st runner-up | |||
2002 | Tara Tucker | Birmingham | 23 | Top 12 |
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2001 | Laura Hoffman | Birmingham | 20 | ||||
2000 | Jina Mitchell | Trussville | 22 | 2nd runner-up | |||
1999 | Doree Walker | Gardendale | 24 | ||||
1998 | Paige Brooks | Mobile | 26 | ||||
1997 | Autumn Smith [22] | Chelsea | 22 | Top 10 |
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1996 | Benita Brooks [23] | Huntsville | 25 | ||||
1995 | Anna Mingus | Enterprise | 23 |
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1994 | Malaea Nelms [24] | Alexandria | 24 | ||||
1993 | Toni Johnson | Montgomery | 22 |
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1992 | Candace Michelle Brown | Auburn | 23 | 1st runner-up | |||
1991 | Candy Carley | Mobile | 25 | Top 11 | |||
1990 | Natalie Moore | Hoover | |||||
1989 | Sheri Mooney | Pelham | 20 | ||||
1988 | Rhonda Mooney | Pelham | 21 | ||||
1987 | Rhonda Garrett | Birmingham | 21 | ||||
1986 | Heather Howard [25] | Huntsville | 20 | ||||
1985 | Allison Sawyer | Birmingham | 20 | ||||
1984 | Kelly Flowers | Hueytown | 20 | ||||
1983 | Terri Lane | Birmingham | 20 | ||||
1982 | Lisa Wheeler [26] | Birmingham | 19 | ||||
1981 | JoAnne Henderson [27] | Tuscaloosa | 21 | Top 12 | |||
1980 | Pamela Rigas | Troy | 19 | 3rd runner-up |
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1979 | Rose Burch | Mobile | 20 | ||||
1978 | Eva Stancil | Gadsden | 22 | ||||
1977 | Cheryl Burgess [1] | Alexandria | 18 | ||||
1976 | Kyle Ellis | Decatur | 22 | ||||
1975 | Pamela Flowers | Headland | 19 | 1st runner-up | Miss Photogenic | ||
1974 | Iva Wyna Lavis | Birmingham | 19 | ||||
1973 | Diane Fouilhe | Enterprise | 19 | ||||
1972 | Elaine Barnhill | Robertsdale | 21 | ||||
1971 | Renee Smith | Mobile | 18 | ||||
1970 | Kathy Bryant | Bay Minette | 19 | ||||
1969 | Hitsy Parnell [29] | Thomasville | 20 | Top 15 | |||
1968 | Claudia Robinson | Mobile | 18 | Top 15 | |||
1967 | Sylvia Louise Hitchcock [30] | Tuscaloosa | 21 | Miss USA 1967 | |||
1966 | Susan Scott | Clanton | 19 | ||||
1965 | Leigh Stanford | Montgomery | 18 | Top 15 | |||
1964 | Pamela Jean Borgfeldt [31] | Anniston [31] | 21 | Top 15 | |||
1963 | Dinah Irene Armstrong | Montgomery | 19 | Top 15 | |||
1962 | Jerolyn Ridgeway | Fort Payne | 20 | ||||
1961 | Suellen Robinson [32] | Fairfax | 19 | 4th runner-up | |||
1960 | Margaret Gordon | Homewood | 21 | 2nd runner-up | |||
1959 | Pat Sullivan [33] | Birmingham | 21 | Top 15 | |||
1958 | Judith Lucille Carlson [34] | Birmingham | 18 | 2nd runner-up | |||
Did not compete between 1954—1957 | |||||||
1953 | Doris Edwards [35] | Birmingham | 25 | 2nd runner-up | |||
1952 | Gadsden | 24 |
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