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Formation | 1952 |
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Type | Beauty pageant |
Headquarters | Savage |
Location | |
Membership | Miss USA |
Official language | English |
Key people | Denise Wallace Craig Heitkamp |
Website | Official website |
The Miss North Dakota USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of North Dakota in the Miss USA pageant. Since 2010, it is directed by Future Productions based in Savage, Minnesota. [1]
North Dakota's highest placements were in 2014 and 2021, when Audra Mari and Caitlyn Vogel, respectively, placed as the first runner-up. Both had formerly placed as the first runner-up in Miss Teen USA 2011 and Miss Teen USA 2019, respectively.
Three Miss North Dakota USA titleholders have competed at Miss America and seven have competed at Miss Teen USA.
Monni Nyaribo of Grand Forks was crowned Miss North Dakota USA 2023 on June 11, 2023, at the Empire Arts Center in Grand Forks, North Dakota. She represented North Dakota at Miss USA 2023.
North Dakota holds a record of 5 placements at Miss USA.
Year | Name | Hometown | Age [lower-alpha 1] | Placement at Miss USA | Special awards at Miss USA | Notes |
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2024 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | ||
2023 | Monni Nyaribo | Grand Forks | 27 | |||
2022 | SaNoah LaRocque | Belcourt | 25 | |||
2021 | Caitlyn Vogel | Minot | 21 | 1st runner-up |
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2020 | Macy Christianson | Minot | 23 |
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2019 | Samantha Redding | Burlington | 22 |
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2018 | Abigail Pogatshnik | Bismarck | 19 |
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2017 | Raquel Wellentin | Fargo | 24 | Born in the Philippines | ||
2016 | Halley Maas | Grand Forks | 22 | |||
2015 | Molly Ketterling | Elgin | 20 | |||
2014 | Audra Mari | Fargo | 19 | 1st runner-Up |
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2013 | Stephanie Erickson[ citation needed ] | Fargo | 23 | |||
2012 | Jaci Stofferahn | Fargo | 22 | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2009. | ||
2011 | Brandi Schoenberg [3] | Mohall | 26 | Previously Miss North Dakota International 2007. | ||
2010 | Taylor 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 Mary Edwards | Fargo | 23 | Found dead at her north-side Minneapolis, Minn. home on June 14, 2016, at age 37. | ||
2002 | Amy Elkins | Riverdale | 26 | * Cousin of Nicci Elkins, Miss North Dakota Teen USA 1991 | ||
2001 | Michelle Guthmiller | Palermo | 24 | |||
2000 | Amie Hoffner | Minot | 18 | |||
1999 | Shayna Bank | Fargo | 19 | |||
1998 | Alison Nesemeier | Casselton | 24 | Previously Miss North Dakota Teen USA 1994. | ||
1997 | Lauri Marie Gapp | Fargo | 25 | |||
1996 | Juliette Spier | Fargo | 20 | Top 6 | Previously Miss North Dakota Teen USA 1992 | |
1995 | Jean Stallmo | Fargo | 23 | |||
1994 | Amy Lantz | Fargo | 24 | |||
1993 | Jennifer Seminary | Fargo | 24 | Previously Miss North Dakota Teen USA 1988 | ||
1992 | Camie Fladeland | Fargo | 21 | |||
1991 | Mischelle Chistensen | Fargo | 20 | |||
1990 | Kari Larson | Fargo | 24 |
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1989 | Carla Christofferson | Tolna | Previously placed fourth runner-up to Miss North Dakota 1987 and 1988, and won the swimsuit competition in 1987. [4] | |||
1988 | Kate Sevde | Williston | ||||
1987 | Shelley Gangness | Fargo | ||||
1986 | Beth Remmick | Minot | ||||
1985 | Regina Schatz | Linton | ||||
1984 | Suzanne Lewis | Fargo | ||||
1983 | Elizabeth Ann Jaeger | Fargo | 24 | 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 | 25 | |||
1978 | Theresa Olson | Fargo | 25 | |||
1977 | Barbara Redlin | Ellendale | 24 | |||
1976 | Linda Faye Paulson | Bowman | 22 | Mother of Kirsten Norderhaug, Miss Wisconsin Teen USA 2010. | ||
1975 | Renae Saville | Braddock | 22 | |||
1974 | Judith Waltz | Langdon | 19 | |||
1973 | Barbara Lundeen | Minot | 19 | |||
1972 | Gail Schmeichel | Minot | 27 | |||
1971 | Joanne Engel | Minot | 23 | |||
1970 | Nancy Jean Perry | Minot | 20 | |||
1969 | Beckee Benz | Harvey | 18 | |||
1968 | Jewel Christensen | Fargo | 24 | |||
1967 | Jacqueline Linder | Fargo | 26 | |||
1966 | Judy Ann Slayton [5] | Fargo | 26 | 3rd runner-up | 3rd runner up at Miss American Beauty 1965, official preliminary to Miss International. | |
1965 | Patricia Dodge | Fargo | 22 | |||
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 Wentz | |||||
1952 | Gloria Rowe |
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