Miss New Mexico USA

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Miss New Mexico USA
Formation1952
Type Beauty pageant
Headquarters El Paso
Location
Membership Miss USA
Official language
English
Website Official website

The Miss New Mexico USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of New Mexico in the Miss USA pageant. It is directed by Laura's Productions based in El Paso, Texas. [1]

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New Mexico achieved many placements in the 1960s to the '80s and produced one Miss USA, Mai Shanley in 1984. The most recent placement was Bianca Wright in 2023, placing in the Top 20.

Dominique Ehrl of Santa Fe was crowned as Miss New Mexico USA 2025 on August 17, 2025 at the NMSU Center for the Arts in Las Cruces. She will represent New Mexico at Miss USA 2025.

Results summary

Awards

Winners

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YearNameHometownAge [a] Local titlePlacement at Miss USASpecial awards at Miss USANotes
2025 Dominique Ehrl Santa Fe 26Miss Land of EnchantmentTBATBA
2024 Mackenzie Sydow Albuquerque 22Miss Uptown
2023 Bianca Wright Anthony 28Miss AnthonyTop 20
2022 Suzanne Perez Portales 25Miss PortalesTop 12First Filipino American Miss New Mexico USA
2021 Christa Schafer Las Cruces 26Miss Las Cruces
2020 Cecilia Rodriguez South Valley 27Miss South ValleyLongest reigning Miss New Mexico USA at 1 year, 6 months and 20 days
2019 Alejandra Gonzalez[ citation needed ] Las Cruces 26Miss Las Cruces1st runner-up
2018 Kristen Leyva [2] Las Cruces 23Miss Billy The Kid
2017 Ashley Mora Albuquerque 25Miss Land of Enchantment
  • Previously Miss New Mexico World 2015
    • Top 22 at Miss World America 2015
2016 Naomie Germain Bernalillo 22Miss Paradise Hills
2015 Alexis Duprey Alamogordo 24Miss Mesilla ValleyTriple crown winner
2014 Kamryn Blackwood Farmington 22Miss Farmington
2013 Kathleen Elizabeth Danzer[ citation needed ] Rio Rancho 24Miss Rio Ancho
2012 Jessica Martin Las Cruces 21Miss Las Cruces
2011 Brittany Toll Las Cruces 22Miss Billy The KidTop 16
2010 Rosanne Dene Aguilar Sunland Park 23Miss Sunland ParkSister of Raelene Aguilar, Miss New Mexico USA 2008 & Miss New Mexico Teen USA 2000.
2009 Bianca Matamoros-Koonce Albuquerque 22Miss Zia
2008 Raelene Aguilar Sunland Park 26Miss Sunland Park
2007 Casey Messer Alamogordo 23Miss Land of Enchantment
2006 Onawa Lacy Gallup 23Miss Highland
2005 Jacqueline Deaner Las Cruces 25
2004 Jenna Hardin Lovington 21Semi-finalist, Finishing in 13th Place
2003 Alina Ogle Albuquerque 21Semi-finalist, Finishing in 6th Place
2002 Ellen Colyer Farmington
2001 Jennifer Adams Las Cruces
2000 Christina Ortega Las Cruces
1999 Michelle Rios Santa Teresa 23Top 5, Finishing in 5th Place
1998 Maya Strunk Farmington
1997 Tanya Harris Tatum
1996 Layla Linn
1995 Jacqueline Grice Albuquerque
1994 Jill Vasquez Albuquerque 24
1993 Daniela Johnson Albuquerque Mother of Annika Bennion, Miss Montana's Outstanding Teen 2020–21, and Bronté Bennion, Miss Montana's Outstanding Teen 2022
1992 Charlotte Holland
1991 Tiffany Danton
1990 Larissa Canaday
1989 Traci Brubaker Alamogordo 1st runner up in Miss Oktoberfest 1988
1988 Stephanie Storrie Clovis 2nd runner up in Miss Oktoberfest 1987
1987 Kriston "Kiki" Killgore Albuquerque 19Semi-finalist, Finishing in 7th PlaceWinner/1st Place - Best State Costume
1986 Heather Howell Farmington
1985 Brenda Denton Hobbs 211st runner-up
1984 Mai Therese Shanley Alamogordo 21Miss AlamogordoMiss USA 1984

First Asian American Miss New Mexico USA
Semi-finalist at Miss Universe 1984

1983 Kristin Larsen Santa Fe Miss Santa Fe
1982 Lisa Allen Las Cruces
1981 Lise Gabrielle Dominique Thevenet Las Cruces 23Graduated from New Mexico State University in 1979 and died at age 55 on August 2, 2013, in Greenwood Village, Colorado
1980 Tonia Pamelym Moya [3] Albuquerque 18Miss BernalilloOriginally first runner-up, but due to represent New Mexico at Miss USA, due to Patrick being initially disqualified by contest officials, on grounds that she lived in Texas. [3] Eventually, the latter was able to participate at the national pageant when she got a federal court in El Paso to restore her title. [4]
Kathy Dawn Patrick [3] Anthony 19Miss AnthonyTop 12 [4]
  • Miss Oktoberfest 1980 as Miss Texas
1979 Michele Sandoval Albuquerque Miss Photogenic
1978 Marlena Garland Las Cruces 4th runner-up
1977 Denise Funderburk Albuquerque Semi-finalist, Finishing in 12th Place
1976 Jonelle Bergquist Albuquerque Semi-finalist, Finishing in 10th Place
1975 Maxine Whisler Albuquerque
1974 Jan Nilsson Las Cruces
1973 Carolyn Cline Albuquerque 20
1972 Donna Frances Reel Albuquerque Top 12
1971 Debbie Clary
1970 Theresa Ann Phillips [5] Las Cruces 18
1969 Mary GardSemi-finalist, Finishing in 9th Place
1968 Bonnie Lynn Tafoya Las Cruces 4th runner-upTop 15 Best in Swimsuit [6]
1967 Clydia Newell [7] Clovis 21
1966 Susan FranzRoswell19
1965 Judith Lee "Judy" Baldwin [8] Clovis 192nd runner-up
1964 Did Not Compete
1963 Sandra Joyce "Sandi" Fullingim [9] Albuquerque 18Top 15
1962 Herma Loy ElliottPortales
1961 Georgi Edwards
1960 Kaye Smith
1959 Carol Jones
Sue IngersollWithdrew admidst controversy over the Catholic church's regulations around swimsuit competitions. [10]
1958 Sandi Bullis
1957 Patricia Stafford
1956 Jackie Brown Albuquerque
1955 Joan SchwartzSemi-finalist
1953-1954 Did Not Compete
1952 Kay Nail
  1. Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant

References

  1. "Home Page". Laura's Productions. Retrieved July 15, 2019.
  2. "NMSU engineering alumna crowned Miss New Mexico USA". College of Engineering. 2018-02-02. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
  3. 1 2 3 "She'll have to compete in Texas". The Longview Daily News. 7 February 1980. p. 25. Retrieved 16 October 2025 via Newspapers.com.
  4. 1 2 Goggin, Terry (16 May 1980). "South Carolina coed is new Miss USA". Hattiesburg American . p. 9. Retrieved 9 October 2025 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "All together now..." Tulare Advance-Register. 14 May 1970. p. 5. Retrieved 15 October 2025 via Newspapers.com.
  6. "SWIMSUIT WINNERS". Fort Worth Star-Telegram . 16 May 1968. p. 62. Retrieved 7 October 2025 via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Pride Of The Southwest". Arizona Daily Star . 16 May 1967. p. 25. Retrieved 14 October 2025 via Newspapers.com.
  8. "RELAXING FROM MISS USA REHEARSAL". The Jackson Sun . 1 June 1965. p. 2. Retrieved 14 October 2025 via Newspapers.com.
  9. "MISS U.S.A. AND 14 RUNNERS-UP". Iowa City Press-Citizen . 18 July 1963. p. 20. Retrieved 8 October 2025 via Newspapers.com.
  10. "Quits Contest". The Albuquerque Tribune. 20 July 1959. Retrieved 20 June 2023.