Gallery of titleholders
Melissa Ann Young, Miss Wisconsin USA 2005
Anna Piscitello, Miss Wisconsin USA 2006
Caitlin Morrall, Miss Wisconsin USA 2007
Bishara Dorre, Miss Wisconsin USA 2014 and Miss Wisconsin Teen USA 2006
| Formation | 1952 |
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| Type | Beauty pageant |
| Headquarters | Savage |
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Membership | Miss USA |
Official language | English |
Key people | Denise Wallace Craig Heitkamp |
| Website | Official website |
The Miss Wisconsin USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Wisconsin in the Miss USA pageant. Since 2007, the state pageant has been directed by Future Productions of Savage, Minnesota. [1]
Wisconsin is one of the least successful states in the Miss USA system with only eight placements in over sixty years as the state has yet to win the Miss USA title. The most recent placement was Alexis Maria Loomans in 2023, placing 2nd runner-up that is the state highest placing since Mary Cook earning 2nd runner-up in 1974 as well, and they had no placements from 1979 until 2007, when Caitlin Morrall made the top fifteen. In 2005, Melissa Ann Young won the Miss Congeniality award. Elyzabeth Lee Pham won Miss Photogenic in 1999 and Kate Redeker at Miss USA 2016.
Tori Trittin of Madison was crowned Miss Wisconsin USA 2024 on June 15, 2024, at VAHS Performing Arts Center in Verona. She will represent Wisconsin for the title of Miss USA 2024.
Wisconsin holds a record of 8 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 | Tori Trittin | Madison | 22 | Miss South Central Wisconsin |
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| 2023 | Alexis Maria Loomans | Waunakee | 21 | Miss Dane County | 2nd runner-up | ||
| 2022 | Hollis Brown | Milwaukee | 26 | Miss Southeast Wisconsin | |||
| 2021 | Samantha Catherine Keaton | Milwaukee | 20 | Miss Milwaukee |
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| 2020 | Gabriella Deyi | Madison | 27 | Longest reigning Miss Wisconsin USA at 1 year, 8 months and 15 days | |||
| 2019 | Danika Tramburg | Richfield | 22 |
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| 2018 | Regina Gray | Milwaukee | 27 |
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| 2017 | Skylar Witte [3] | Schofield | 19 | Formerly an event coordinator for Future Productions | |||
| 2016 | Kate Redeker | Sheboygan | 19 | Miss Photogenic |
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| 2015 | Haley Laundrie | Lake Mills | 21 | ||||
| 2014 | Bishara Dorre [4] | Milwaukee | 24 | Top 10 |
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| 2013 | Chrissy Zamora | Greenfield | 25 | ||||
| 2012 | Emily Guerin | Monroe | 23 | ||||
| 2011 | Jordan Morkin [7] | Green Bay | 21 | Originally first runner-up, assumed the title after Shaletta Porterfield's resignation. Competed at Miss USA. | |||
| Shaletta Porterfield | Madison/West Bloomfield, MI | 26 | did not compete | Resigned on May 12, 2011, after being charged with three counts of identity theft. [8] | |||
| 2010 | Courtney Lopez [9] | Franksville | 20 |
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| 2009 | Alexandra Wehrley | Pewaukee | 21 | Host of Oklahoma Live on KSBI, co-host of the Miss USA 2015 pageant, and host of the Miss USA 2017 preliminary competition. | |||
| 2008 | Michelyn Butler | Madison | 25 | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2007 | |||
| 2007 | Caitlin Morrall | Burlington | 23 | Top 15 | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2003 | ||
| 2006 | Anna Piscitello | Hartland | 20 | ||||
| 2005 | Melissa Ann Young | Menasha | 25 | Miss Congeniality | |||
| 2004 | Jenna Schultz | Pewaukee | 20 | ||||
| 2003 | Judith Eckerle | Milwaukee | 26 | ||||
| 2002 | Cortney Owen | Muskego | 18 | ||||
| 2001 | Kari Jo Dodge | Star Prairie | 19 | ||||
| 2000 | Samantha Jo Picha | Verona | 25 | ||||
| 1999 | Elyzabeth Pham | Madison | 26 | Miss Photogenic | |||
| 1998 | Michelle Altman | Green Bay | 21 | ||||
| 1997 | Tara Johnson | Onalaska | 21 | ||||
| 1996 | Mary Stoker [10] | Madison/West Salem | 26 | First African American titleholder [10] | |||
| 1995 | Tanae Geisler | Hudson | 19 |
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| 1994 | Gina Desmond | Milwaukee | 25 | ||||
| 1993 | Heather Hanson | Madison/Cascade | 20 | ||||
| 1992 | Kelly Bright | Greenfield | 25 | ||||
| 1991 | Kimberly Totdahl [11] | Racine | 24 |
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| 1990 | Lynn Mulcahy | Madison | 20 | ||||
| 1989 | Sherri Baxter | Madison/Plymouth, MN | 19 | ||||
| 1988 | Mary Anderson [12] | St Francis | 22 |
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| 1987 | Regina Part | Stevens Point | 19 | ||||
| 1986 | Bonnie Bonnicksen | Madison | 23 | ||||
| 1985 | Deborah Strauss [13] | Thiensville | 22 | ||||
| 1984 | Tamara Su Schoof | Milwaukee | 24 | ||||
| 1983 | Susan Peters | Menomonee Falls | 20 | ||||
| 1982 | Cheryl Maslowski | Milwaukee | 21 | ||||
| 1981 | Dawn Spreeman | Kaukauna | 18 | ||||
| 1980 | Susan McGaffigan | Pewaukee | 21 | ||||
| 1979 | Kathryn Wituschek | Milwaukee | 24 | Semi-finalist | |||
| 1978 | Cynthia Paulson | Milwaukee | 24 | ||||
| 1977 | Vicki Payne | Milwaukee | 24 | ||||
| 1976 | Susan Femrite | Madison | 19 | ||||
| 1975 | Rita Pedder | Madison | 22 | ||||
| 1974 | Mary Cook | Wind Lake | 23 | 2nd runner-up | |||
| 1973 | Diane Modrow | Green Bay | 20 | Best State Costume (Tied with Miss Texas USA) | |||
| 1972 | Suzan Nass | Menomonie | 19 | ||||
| 1971 | Pamela Martin | Milwaukee | 25 | ||||
| 1970 | Joann Soller | Eau Claire | 20 | ||||
| 1969 | Christine Sachen | Racine | 21 | ||||
| 1968 | Janice Kopps | Milwaukee | 21 | ||||
| 1967 | Jodi Bonham | Milwaukee | 23 | 3rd runner-up | |||
| 1966 | Janet Driscoll | Milwaukee | 22 | ||||
| 1965 | Judith Ann Achtor | Milwaukee | 22 | Died on January 18, 2016, in Milwaukee at age 70. | |||
| 1964 | Carolyne Limquite | Milwaukee | 26 | ||||
| 1963 | Lynn Korchunoff | Milwaukee | 18 | ||||
| 1962 | Sherri Mathson | Milwaukee | 20 | ||||
| 1961 | Karen Reisweber | Milwaukee | 21 | ||||
| 1960 | Sharyn Chalik | Milwaukee | 22 | ||||
| 1959 | Charlene Krause | Milwaukee | 24 | ||||
| 1958 | Did not compete | ||||||
| 1957 | Natalie Lueck | Milwaukee | 25 | ||||
| 1956 | Priscilla Perkins | Milwaukee | 23 | ||||
| 1955 | Jeanne Marianne Boulay | Fond du Lac | 19 | Semi-finalist | |||
| 1954 | Rita Delores Younger | Baraboo | 21 | Semi-finalist | |||
| 1953 | Jacque Kimmel | Milwaukee | 24 | ||||
| 1952 | Jeannie Eleanor Huston | Milwaukee | 20 | Withdrew | |||
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