Miss North Carolina USA
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The Miss North Carolina USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state North Carolina in the Miss USA pageant. This state is part of the RPM Productions group.
In 2005, Miss North Carolina USA Chelsea Cooley won the Miss USA crown and place in the top 10 at Miss Universe. Cooley is the only former Miss North Carolina Teen USA to win the Miss title, although not the first to have competed at Miss Teen USA.
Two Miss North Carolina USAs have also competed at Miss America.
[edit] List of winners
- 2007 - Erin O'Kelley -- former Miss North Carolina Teen USA 2001
- 2006 - Samantha Holvey
- 2005 - Chelsea Cooley (Miss USA and Finalist at Miss Universe) -- former Miss North Carolina Teen USA 2000
- 2004 - Ashley Puleo (2nd runner-up at Miss USA)
- 2003 - Kristen Luneberg -- former Miss Rhode Island Teen USA 1998
- 2002 - Alison English
- 2001 - Monica Palumbo (Miss Congeniality)
- 2000 - Portia Lyndell Johnson
- 1999 - Joy Hall
- 1998 - Vera Morris (Miss Congeniality)
- 1997 - Crystal McLauren-Coney
- 1996 - Jessica Lee McMinn
- 1995 - Michelle Mauney
- 1994 - Lynn Jenkins (2nd runner-up at Miss USA)
- 1993 - Christa Tyson
- 1992 - Tess Elliott (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
- 1991 - Pat Arnold (Finalist at Miss USA and Miss Photogenic)
- 1990 - Altman Allen
- 1989 - Jacqueline Padgatt
- 1988 - Tammy Tolar
- 1987 - Donna Wilson -- future Miss North Carolina (America) 1987
- 1986 - Rhonda Nobles (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
- 1985 - Kate Kenney
- 1984 - Cookie Noak (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
- 1983 - Allison P. Pinson
- 1982 - Jeannie W. Boger
- 1981 - Lisa Colleen Swift
- 1980 - Lori Boggs
- 1979 - Dianne Jamerson (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
- 1978 - Kathryn Norman
- 1977 - Vikki Verbyla
- 1976 - Dianne Bowen
- 1975 - Constance Ann Dorn (2nd runner-up at Miss USA) -- former Miss North Carolina (America) 1972
- 1974 - Marcia Burton (4th runner-up at Miss USA)
- 1973 - Vivian Craig
- 1972 - Deborah Ann Falls (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
- 1971 - Mary Rudroff
- 1970 - Susan Bodsford
- 1969 - Unknown
- 1968 - Kelli Ann Moore
- 1965-1967 - Unknown
- 1964 - Did Not Compete
- 1963 - Trudy Ann Cauthen
- 1962 - Brenda Joyce Smith
- 1961 - Marie Clyburn
- 1960 - Lyndia Ann Tarlton (3rd runner-up at Miss USA)
- 1959 - Peggy Anne Brown
- 1958 - Carol Jean Edwards
- 1957 - Peggy Ann Dennis
- 1956 - Shirley Bagwell (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
- 1955 - Mary Grace Ratliffe
- 1954 - Ann Pickett
- 1953 - Libby Walker
- 1952 - Doris M. Stanley
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