Miss North Dakota USA

For the state pageant affiliated with Miss America, see Miss North Dakota.

The Miss North Dakota USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of North Dakota in the Miss USA pageant. Since 2010, it is directed by Future Productions based in Savage, Minnesota.^[1]

Miss North Dakota USA

Formation	1952
Type	Beauty pageant
Headquarters	Fargo
Location	North Dakota
Membership	Miss USA
Official language	English
Key people	Denise Wallace Craig Heitkamp
Website	Official website

North Dakota's highest placements were in 2014 and 2021, when Audra Mari and Caitlyn Vogel, respectively, placed as the first runner-up. Both had formerly placed as the first runner-up in Miss Teen USA 2011 and Miss Teen USA 2019, respectively.

Three Miss North Dakota USA titleholders have competed at Miss America and eight have competed at Miss Teen USA.

Codi Miller of Amidon was crowned Miss North Dakota USA 2024 on May 12, 2024 at the Watertown Events Center in Watertown, South Dakota. She will represent North Dakota at Miss USA 2024.^[2]

Gallery of titleholders

• 
  Molly Ketterling, Miss North Dakota USA 2015

Results summary

• 1st runners-up: Audra Mari (2014), Caitlyn Vogel (2021)
• 3rd runners-up: Judy Ann Slayton (1966)
• 4th runners-up: Elizabeth Ann Jaeger (1983)
• Top 6: Juliette Spier (1996)

North Dakota holds a record of 5 placements at Miss USA.

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 at Miss USA	Special awards at Miss USA	Notes
2024	Codi Ann Miller	Amidon	31	Miss Western North Dakota			Previously Miss North Dakota Teen USA 2009
2023	Monni Nyaribo	Grand Forks	27	Miss Badlands
2022	SaNoah LaRocque	Belcourt	25	Miss Turtle Mountain
2021	Caitlyn Vogel	Minot	21	Miss Minot	1st Runner-Up		Previously Miss North Dakota Teen USA 2019 1st runner-up at Miss Teen USA 2019[3] She is the second woman to make 1st runner-up at both Miss Teen USA and Miss USA
2020	Macy Christianson	Minot	23				Previously Miss North Dakota 2016 Longest reigning Miss North Dakota USA at 1 year, 7 months and 4 days
2019	Samantha Redding	Burlington	22				Older first cousin of Abigail Pogatshnik, Miss North Dakota USA 2018 Shortest reigning Miss North Dakota USA at 10 months and 17 days
2018	Abigail Pogatshnik	Bismarck	19				Youngest contestant competing for Miss USA 2018 Younger first cousin of Samantha Redding, Miss North Dakota USA 2019 First Native American Miss North Dakota USA (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indian)
2017	Raquel Wellentin	Fargo	24				Born in the Philippines
2016	Halley Maas	Grand Forks	22
2015	Molly Ketterling	Elgin	20
2014	Audra Mari	Fargo	19		1st Runner-Up		Previously Miss North Dakota Teen USA 2011 1st runner-up at Miss Teen USA 2011 She is the first woman to make 1st runner-up at both Miss Teen USA and Miss USA Later Miss World America 2016 Top 11 and "Continental Queen of America" at Miss World 2016
2013	Stephanie Erickson[citation needed]	Fargo	23
2012	Jaci Stofferahn	Fargo	22				Contestant at National Sweetheart 2009.
2011	Brandi Schoenberg[citation needed]	Mohall	26				Previously Miss North Dakota International 2007.
2010	Taylor Kearns	Fargo	20				Previously Miss North Dakota Teen USA 2007.
2009	Kelsey Erickson	Grand Forks	22
2008	Stephanie Tollefson	New Rockford	21				Replaced Bethany Nesheim on Dec 16, 2007 when she moved to another state.
2007	Rachel Mathson	Thief River Falls	25
2006	Kimberly Krueger	Fargo	21
2005	Chrissa Miller	Bismarck	20
2004	Jennifer Smith	Fargo	27				Contestant at National Sweetheart 1998.
2003	Samantha Mary Edwards	Fargo	23				Found dead at her north-side Minneapolis, Minn. home on June 14, 2016, at age 37.
2002	Amy Elkins	Riverdale	26				Cousin of Nicci Elkins, Miss North Dakota Teen USA 1991
2001	Michelle Guthmiller	Palermo	24
2000	Amie Hoffner	Minot	18
1999	Shayna Bank	Fargo	19
1998	Alison Nesemeier	Casselton	24				Previously Miss North Dakota Teen USA 1994.
1997	Lauri Marie Gapp	Fargo	25
1996	Juliette Spier	Fargo	20		Top 6		Previously Miss North Dakota Teen USA 1992
1995	Jean Stallmo	Fargo	23
1994	Amy Lantz	Fargo	24
1993	Jennifer Seminary	Fargo	24				Previously Miss North Dakota Teen USA 1988
1992	Camie Fladeland	Fargo	21
1991	Mischelle Chistensen	Fargo	20
1990	Kari Larson	Fargo	24				Previously Miss North Dakota Teen USA 1984 Top 10 at Miss Teen USA 1984
1989	Carla Christofferson	Tolna					Previously placed fourth runner-up to Miss North Dakota 1987 and 1988, and won the swimsuit competition in 1987.[4]
1988	Kate Sevde	Williston
1987	Shelley Gangness	Fargo
1986	Beth Remmick	Minot
1985	Regina Schatz	Linton
1984	Suzanne Lewis	Fargo
1983	Elizabeth Ann Jaeger	Fargo	24		4th Runner-Up		Later Miss North Dakota 1985
1982	Tammy Martinson	Lansford
1981	Laurie Saarinen	Jamestown					Later Miss Minnesota 1982
1980	Kim Thompson	Minot
1979	Renae Hermanson	Crosby	25
1978	Theresa Olson	Fargo	25
1977	Barbara Redlin	Ellendale	24
1976	Linda Faye Paulson	Bowman	22				Mother of Kirsten Norderhaug, Miss Wisconsin Teen USA 2010.
1975	Renae Saville	Braddock	22
1974	Judith Waltz	Langdon	19
1973	Barbara Lundeen	Minot	19
1972	Gail Schmeichel	Minot	27
1971	Joanne Engel	Minot	23
1970	Nancy Jean Perry	Minot	20
1969	Beckee Benz	Harvey	18
1968	Jewel Christensen	Fargo	24
1967	Jacqueline Linder	Fargo	26
1966	Judy Ann Slayton[5]	Fargo	26		3rd Runner-Up		3rd runner up at Miss American Beauty 1965, official preliminary to Miss International.
1965	Patricia Dodge	Fargo	22
1964	DID NOT COMPETE
1963
1962
1961
1960	Twila Fleckton
1959	Patricia McGinley
1958	Diana Spidahl
1957	Anne-Marit Studness
1956	Mary Harroun
1955	Joan Smith
1954	Jane Hewitt
1953	Marilyn Wentz
1952	Gloria Rowe

1. Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant