Shauntay Hinton

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Shauntay Hinton
Shauntay Hinton

Shauntay Hinton won the Miss USA title in 2002 competing as Miss District of Columbia USA. Hinton hails from Starkville, Mississippi and graduated from Starkville High School in 1997. She qualified to represent the District of Columbia because she was attending Howard University at the time, studying broadcast communications. Hinton was working as a customer service representative for a local bank when she won the title and planned a dual career as a news anchor and entrepreneur with a network of health and beauty day spas..

Hinton was only the third African American to win the title. The pageant marked the first time that 4 out of the 5 five finalists were African American. There was controversy over this, and the fact that Miss California USA Tarah Peters, the only delegate in the top 12 to wear a one-piece swimsuit, was eliminated at the earliest stage in the competition.[1]

Hinton went on to compete in the Miss Universe pageant in Puerto Rico later that year. As of 2006, she is one of only three Miss USA winners not to have placed among the semifinalists at Miss Universe. The other two are Barbara Peterson and Kimberly Pressler.

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She plays a live action character, reporter Brittany Bhima, in the upcoming video game Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, due out in 2007.

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  1. ^ New York Post, April 14, 2002
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Preceded by
Kandace Krueger		 Miss USA
2002		 Succeeded by
Susie Castillo
Miss Universe Organization
Titleholders 2002
Miss Universe
Justine Pasek		 Miss USA
Shauntay Hinton		 Miss Teen USA
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Miss USA 2002 | State Delegates
AL: Tara Tucker | DC: Shauntay Hinton | KY: Elizabeth Arnold | MO: Melana Scantlin | OH: Kim Mullen | OK: Kasie Head | TN: Allison Alderson | TX: Kasi Kelly | VT: Brooke Angus | VA: Julie Laipply
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