Miss North Dakota USA

Miss North Dakota USA

Formation	1952
Type	Beauty pageant
Headquarters	Fargo
Location	North Dakota
Membership	Miss USA
Official language	English
Website	Official Miss North Dakota website

For the state pageant affiliated with Miss America, see Miss North Dakota.

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 four placements and has never won the Miss USA crown. Their highest placement was in 2014 when Audra Mari placed 1st runner-up to Nia Sanchez of Nevada. This marks North Dakota's first and highest placement since Juliette Spier reached Top 6 in 1996.

Two Miss North Dakota USA titleholders have competed at Miss America and six have competed at Miss Teen USA.

Results summary

• 1st runners-up: Audra Mari (2014)
• 3rd runners-up: Judy Ann Slayton (1966)
• 4th runners-up: Elizabeth Jaeger (1983)
• Top 6: Juliette Spier (1996)

Winners

Color key

•      Declared as Winner
•      Ended as runner-up
•      Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists

Year	Name	Hometown	Age	Placement at Miss USA	Special awards at Miss USA	Notes
2016	Halley Maas	Grand Forks	20	TBA
2015	Molly Ketterling	Elgin	20
2014	Audra Mari	Fargo	20	1st Runner-Up		Previously Miss North Dakota Teen USA 2011 and 1st Runner-Up at Miss Teen USA 2011. She is the only woman to make 1st Runner-Up at both Miss Teen USA and Miss USA.
2013	Stephanie Erickson	Fargo	23
2012	Jaci Stofferahn	Fargo	22			Contestant at National Sweetheart 2009.
2011	Brandi Schoenberg	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.
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	Braddock
1974	Judith Waltz	Langdon
1973	Barbara Lundeen	Minot
1972	Gail Schmeichel	Minot
1971	Joanne Engel	Minot
1970	Nancy Jean Perry	Minot
1969	Beckee Benz	Harvey
1968	Jewel Chrstensen	Fargo
1967	Jacqueline Linder	Fargo
1966	Judy Ann Slayton	Fargo		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

External links

• Official Miss North Dakota website