Miss District of Columbia USA

For the state pageant affiliated with Miss America, see Miss District of Columbia.

Miss District of Columbia USA
Formation1952
TypeBeauty pageant
HeadquartersWashington, D.C.
Location
MembershipMiss USA
Official language
English
Key people
Emanii Causby (Executive Director)
WebsiteOfficial website

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 Cassie Baloue in 2023, placing Top 20.

Two Miss District of Columbia USA titleholders previously held the Miss District of Columbia Teen USA title and four have competed at Miss America, one as Miss New Jersey.

The current titleholder is Allison Laforce of Washington, D.C., was crowned Miss District of Columbia USA 2025 on September 6, 2025 at Seneca Valley High School in Germantown. She will represent the District of Columbia at Miss USA 2025.

Results summary

Placements

  • Miss USAs: Bobbie Johnson (1964), Shauntay Hinton (2002), Deshauna Barber (2016), Kára McCullough (2017)
  • 1st runners-up: Michele 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 15/16/20: Laura Farley (1954), Helen Sweeney (1962), Myra Chudy (1967), Sue Counts (1966), Cierra Jackson (2020), Faith Porter (2022), Cassie Baloue (2023), Kleo Torres (2024)
  • District of Columbia holds a record of 26 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 Age[a] Local title Placement Special awards Notes
2025 Allison LaForce Washington, D.C. 26
2024 Kleo Torres Washington, D.C. 26 Miss Nation's Capital Top 20
2023 Cassie Baloue Washington, D.C. 25 Miss Freedom Top 20
2022 Faith Porter Washington, D.C. 23 Miss Brookland Top 16
2021 Sasha Perea Washington, D.C. 27 Miss City Center
2020 Cierra Jackson Washington, D.C. 27 Miss Capital City Top 16
2019 Cordelia Cranshaw 26 Top 10
2018 Bryce Armstrong Washington, D.C. 21
2017 Ryann Richardson 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 23
2013 Jessica Frith 26
2012 Monique Thompkins 23 Washington Redskins Cheerleader
2011 Heather Swann 22
2010 MacKenzie Green 21
2009 Nicole White 20
2008 Chelsey Rodgers 25
  • Executive director of Miss District of Columbia USA pageants
2007 Mercedes Lindsay 26
2006 Candace Allen Washington, D.C. 22 Top 10
2005 Sarah-Elizabeth Langford Washington, D.C. 25
2004 Tiara Dews 21
2003 Michelle Dollie Wright 26
2002 Diahann Adair Doyen 23 did not compete Originally first runner-up; succeeded the title when Shauntay Hinton won Miss USA
Shauntay Hinton Washington, D.C. 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 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 24
1997 Napiera Groves 21 Miss Congeniality
1996 La Chanda Jenkins 19
1995 Marci Andrews 27
1994 Angela McGlowan 25
1993 Alena Neves 18
1992 Wanda Jones 20
1991 Lakecia Smith 27
1990 Catherine Staples Washington, D.C. 23 Top 12
1989 Somaly Susan Sieng Washington, D.C. 24
1988 Elva Anderson 27 Miss Congeniality
1987 Edwina Richard 18
1986 Desiree Keating
1985 Christal Chacon
1984 Steffanee Leaming Washington, D.C. 21 4th runner-up
1983 Julie Anne Warner Washington, D.C.
1982 Lori Esteep
1981 Belinda Johnson
1980 Marianne Ritter 18
1979 Cynthia Ramsay 19
1978 Wanda Clineman Oxon Hill, MD 22
1977 Sharon Sutherland Washington, D.C. 25 Top 12
1976 Nancy Stitt Washington, D.C. 20 Nancy Sitt competed at Miss USA,[1] but Mary Theresa Clair is listed as Miss DC USA 1976 on the Miss DC USA website.
1975 Mary C. Lamond Washington, D.C. 27 Top 12
1974 Robin Lee Utterback 22 Top 12
1973 Nancy Plachta 22 Top 12
1972 Janet Gail Greenawalt 18 Top 12
1971 Sue Lowden 19 Top 12
1970 Nikki Phillipp 27 Top 15
1969 Shelley Gosman Washington, D.C.
1968 Diane Mothershead 23
1967 Myra Chudy Washington, D.C. 26 Top 15
1966 Sue Counts 19 Top 15
1965 Dianna Lynn Batts Washington, D.C. 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 Washington, D.C. 19 Miss USA 1964
1963 Michele Bettina Metrinko[2] Washington, D.C. 1st runner-up
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. ^ "Miss USA 1976 Parade of States". YouTube.
  2. ^ "MISS U.S.A. AND 14 RUNNERS-UP". Iowa City Press-Citizen. 18 July 1963. p. 20. Retrieved 8 October 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Miss USA roots sister on in Miss America bid". Hartford Courant. 1963-09-02. p. 20A.
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