# Miss North Dakota USA

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.
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 eight have competed at Miss Teen USA.
Codi Miller of Amidon was crowned Miss North Dakota USA 2024 on May 12, 2024 at the Watertown Events Center in Watertown, South Dakota. She will represent North Dakota at Miss USA 2024.

## Gallery of titleholders

* Molly Ketterling, Miss North Dakota USA 2015

## Results summary

* 1st runners-up: Audra Mari (2014), Caitlyn Vogel (2021)
* 3rd runners-up: Judy Ann Slayton (1966)
* 4th runners-up: Elizabeth Ann Jaeger (1983)
* Top 6: Juliette Spier (1996)
North Dakota holds a record of 5 placements at Miss USA.

## 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 at Miss USA | Special awards at Miss USA | Notes |
| 2024 | Codi Ann Miller | Amidon | 31 | Miss Western North Dakota | | | Previously Miss North Dakota Teen USA 2009 |
| 2023 | Monni Nyaribo | Grand Forks | 27 | Miss Badlands | | | |
| 2022 | SaNoah LaRocque | Belcourt | 25 | Miss Turtle Mountain | | | |
| 2021 | Caitlyn Vogel | Minot | 21 | Miss Minot | 1st runner-up | | Previously Miss North Dakota Teen USA 2019 1st runner-up at Miss Teen USA 2019 She is the second woman to make 1st runner-up at both Miss Teen USA and Miss USA |
| 2020 | Macy Christianson | Minot | 23 | | | | Previously Miss North Dakota 2016 Longest reigning Miss North Dakota USA at 1 year, 7 months and 4 days |
| 2019 | Samantha Redding | Burlington | 22 | | | | Older first cousin of Abigail Pogatshnik, Miss North Dakota USA 2018 Shortest reigning Miss North Dakota USA at 10 months and 17 days |
| 2018 | Abigail Pogatshnik | Bismarck | 19 | | | | Youngest contestant competing for Miss USA 2018 Younger first cousin of Samantha Redding, Miss North Dakota USA 2019 First Native American Miss North Dakota USA (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indian) |
| 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 | | Previously Miss North Dakota Teen USA 2011 1st runner-up at Miss Teen USA 2011 She is the first woman to make 1st runner-up at both Miss Teen USA and Miss USA Later Miss World America 2016 Top 11 and "Continental Queen of America" at Miss World 2016 |
| 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 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 | | | | 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 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 | 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 | DID NOT COMPETE | DID NOT COMPETE | DID NOT COMPETE | DID NOT COMPETE | DID NOT COMPETE | DID NOT COMPETE |
| 1963 | DID NOT COMPETE | DID NOT COMPETE | DID NOT COMPETE | DID NOT COMPETE | DID NOT COMPETE | DID NOT COMPETE | DID NOT COMPETE |
| 1962 | DID NOT COMPETE | DID NOT COMPETE | DID NOT COMPETE | DID NOT COMPETE | DID NOT COMPETE | DID NOT COMPETE | DID NOT COMPETE |
| 1961 | DID NOT COMPETE | DID NOT COMPETE | DID NOT COMPETE | DID NOT COMPETE | DID NOT COMPETE | DID NOT COMPETE | DID NOT COMPETE |
| 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 | | | | | | |
* ↑ Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant