| Beauty pageant titleholder | |
| Born | Carole Anne-Marie Gist May 8, 1969 Detroit, Michigan, United States |
|---|---|
| Title(s) | Miss Michigan USA 1990, Miss USA 1990 |
| Major competition(s) |
Miss USA 1990 (Winner), Miss Universe 1990 (1st runner-up) |
Carole Anne-Marie Gist (born May 8, 1969) was the first African American woman to win the Miss USA title.[1] Gist first won the title of Miss Michigan USA and went on to win the Miss USA crown on March 2, 1990 in Wichita, Kansas.[1][2] She is of mixed African-American and Cherokee heritage.
The 1990 pageant had representatives from Georgia (Brenda Leithleiter), Alaska (Karin Elizabeth Meyer), Kentucky (Tiffany Tenfelde), South Carolina (Gina Tolleson, who as 1st runner-up then went on to represent the country at the Miss World pageant, winning the title) and Karin Hartz of New Jersey making up with Gist the Top 6 finalists.
Gist, a 5 ft 11 3⁄4 in (182 cm) Detroit native,[1] 20 years old at the time, eventually became first runner-up to Mona Grudt of Norway in the Miss Universe pageant of that same year.
She was also the first contestant from Michigan to win Miss USA, and broke the five-year streak of winners from Texas.
Gist was a graduate of Cass Technical High School in Detroit. At the time of her coronation, she was a junior marketing and management major at Northwood University at Midland, Michigan.[1] Carole co-hosted a show on the WORD gospel network. She is currently married with two children and works as an executive assistant for a construction company. She has also worked as a personal trainer and fitness instructor at Wayne State University in Detroit and is a graduate of the Northwood University in Midland, Michigan.
|
||||||||
|
|||||||||||
|
|||||||||||