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Revision as of 08:54, 13 July 2015
| Formation | 1952 |
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| Type | Beauty pageant |
| Headquarters | Milwaukee |
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| Membership | Miss USA |
Official language | English |
| 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 2008 the state pageant has been directed by Future Productions of Savage, Minnesota.
Wisconsin is one of the least successful states in the Miss USA system with only seven placements in over sixty years. The state's highest placing was Mary Cook earning 2nd runner-up in 1974, 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 and Elyzabeth Pham won Miss Photogenic in 1999.
Results summary
Placements
- 2nd runner-up: Mary Cook (1974)
- 3rd runner-up: Jodi Bonham (1967)
- Top 10: Bishara Dorre (2014)
- Top 15: Rita Younger (1954), Jeanne Boulay (1955), Kathryn Wituschek (1979), Caitlin Morrall (2007)
Awards
- Miss Photogenic: Elyzabeth Pham (1999)
- Miss Congeniality: Melissa Ann Young (2005)
- Best State Costume: Diane Modrow (1973)
Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age1 | Placement at Miss USA | Special awards at Miss USA | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Haley Laundrie | Lake Mills | 21 | |||
| 2014 | Bishara Dorre | Milwaukee | 24 | Top 10 | Previously Miss Wisconsin Teen USA 2006, Miss Wisconsin's Outstanding Teen 2007, top 10 at Miss America's Outstanding Teen, National American Miss 2010, former Milwaukee Bucks cheerleader | |
| 2013 | Christine (Chrissy) Zamora | Greenfield | 25 | |||
| 2012 | Emily Guerin | Monroe | 23 | |||
| 2011 | Jordan Morkin[1] | Green Bay | 21 | |||
| Shaletta Porterfield | Madison | 26 | Resigned after being charged with three counts of identity theft.[2] | |||
| 2010 | Courtney Lopez[3] | Racine | 20 | Previously Miss Wisconsin Teen USA 2008; 2013 Houston Texans Cheerleader | ||
| 2009 | Alexandra Wehrley | Pewaukee | 21 | Host of Oklahoma Live on KSBI and presenter of Miss USA 2015. | ||
| 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 Kim Eckerle | Milwaukee/Bloomington, Minn. | 25 | |||
| 2002 | Cortney Owen | Muskego | ||||
| 2001 | Kari Jo Dodge | Star Prairie | ||||
| 2000 | Samantha Jo Picha | Verona | ||||
| 1999 | Elyzabeth Lee Pham | Madison, Wis./San Diego, Calif. | 26 | Miss Photogenic | ||
| 1998 | Michelle Ann Altman | Green Bay | ||||
| 1997 | Tara Jo Johnson | Onalaska | 21 | 48th place/51 | ||
| 1996 | Mary Jo Stoker[4] | Madison/West Salem | 26 | Tied 38th place/51 | First African-American titleholder.[4] | |
| 1995 | Tanae Geisler | Hudson | 19 | 45th place/51 | Previously Miss Wisconsin Teen USA 1993 | |
| 1994 | Gina Marie Desmond | Milwaukee/San Diego, Calif. | 25 | 15th place/51 | ||
| 1993 | Heather Hanson | Madison | 48th place/51 | |||
| 1992 | Kelly Ann Bright | Greenfield, Wisconsin | 25 | 39th place/51 | ||
| 1991 | Kimberly Jean Totdahl[5] | Racine | 24 | 32nd place/51 | Previously Miss Wisconsin 1989 | |
| 1990 | Lynn Marie Mulcahy | Madison | 20 | 34th place/51 | ||
| 1989 | Sherri Baxter | Madison/Plymouth, Minn. | 19 | |||
| 1988 | Mary Kay Anderson[6] | St Francis | 22 | Previously Miss Wisconsin 1985.[6] | ||
| 1987 | Regina Maria Part | Stevens Point | 19 | Top Ten at Miss Wisconsin 1990 and 4th Runner-Up at Miss Wisconsin 1991 | ||
| 1986 | Bonnie Joan Bonnicksen | Madison | 23 | |||
| 1985 | Deborah Lynn Strauss[7] | Thiensville | 22 | 2nd Runner-Up at Miss Wisconsin 1984 | ||
| 1984 | Tamara Su Schoof | Milwaukee | 24 | |||
| 1983 | Susan Marie Peters | Menomonee Falls | ||||
| 1982 | Cheryl Ann Maslowski | Milwaukee | 21 | |||
| 1981 | Dawn Spreeman | Kaukauna | 18 | |||
| 1980 | Susan McGaffigan | Pewaukee | ||||
| 1979 | Kathryn Joy Wituschek | Milwaukee | 24 | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1978 | Cynthia Paulson | |||||
| 1977 | Vicki Payne | |||||
| 1976 | Susan Dawn Femrite | Madison | ||||
| 1975 | Rita Pedder | Madison | ||||
| 1974 | Mary Lynn Cook | Wind Lake | 2nd runner-up | |||
| 1973 | Diane Lynn Modrow | Green Bay | Best State Costume | |||
| 1972 | Suzan Nass | |||||
| 1971 | Pamela Martin | |||||
| 1970 | Joann Soller | Eau Claire | ||||
| 1969 | Christine Sachen | |||||
| 1968 | Janice Kopps | |||||
| 1967 | Jodi Bonham | 3rd runner-up | ||||
| 1966 | Janet Driscoll | |||||
| 1965 | Judith Achtor | |||||
| 1964 | Carolyne Limquite | |||||
| 1963 | Lynn Korchunoff | |||||
| 1962 | Sherri Mathson | |||||
| 1961 | Karen Reisweber | |||||
| 1960 | Sharyn Chalik | |||||
| 1959 | Charlene Krause | |||||
| 1958 | Did Not Compete | |||||
| 1957 | Natalie Lueck | |||||
| 1956 | Priscilla Perkins | |||||
| 1955 | Jeanne Marianne Boulay | Fond du Lac | Semi-finalist | |||
| 1954 | Rita Younger | Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1953 | Jacque Kimmel | |||||
| 1952 | Jeannie Eleanor Huston | La Crosse | withdrew |
1 Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant
References
- ^ "Miss Wisconsin USA Jordan Marie Morkin". Miss Universe.
- ^ "Miss Wisconsin USA's dreams of becoming Miss USA shattered as she's charged with ID theft". Daily Mail. 11 May 2011.
- ^ "New Miss Wisconsin Crowned". WSAW. 28 September 2009.
- ^ a b "Miss Wisconsin on a Mission". The Telegraph-Herald. 25 November 1995.
- ^ "Miss Wisconsin USA crowned". The Milwaukee Sentinel. 15 January 1991.
- ^ a b "Miss Wisconsin USA was Miss Wisconsin America". The Telegraph-Herald. 2 November 1987.
- ^ "Special Dream: Pageant winner wants to be kept busy". The Milwaukee Journal. 9 January 1985.
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