Miss Grand USA

The United States has been participating at Miss Grand International since its inception in 2013. Under the management of Earth Pageant Productions during 2013 – 2015, the first two country representatives were appointed to join the international event without organizing the contest while the last one obtained the title through the Miss Earth United States 2015, two of them, Blair Griffith and Lauren Petersen, were placed among the top 20 finalists in 2013 and 2015, respectively.^[13]

After Chantel Martínez, a New York-based Dominican-American fashion model, acquired the franchise in 2016, she eventually ran the first contest of Miss Grand USA to determine a winner for the international stage. The event was held at Leonard Nimoy Thalia of Symphony Space in New York City, featuring 13 national finalists, of whom Michelle León from the host state was announced the winner.^[1] León also obtained the fourth runner-up title after participating in the 2016 Miss Grand International contest in Las Vegas, Nevada.^[14] Later in 2018, Martínez scheduled to organize the 2018 contest on May 28 in New York,^[15] but lost the franchise to Israel Silva and Hernan Rivera of H&I Grand Productions LLC, the Chicago-based event organizer that owned and ran the Miss Grand USA beauty contest from 2019 to 2023.^[16] The license was then transferred to an e-commerce company, Protagonist Live LLC, in early 2024, with former Miss Grand Ireland 2023, Rachel Slawson, as the president under Iron Tiara LLC.^[17] On December 6, 2024, Crown Legacy LLC took over the management of the franchise still under production of Protagonist Live LLC.^[18]

Since its establishment, the pageant, originally programmed to be held on 31 August, was canceled once in 2020 due to the significantly increased of COVID-19 infection cases in the country, the organizer then decided to appoint a Ghanaian American model Abena Appiah to instead compete at the international stage in Thailand,^[19] where she won the contest, making her the first American representative to hold such a title and the first black contender to do so.^[10][11]

The following list is the national finalists of the Miss Grand USA pageant, as well as the competition results.

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Year Represented	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th
State, etc.
Alabama			Y					Y
Alaska			Y
Arizona			10	Y		Y		Y
			Y
Arkansas
California	Y		16	Y	6	10	8	Y
Colorado	Y		16	Y		Y	12	Y
			Y
Connecticut	Y	Y	Y				Y
Delaware			Y
District of Columbia			Y	Y		15		Y
Florida	Y	10		10	Y	10		Y
Georgia				10		10		Y
Hawaii			10			10		Y
Idaho
Illinois		10	Y					Y
Indiana						Y		Y
Iowa				Y
Kansas			Y	Y
Kentucky				Y				Y
Louisiana			Y		Y	Y	Y
Maine					Y			Y
Maryland	Y			10		15
Massachusetts	Y	10	Y				Y
Michigan				Y		Y		Y
Minnesota			Y	Y	Y		12
Mississippi		10	16	Y	Y
Missouri				Y		Y	Y
Montana				Y
Nebraska			Y
Nevada	Y	Y		Y		Y	12	Y
New Hampshire
New Jersey	5		10			15		Y
New Mexico			Y			Y	12	Y
New York		Y	10	10	6		8	Y
North Carolina			Y			Y		Y
North Dakota
Ohio		Y	Y	10		Y		Y
Oklahoma			16
Oregon			16	Y
Pennsylvania	5		16	Y	Y	10		Y
Rhode Island				Y			Y
South Carolina		Y	Y				Y
South Dakota
Tennessee		Y	Y					Y
Texas	Y	10	10		6		8	Y
Utah
Vermont		Y
Virginia			Y	Y			Y	Y
Washington				Y			Y	Y
West Virginia
Wisconsin								Y
Wyoming
Candidates with no affiliated state
Atlantic
Central New York								Y
East Coast								Y
Golden Coast								Y
Great Lakes
Mid-Atlantic				Y		Y
New England						Y
North Atlantic								Y
North East				Y		15
Northern California								Y
Silver State								Y
South								Y
South Atlantic						Y
South East						Y
Southern States								Y
Tri-State						10
West Coast						Y		Y
Total	13	17	28	18	12	24	19	TBA
Color keys    : Declared as the winner    : Ended as a 1st runner-up    : Ended as a 2nd runner-up    : Ended as a 3rd runner-up    : Ended as a 4th runner-up  A  : Ended as a finalist, semifinalist or unplaced  ×  : Withdrew during the competition  ×  : No representative

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