Miss Alabama USA
The Miss Alabama USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Alabama in the Miss USA pageant.
Alabama is one of the more successful and (recently) consistent states at Miss USA. Although they have had a number of runners-up, finalists and semi-finalists, they have only had one Miss USA. Even more successfully, Sylvia Hitchcock, Miss USA 1967, went on to win the Miss Universe title. Two Miss Alabama USA titleholders have placed first runner-up to winners from California: Candace Michelle Brown was first runner-up to Shannon Marketic in 1992, and Pamela Flowers was first runner-up to Summer Bartholomew in 1975.
Three Miss Alabama USA titleholders were former Miss Alabama Teen USAs. Of these three, two placed better in the Miss competition than they did as teens.
Results summary
Placements
- Winners: Sylvia Hitchcock (1967 - Miss Universe)
- 1st runners-up: Pamela Flowers (1975), Candace Michelle Brown (1992), Michelle Arnette (2003)
- 2nd runners-up: Doris Edwards (1953), Judith Carlson (1958), Margaret Gordon (1960), Jina Mitchell (2000), Madeline Mitchell (2011)
- 3rd runners-up: Pamela Rigas (1980)
- 4th runners-up: Suellen Robinson (1961)
- Top 10: Autumn Smith (1997), Tara Darby (2004), Haleigh Stidham (2006), Audrey Moore (2010)
- 'Top 11/12: JoAnne Henderson (1981), Candy Carley (1991), Tara Tucker (2002)
- Top 15: Pat Sullivan (1959), Dinah Irene Armstrong (1963), Pamela Jean Borgfeldt (1964), Leigh Sanford (1965), Claudia Robinson (1968), Hitsy Parnell (1969)
Awards
Winners
| Year |
Name |
Hometown |
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Placement at Miss USA |
Special awards at Miss USA |
Notes |
| 2011 |
Madeline Mitchell[1] |
Russellville |
22 |
2nd runner-up |
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| 2010 |
Audrey Moore |
Birmingham |
20 |
Top 10, finished in 6th at Miss USA 2010 |
Miss Photogenic |
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| 2009 |
Rachel Philippona |
Dothan |
19 |
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| 2008 |
Keisha Walding |
Dothan |
24 |
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| 2007 |
Rebecca Moore |
Vestavia Hills |
19 |
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Miss Photogenic |
Previously 1st runner-up to Miss Alabama Teen USA 2006 |
| 2006 |
Haleigh Stidham |
Birmingham |
23 |
Top 10, finished 6th at Miss USA 2006 |
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| 2005 |
Jessica Tinney |
Birmingham |
21 |
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Previously 1st runner-up to Miss Alabama Teen USA 2002 |
| 2004 |
Tara Darby |
Birmingham |
22 |
Top 10 |
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| 2003 |
Michelle Arnette |
Dothan |
25 |
1st runner-up |
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| 2002 |
Tara Tucker |
Birmingham |
23 |
Top 12, Finishing in 9th Place overall |
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Previously Miss Alabama Teen USA 1997 |
| 2001 |
Laura Hoffman |
Birmingham |
20 |
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| 2000 |
Jina Mitchell |
Trussville |
22 |
2nd runner-up |
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| 1999 |
Doree Walker |
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| 1998 |
Paige Brooks |
Mobile |
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| 1997 |
Autumn Smith |
Chelsea |
22 |
Top 10, finished 8th at Miss USA 1997 |
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Previously Miss Alabama Teen USA 1993 |
| 1996 |
Benita Brooks |
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25 |
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| 1995 |
Anna Mingus |
Enterprise |
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Previously Miss Alabama Teen USA 1988, 4th runner up at Miss Teen USA 1988 |
| 1994 |
Malaea Nelms |
Florence |
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| 1993 |
Toni Johnson |
Montgomery |
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First African-American Miss Alabama USA |
| 1992 |
Candace Michelle Brown |
Auburn |
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1st runner-up |
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| 1991 |
Candy Carley |
Mobile |
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Top 11, finishing in 8th place |
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Had her crown and clothes bought in preparation for the Miss USA pageant stolen from her car prior to the national pageant.[2] |
| 1990 |
Natalie Moore |
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| 1989 |
Sheri Mooney |
Pelham |
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| 1988 |
Rhonda Mooney |
Pelham |
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| 1987 |
Rhonda Garrett |
Birmingham |
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Current director of the Miss Alabama USA and Miss Alabama Teen USA pageants and former director of the Miss Arkansas USA, Miss Arkansas Teen USA, Miss Mississippi USA, and Miss Mississippi Teen USA pageants under her married name, Rhonda Garrett-Gilliam |
| 1986 |
Heather Howard |
Huntsville |
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| 1985 |
Allison Sawyer |
Birmingham |
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| 1984 |
Kelly Flowers |
Hueytown |
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| 1983 |
Terri Lane |
Birmingham |
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| 1982 |
Lisa Wheeler |
Birmingham |
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Miss Teen All American 1980 |
| 1981 |
JoAnne Henderson |
Tuscaloosa |
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Top 12, finishing in 6th place |
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semifinalist in Miss World USA 1980 |
| 1980 |
Pamela Rigas |
Troy |
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3rd runner-up |
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Later Miss Ohio 1983, 4th runner up at Miss America 1984, Ohio's Junior Miss 1978 |
| 1979 |
Rose Burch |
Mobile |
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| 1978 |
Eva Stancil |
Birmingham |
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Stancil was arrested in 1977 for possessing cocaine and marijuana with intent to distribute.[3] She was fired as head of the New Orleans Saints cheerleading squad in 1978 for failing to disclose this information.[4] |
| 1977 |
Cheryl Burgess |
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| 1976 |
Kyle Ellis |
Decatur |
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| 1975 |
Pamela Flowers |
Headland |
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1st runner-up |
Miss Photogenic |
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| 1974 |
Wyna Lavis |
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| 1973 |
Diane Fouilhe |
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| 1972 |
Elaine Barnhill |
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| 1971 |
Renee Smith |
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| 1970 |
Kathy Bryant |
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| 1969 |
Hitsy Parnell |
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Top 15 |
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| 1968 |
Claudia Robinson |
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Top 15 |
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| 1967 |
Sylvia Hitchcock |
Tuscaloosa |
21 |
Winner |
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Won the Miss Universe 1967 title |
| 1966 |
Susan Scott |
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| 1965 |
Leigh Sanford |
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Top 15 |
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| 1964 |
Pamela Borgfeldt |
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Top 15 |
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| 1963 |
Dinah Armstrong |
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Top 15 |
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| 1962 |
Jerolyn Ridgeway |
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1st runner-up in the 1961 Miss Sun Fun USA Pageant |
| 1961 |
Suellen Robinson |
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4th Runner-up |
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| 1960 |
Margaret Gordon |
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2nd runner-up |
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| 1959 |
Pat Sullivan |
Birmingham |
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Top 15 |
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Competed in the 1960 Miss Dixie Pageant |
| 1958 |
Judith Carlson |
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2nd runner-up |
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| 19532 |
Doris Edwards |
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2nd runner-up |
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| 1952 |
Doris Edwards |
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- 1 Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant
- 2 No titleholder was elected 1954-1957
References
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