Miss Alabama USA
Beauty pageant competition
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Miss Alabama USA, previously known as Miss Alabama Universe,[1] is the beauty pageant that selects the representative for the state of Alabama in the Miss USA pageant, and the name of the title held by its winner. The pageant is directed by RPM Productions.
| Formation | 1952 |
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| Type | Beauty pageant |
| Headquarters | Birmingham |
| Location | |
| Members | Miss USA |
Official language | English |
Key people | Janice McDonald Paula Miles |
| Website | Official website |
Alabama's most successful placement was in 1967, when Sylvia Hitchcock was crowned Miss USA. She later went on to be crowned Miss Universe 1967 as well. Alabama's most recent placement was in 2023, when Sophie Burzynski placed Top 20.
The current Miss Alabama USA is Samantha Havenstrite of Birmingham, who was crowned on July 11, 2026 at Mississippi State University in Starkville. Havenstrite will represent Alabama at Miss USA 2026.
Gallery of titleholders
Tara Darby, Miss Alabama USA 2004
Haleigh Stidham, Miss Alabama USA 2006
Keisha Walding, Miss Alabama USA 2008
Katherine Webb, Miss Alabama USA 2012
Hannah Brown, Miss Alabama USA 2018
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Results summary
Placements in Miss USA
- Miss USA: Sylvia Hitchcock (Miss Universe 1967)[2]
- 1st Runners-Up: Pamela Flowers (1975), Candace Brown (1992), Michelle Arnette (2003), Mary-Margaret McCord (2013)
- 2nd Runners-Up: Doris Edwards (1953), Judith Carlson (1958), Margaret Gordon (1960), Jina Mitchell (2000), Madeline Mitchell (2011)
- 3rd Runner-Up: Pamela "Pam" Rigas (1980)
- 4th Runner-Up: Suellen Robinson (1961), Kelly Hutchinson (2020)
- Top 5: Peyton Brown (2016)
- Top 10/11/12: JoAnne Henderson (1981), Candy Carley (1991), Autumn Smith (1997), Tara Tucker (2002), Tara Darby (2004), Haleigh Stidham (2006), Audrey Moore (2010), Katherine Webb (2012), Madison Guthrie (2015), Kennedy Whisenant (2025)
- Top 15/20: Pat Sullivan (1959), Dinah "Diana" Armstrong (1963), Pamela Jean Borgfeldt (1964), Leigh Sanford (1965), Claudia Robinson (1968), Hitsy Parnell (1969), Jesica Ahlberg (2014), Sophie Burzynski (2023)
Alabama has a record of 32 placements at Miss USA.
Awards
- Miss Congeniality: Peyton Brown (2016)
- Miss Photogenic: Pamela Flowers (1975), Rebecca Moore (2007), Audrey Moore (2010)
Titleholders
- Color key
- Winner
- Runner-up
- Semi-finalist
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age[a] | Local title | Placement at Miss USA | Special awards at Miss USA | Notes |
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| 2026 | Samantha Havenstrite | Birmingham | 27 | Miss Birmingham | TBA | ||
| 2025 | Kennedy Whisenant | Birmingham | 24 | Miss North Central | Top 10 | ||
| 2024 | Diane Westhoven[3] | Vestavia | 21 | Miss Southern Plains | |||
| 2023 | Sophie Burzynski[4] | Auburn | 21 | Miss Auburn-Opelika | Top 20 | ||
| 2022 | Katelyn Vinson[5] | Dothan | 21 | Miss Dothan | |||
| 2021 | Alexandria Flanigan[6] | Cullman | 24 | Miss Cullman | |||
| 2020 | Kelly Hutchinson[7] | Auburn | 22 | Miss Auburn-Opelika | 4th runner-up |
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| 2019 | Hannah McMurphy[9] | Tuscaloosa | 20 | Miss Indian Hills | |||
| 2018 | Hannah Brown[10] | Northport | 23 | Miss West Alabama |
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| 2017 | Baylee Smith[11] | Tuscaloosa | 19 | Miss Pike County | |||
| 2016 | Peyton Brown[12] | Eufaula | 21 | Miss Eufaula | Top 5 | Miss Congeniality |
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| 2015 | Madison Guthrie[14] | Hoover | 20 | Miss Hoover | Top 11 | ||
| 2014 | Jesica Ahlberg[15] | Birmingham | 23 | Miss Central Alabama | Top 20 | ||
| 2013 | Mary-Margaret McCord[16] | Gadsden | 23 | Miss Gadsden | 1st runner-up | ||
| 2012 | Katherine Elizabeth Webb[17] | Phenix City | 22 | Miss East Alabama | Top 10 | ||
| 2011 | Madeline Grace Mitchell[18] | Russellville | 21 | Miss Tuscaloosa | 2nd runner-up |
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| 2010 | Audrey Moore[19] | Hoover | 20 | Top 10 | Miss Photogenic[20] | ||
| 2009 | Rachel Philippona[21] | Dothan | 19 | ||||
| 2008 | Keisha Walding[22] | Dothan | 24 | ||||
| 2007 | Rebecca Moore | Vestavia Hills | 19 | Miss Photogenic | |||
| 2006 | Haleigh Stidham | Birmingham | 23 | Top 10 | |||
| 2005 | Jessica Tinney | Birmingham | 21 | ||||
| 2004 | Tara Darby | Birmingham | 22 | Top 10 | |||
| 2003 | Michelle Arnette | Dothan | 25 | 1st runner-up | |||
| 2002 | Tara Tucker | Birmingham | 23 | Top 12 |
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| 2001 | Laura Hoffman | Birmingham | 20 | ||||
| 2000 | Jina Mitchell | Trussville | 22 | 2nd runner-up | |||
| 1999 | Doree Walker | Gardendale | 24 | ||||
| 1998 | Paige Brooks | Mobile | 26 | ||||
| 1997 | Autumn Smith[23] | Chelsea | 22 | Top 10 |
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| 1996 | Benita Brooks[24] | Huntsville | 25 | ||||
| 1995 | Anna Mingus | Enterprise | - |
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| 1994 | Malaea Nelms[25] | Alexandria | - | ||||
| 1993 | Toni Johnson | Montgomery | 22 |
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| 1992 | Candace Michelle Brown | Auburn | 23 | 1st runner-up[26] | |||
| 1991 | Candy Carley | Mobile | 25 | Top 11 | |||
| 1990 | Natalie Moore | Hoover | |||||
| 1989 | Sheri Mooney | Pelham | 20 | ||||
| 1988 | Rhonda Mooney[27] | Pelham | 21 | ||||
| 1987 | Rhonda Leigh Garrett[28] | Birmingham | 21 | ||||
| 1986 | Heather Howard[29] | Huntsville | 20 | ||||
| 1985 | Allison Sawyer | Birmingham | - | ||||
| 1984 | Kelly Flowers | Hueytown | 20 | ||||
| 1983 | Terri Lane[30] | Birmingham | 20 | ||||
| 1982 | Lisa Wheeler[31] | Birmingham | 19 | ||||
| 1981 | JoAnne Henderson[32] | Tuscaloosa | 21 | Top 12 | |||
| 1980 | Pamela Helena "Pam" Rigas[33] | Troy | 19 | 3rd runner-up[34] |
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| 1979 | Rose Molly Burch[36] | Mobile | 20 |
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| 1978 | Eva Jo Stancil[38] | Birmingham | 22 | ||||
| 1977 | Cheryl Burgess[1] | Alexandria | 18 | ||||
| 1976 | Kyle Ellis[39] | Decatur | 22 | ||||
| 1975 | Pamela Renee "Pam" Flowers[40] | Headland | 19 | 1st runner-up | Miss Photogenic[41] | ||
| 1974 | Iva Wyna Lavas[42] | Birmingham | 19 | ||||
| 1973 | Diane Fouilhe[43] | Enterprise | 19 | ||||
| 1972 | Elaine Barnhill[44] | Robertsdale | 21 | ||||
| 1971 | Renee Smith[45] | Mobile | 18 | ||||
| 1970 | Kathleen Louise "Kathy" Bryant[46] | Bay Minette | 19 | ||||
| 1969 | Hitsy Parnell[47] | Thomasville | 20 | Top 15 | |||
| 1968 | Claudia Anne Robinson[48] | Mobile | 18 | Top 15 | Top 15 Best in Swimsuit[49] | ||
| 1967 | Sylvia Louise Hitchcock[50] | Tuscaloosa | 21 | Miss USA 1967[51] | |||
| 1966 | Susan Scott[53] | Clanton | 19 | ||||
| 1965 | Leigh Stanford[54] | Montgomery | 18 | Top 15 | |||
| 1964 | Pamela Jean "Pam" Borgfeldt[55] | Anniston | 21 | Top 15 |
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| 1963 | Dinah "Diana" Irene Armstrong[56] | Montgomery | 19 | Top 15[57] | |||
| 1962 | Jerolyn Ridgeway[58] | Fort Payne | 20 | ||||
| 1961 | Suellen Robinson[59] | Fairfax | 20 | 4th runner-up | |||
| 1960 | Margaret Jo Gordon[60] | Homewood | 21 | 2nd runner-up | |||
| 1959 | Pat Sullivan[61] | Birmingham | 21 | Top 15 | |||
| 1958 | Judith Lucille Carlson[62] | Birmingham | 18 | 2nd runner-up | |||
| Did not compete between 1954 and 1957 | |||||||
| 1953 | Doris Edwards[63] | Birmingham | 25 | 2nd runner-up | |||
| 1952 | Gadsden | 24 | |||||
Notes
- Age at the time of the crowning