# Miss District of Columbia USA

The Miss District of Columbia USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the District of Columbia in the Miss USA pageant. Four District of Columbia representatives have won the Miss USA title. Of those two, Deshauna Barber and Kára McCullough won successive Miss USA titles in 2016 and 2017. The most recent placement was Cassie Baloue in 2023, placing Top 20.
Two Miss District of Columbia USA titleholders previously held the Miss District of Columbia Teen USA title and four have competed at Miss America, one as Miss New Jersey.
The current titleholder is Kleo Torres of Washington, D.C., was crowned Miss District of Columbia USA 2024 on June 26, 2024 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C.. She will represent the District of Columbia at Miss USA 2024.

## Gallery of titleholders

* Bobbi Johnson, Miss District of Columbia USA 1964 & Miss USA 1964
* Angela McGlowan, Miss District of Columbia USA 1994
* Shauntay Hinton, the second Miss District of Columbia USA to win Miss USA (2002)
* Mercedes Lindsay, Miss District of Columbia USA 2007 and Jasmine Alexis, Miss District of Columbia Teen USA 2007
* Nicole White, Miss District of Columbia USA 2009
* Mackenzie Green, Miss District of Columbia USA 2010
* Deshauna Barber, Miss District of Columbia USA 2016 & Miss USA 2016
* Kára McCullough, Miss District of Columbia USA 2017 & Miss USA 2017
* Ryann Richardson, replacement Miss District of Columbia USA 2017

## Results summary
### Placements

* Miss USAs: Bobbie Johnson (1964), Shauntay Hinton (2002), Deshauna Barber (2016), Kára McCullough (2017)
* 1st runners-up: Michelle Metrinko (1963), Liane Angus (2001)
* 4th runners-up: Diana Batts (1965), Steffanee Leaming (1984)
* Top 10/12: Nikki Phillipp (1970), Susan Pluskoski (1971), Janet Gail Greenawalt (1972), Nancy Plachta (1973), Robin Utterback (1974), Mary Lamond (1975), Sharon Sutherland (1977), Catherine Staples (1990), Candace Allen (2006), Cordelia Cranshaw (2019)
* Top 15/16/20: Laura Farley (1954), Helen Sweeney (1962), Myra Chudy (1967), Sue Counts (1966), Cierra Jackson (2020), Faith Porter (2022), Cassie Baloue (2023), Kleo Torres (2024)
* District of Columbia holds a record of 26 placements at Miss USA.

### Awards

* Miss Congeniality: Elva Anderson (1988), Napiera Groves (1997)

## Winners
### Color key

* Declared as Winner
* Ended as runner-up
* Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age | Local title | Placement | Special awards | Notes |
| 2024 | Kleo Torres | Washington, D.C. | 26 | Miss Nation's Capital | Top 20 | | |
| 2023 | Cassie Baloue | Washington, D.C. | 25 | Miss Freedom | Top 20 | | |
| 2022 | Faith Porter | Washington, D.C. | 23 | Miss Brookland | Top 16 | | Previously Miss Earth USA Air 2022 |
| 2021 | Sasha Perea | Washington, D.C. | 27 | Miss City Center | | | Previously Miss Virginia World 2016 & 2017 2nd runner-up at Miss World America 2016 Top 16 at Miss World America 2017 |
| 2020 | Cierra Jackson | Washington, D.C. | 27 | | Top 16 | | Previously Miss District of Columbia 2016 |
| 2019 | Cordelia Cranshaw | Washington, D.C. | 26 | | Top 10 | | |
| 2018 | Bryce Armstrong | Washington, D.C. | 21 | | | | |
| 2017 | Ryann Richardson | Washington, D.C. | 27 | | did not compete | did not compete | Originally first runner-up, assumed the title when Kára McCullough won Miss USA Went on to become Miss Black America 2018 |
| 2017 | Kára McCullough | Washington, D.C. | 25 | | Miss USA 2017 | | Born in Italy Top 10 at Miss Universe 2017 |
| 2016 | Jasmine Jones | Washington, D.C. | 27 | | did not compete | did not compete | Originally placed in the semifinals after first runner-up Kára McCullough declined to take the title (when she was preparing for the following year's state pageant), assumed the title when Deshauna Barber won Miss USA |
| 2016 | Deshauna Barber | Washington, D.C. | 26 | | Miss USA 2016 | | First active-duty soldier at the time of crowning Member of the United States Armed Forces Top 9 at Miss Universe 2016 |
| 2015 | Lizzy Olsen | Washington, D.C. | 25 | | | | |
| 2014 | Ciera Nicole Butts | Washington, D.C. | 23 | | | | Previously Miss Maryland United States 2013 Winner of Oxygen's reality series Last Squad Standing |
| 2013 | Jessica Frith | Washington, D.C. | 26 | | | | |
| 2012 | Monique Thompkins | Washington, D.C. | 23 | | | | Washington Redskins Cheerleader |
| 2011 | Heather Swann | Washington, D.C. | 22 | | | | |
| 2010 | MacKenzie Green | Washington, D.C. | 21 | | | | |
| 2009 | Nicole White | Washington, D.C. | 20 | | | | Previously Miss District of Columbia Teen USA 2004 |
| 2008 | Chelsey Rodgers | Washington, D.C. | 25 | | | | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2006 Current executive director of Miss District of Columbia USA pageants |
| 2007 | Mercedes Lindsay | Washington, D.C. | 26 | | | | |
| 2006 | Candace Allen | Washington, D.C. | 22 | | Top 10 | | |
| 2005 | Sarah-Elizabeth Langford | Washington, D.C. | 25 | | | | Previously Miss District of Columbia 2002; contestant and winner on Fear Factor in 2005 Miss USA episode #5.29 |
| 2004 | Tiara Dews | Washington, D.C. | 21 | | | | Previously Miss District of Columbia Teen USA 2000, top 10 at Miss Teen USA 2000 |
| 2003 | Michelle Dollie Wright | Washington, D.C. | 26 | | | | Previously Miss District of Columbia Teen USA 1995 |
| 2002 | Diahann Adair Doyen | Washington, D.C. | 23 | | did not compete | did not compete | Originally first runner-up; succeeded the title when Shauntay Hinton won Miss USA |
| 2002 | Shauntay Hinton | Washington, D.C. | 23 | | Miss USA 2002 | | Non-semi-finalist at Miss Universe 2002 |
| 2001 | Liane Angus | Washington, D.C. | 24 | | 1st runner-up | | |
| 2000 | Juel April Casamayor | Washington, D.C. | 18 | | | | Washington Redskins Cheerleader |
| 1999 | Amy Alderson | Washington, D.C. | 27 | | | | Sister of Miss Tennessee Teen USA 1994, top 6 at Miss Teen USA 1994 and Miss Tennessee USA 2002, Allison Alderson |
| 1998 | Zanice Lyles | Washington, D.C. | 24 | | | | |
| 1997 | Napiera Groves | Washington, D.C. | 21 | | | Miss Congeniality | |
| 1996 | La Chanda Jenkins | Washington, D.C. | 19 | | | | |
| 1995 | Marci Andrews | Washington, D.C. | 27 | | | | |
| 1994 | Angela McGlowan | Washington, D.C. | 25 | | | | |
| 1993 | Alena Neves | Washington, D.C. | 18 | | | | |
| 1992 | Wanda Jones | Washington, D.C. | 20 | | | | |
| 1991 | Lakecia Smith | Washington, D.C. | 27 | | | | |
| 1990 | Catherine Staples | Washington, D.C. | 23 | | Top 12 | | |
| 1989 | Somaly Susan Sieng | Washington, D.C. | 24 | | | | |
| 1988 | Elva Anderson | Washington, D.C. | 27 | | | Miss Congeniality | |
| 1987 | Edwina Richard | Washington, D.C. | 18 | | | | |
| 1986 | Desiree Keating | Washington, D.C. | | | | | Previously Miss District of Columbia 1984 |
| 1985 | Christal Chacon | Washington, D.C. | | | | | |
| 1984 | Steffanee Leaming | Washington, D.C. | 21 | | 4th runner-up | | |
| 1983 | Julie Anne Warner | Washington, D.C. | | | | | |
| 1982 | Lori Esteep | Washington, D.C. | | | | | |
| 1981 | Belinda Johnson | Washington, D.C. | | | | | |
| 1980 | Marianne Ritter | Washington, D.C. | 18 | | | | |
| 1979 | Cynthia Ramsay | Washington, D.C. | 19 | | | | |
| 1978 | Wanda Clineman | Washington, D.C. | 23 | | | | |
| 1977 | Sharon Sutherland | Washington, D.C. | 25 | | Top 12 | | |
| 1976 | Nancy Stitt | Washington, D.C. | 20 | | | | Nancy Sitt competed at Miss USA, but Mary Theresa Clair is listed as Miss DC USA 1976 on the Miss DC USA website. |
| 1975 | Mary Lamond | Washington, D.C. | 27 | | Top 12 | | |
| 1974 | Robin Lee Utterback | Washington, D.C. | 22 | | Top 12 | | |
| 1973 | Nancy Plachta | Washington, D.C. | 22 | | Top 12 | | |
| 1972 | Janet Gail Greenawalt | Washington, D.C. | 18 | | Top 12 | | |
| 1971 | Sue Lowden | Washington, D.C. | 19 | | Top 12 | | Later Miss New Jersey 1973 as Suzanne Plummer 2nd Runner-up to Miss America 1974 |
| 1970 | Nikki Phillipp | Washington, D.C. | 27 | | Top 15 | | |
| 1969 | Shelley Gosman | Washington, D.C. | | | | | |
| 1968 | Diane Mothershead | Washington, D.C. | 23 | | | | Previously semi-finalist at Miss World USA 1967 |
| 1967 | Myra Chudy | Washington, D.C. | 26 | | Top 15 | | |
| 1966 | Sue Counts | Washington, D.C. | 19 | | Top 15 | | |
| 1965 | Dianna Lynn Batts | Washington, D.C. | | | 4th runner-up | | Model on The Price Is Right, later Miss USA World 1965 and 1st runner up in Miss World 1965 |
| 1964 | Bobbi Johnson | Washington, D.C. | 19 | | Miss USA 1964 | | Top 15 at Miss Universe 1964 |
| 1963 | Michele Metrinko | Washington, D.C. | | | 1st runner-up | | Later won the Miss New York City World 1963 and Miss USA World 1963 pageants, and placed as a top 14 semi-finalist at Miss World 1963. Her sister Marsha Metrinko also competed at Miss USA 1963 as Miss Maryland and in Miss America 1963 as Miss New York City. Candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2010 U.S. House of Rep. election in Delaware for Delaware's at-large congressional district under her married name Michele Rollins. |
| 1962 | Helen Sweeney | Washington, D.C. | 27 | | Top 16 | | |
| 1961 | Patricia Brunette | | | | | | |
| 1960 | Doris Lee Jones | | | | | | |
| 1959 | Shirley Ann Hobbs | | | | | | |
| 1958 | Peggy Wolf | | | | | | |
| 1957 | did not compete | did not compete | did not compete | did not compete | did not compete | did not compete | did not compete |
| 1956 | Joanne Holler | | | | | | |
| 1955 | did not compete | did not compete | did not compete | did not compete | did not compete | did not compete | did not compete |
| 1954 | Laura Farley | Washington, D.C. | 21 | | Top 19 | | |
| 1953 | did not compete | did not compete | did not compete | did not compete | did not compete | did not compete | did not compete |
| 1952 | did not compete | did not compete | did not compete | did not compete | did not compete | did not compete | did not compete |
* ↑ Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant