Miss District of Columbia USA

The Miss District of Columbia USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the District of Columbia in the Miss USA pageant. Four District of Columbia representatives have won the Miss USA title. Of those two, Deshauna Barber and Kára McCullough won successive Miss USA titles in 2016 and 2017. The most recent placement was Cierra Jackson in 2020, placing Top 16.

For the state pageant affiliated with Miss America, see Miss District of Columbia. For the state pageant affiliated with Miss World America, see Miss District of Columbia World.
Miss District of Columbia USA
Formation1952
TypeBeauty pageant
HeadquartersWashington, D.C.
Location
Membership
Miss USA
Official language
English
WebsiteOfficial website

Two Miss District of Columbia USA titleholders previously held the Miss District of Columbia Teen USA title and three have competed at Miss America.

Cierra Jackson, a native of Columbus, Georgia, was crowned Miss District of Columbia USA 2020 on January 19, 2020 at the Carpenter Theater in Richmond, Virginia. She represented District of Columbia for the title of Miss USA 2020 and placed in the Top 16.

Results summary

Placements
  • Miss USAs: Bobbie Johnson (1964), Shauntay Hinton (2002), Deshauna Barber (2016), Kára McCullough (2017)
  • 1st runners-up: Michelle Metrinko (1963), Liane Angus (2001)
  • 4th runners-up: Diana Batts (1965), Steffanee Leaming (1984)
  • Top 10/12: Nikki Phillipp (1970), Susan Pluskoski (1971), Janet Gail Greenawalt (1972), Nancy Plachta (1973), Robin Utterback (1974), Mary Lamond (1975), Sharon Sutherland (1977), Catherine Staples (1990), Candace Allen (2006), Cordelia Cranshaw (2019)
  • Top 15/16: Laura Farley (1954), Helen Sweeney (1962), Myra Chudy (1967), Sue Counts (1966), Cierra Jackson (2020)
  • District of Columbia holds a record of 23 placements at Miss USA.

Awards
  • Miss Congeniality: Elva Anderson (1988), Napiera Groves (1997)

Winners
Color key
  •   Declared as Winner
  •   Ended as runner-up
  •   Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
Year Name Hometown Age1 Placement at Miss USA Special awards at Miss USA Notes
2020 Cierra Jackson Washington, D.C. 27 Top 16 Previously Miss District of Columbia 2016
2019 Cordelia Cranshaw Washington, D.C. 26 Top 10
2018 Bryce Armstrong Washington, D.C. 21
2017 Ryann Richardson Washington, D.C. 27 Did not compete
  • Originally first runner-up, assumed the title when Kára McCullough won Miss USA
  • Went on to become Miss Black America 2018
Kára McCullough Washington, D.C. 25 Miss USA 2017
2016 Jasmine Jones Washington, D.C. 27 Did not compete Originally placed in the semifinals after first runner-up Kára McCullough declined to take the title (when she was preparing for the following year's state pageant), assumed the title when Deshauna Barber won Miss USA
Deshauna Barber Washington, D.C. 26 Miss USA 2016
2015 Lizzy Olsen Washington, D.C. 25
2014 Ciera Nicole Butts Baltimore, MD 23
2013 Jessica Frith[1] Washington, D.C. 26
2012 Monique Thompkins Washington, D.C. 23 Washington Redskins Cheerleader
2011 Heather Swann Washington, D.C. 22
2010 MacKenzie Green Washington, D.C. 21
2009 Nicole White Washington, D.C. 20 Previously Miss District of Columbia Teen USA 2004
2008 Chelsey Rodgers Washington, D.C. 25 Contestant at National Sweetheart 2006[2]
2007 Mercedes Lindsay Washington, D.C. 26
2006 Candace Allen Washington, D.C. 22 Top 10
2005 Sarah-Elizabeth Langford Washington, D.C. 25 Previously Miss District of Columbia 2002; contestant and winner on Fear Factor in 2005 Miss USA episode #5.29
2004 Tiara Dews Washington, D.C. 21 Previously Miss District of Columbia Teen USA 2000, top 10 at Miss Teen USA 2000
2003 Michelle Dollie Wright Washington, D.C. 26 Previously Miss District of Columbia Teen USA 1995
2002 Diahann Adair Doyen Desoto, TX 23 Did not compete First runner-up; succeeded when Shauntay Hinton won Miss USA
Shauntay Hinton Starkville, MS 23 Miss USA 2002 Non-semi-finalist at Miss Universe 2002
2001 Liane Angus Washington, D.C. 24 1st runner-up
2000 Juel April Casamayor Washington, D.C. 18 Washington Redskins Cheerleader
1999 Amy Alderson Washington, D.C. 27 Sister of Miss Tennessee Teen USA 1994, top 6 at Miss Teen USA 1994 and Miss Tennessee USA 2002, Allison Alderson
1998 Zanice Lyles Washington, D.C. 24
1997 Napiera Groves Washington, D.C. 21 Miss Congeniality
1996 La Chanda Jenkins Washington, D.C. 19
1995 Marci Andrews Washington, D.C. 27
1994 Angela McGlowan Washington, D.C. 25
1993 Alena Neves Washington, D.C. 18
1992 Wanda Jones Washington, D.C. 20
1991 Lakecia Smith Washington, D.C. 27
1990 Catherine Staples Washington, D.C. 23 Top 12
1989 Somaly Susan Sieng Washington, D.C. 24
1988 Elva Anderson Washington, D.C. 27 Miss Congeniality
1987 Edwina Richard Washington, D.C. 18
1986 Desiree Keating Washington, D.C. Previously Miss District of Columbia 1984
1985 Christal Chacon Washington, D.C.
1984 Steffanee Leaming Washington, D.C. 21 4th runner-up
1983 Julie Anne Warner Washington, D.C.
1982 Lori Esteep Washington, D.C.
1981 Belinda Johnson Washington, D.C.
1980 Marianne Ritter Washington, D.C. 18
1979 Cynthia Ramsay Washington, D.C. 19
1978 Wanda Clineman Washington, D.C. 23
1977 Sharon Sutherland Washington, D.C. 25 Top 12
1976 Nancy Stitt Washington, D.C. 20 Nancy Sitt competed at Miss USA,[3] but Mary Theresa Clair is listed as Miss DC USA 1976 on the Miss DC USA website.
1975 Mary Lamond Washington, D.C. 27 Top 12
1974 Robin Lee Utterback Washington, D.C. 22 Top 12
1973 Nancy Plachta Adelphi, MD 22 Top 12
1972 Janet Gail Greenawalt Washington, D.C. 18 Top 12
1971 Sue Lowden Washington, D.C. 19 Top 12 Later Miss New Jersey 1973 as Suzanne Plummer, 2nd Runner-up to Miss America 1974
1970 Nikki Phillipp Washington, D.C. 27 Top 15
1969 Shelley Gosman Beltsville, MD
1968 Diane Mothershead Washington, D.C. 23 Previously semi-finalist at Miss World USA 1967
1967 Myra Chudy Washington, D.C. 26 Top 15
1966 Sue Counts Washington, D.C. 19 Top 15
1965 Dianna Lynn Batts Falls Church, VA 4th runner-up Model on The Price Is Right, later Miss USA World 1965 and 1st runner up in Miss World 1965
1964 Bobbi Johnson Alexandria, VA 19 Miss USA 1964 Top 15 at Miss Universe 1964
1963 Michele Metrinko Washington, D.C. 1st runner-up Later won the Miss New York City World 1963 and Miss USA World 1963 pageants, and placed as a top 14 semi-finalist at Miss World 1963. Her sister Marsha Metrinko also competed at Miss USA 1963 as Miss Maryland and in Miss America 1963 as Miss New York City.[4]
Candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2010 U.S. House of Rep. election in Delaware for Delaware's at-large congressional district under her married name Michele Rollins.
1962 Helen Sweeney Washington, D.C. 27 Top 16
1961 Patricia Brunette
1960 Doris Lee Jones
1959 Shirley Ann Hobbs
1958 Peggy Wolf
1957 did not compete
1956 Joanne Holler
1955 did not compete
1954 Laura Farley Washington, D.C. 21 Top 19
1953 did not compete
1952

1 Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant

References
  1. "Jessica Frith Crowned Miss District of Columbia USA 2013". Beauty Pageant News. January 3, 2013. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  2. "National Sweetheart". Pageantopolis. Archived from the original on July 22, 2015. Retrieved September 6, 2010.
  3. "Miss USA 1976 Parade of States". YouTube.
  4. "Miss USA roots sister on in Miss America bid". Hartford Courant. 1963-09-02. p. 20A.

Bertha Pincus 1932

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