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Miss District of Columbia USA

Beauty pageant competition

Field	Value
name	Miss District of Columbia USA
formation	1952
type	Beauty pageant
headquarters	Washington, D.C.
location	District of Columbia
membership	Miss USA
language	English
key_people	Emanii Causby (Executive Director)
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.

Gallery of titleholders

File:Bobbi Johnson Miss District of Columbia.jpg|Bobbi Johnson, Miss District of Columbia USA 1964 & Miss USA 1964 File:Angela McGlowan (cropped).JPG|Angela McGlowan, Miss District of Columbia USA 1994 File:Shauntay Hinton.jpg|Shauntay Hinton, Miss District of Columbia USA 2002 and Miss USA 2002 File:DCQueens.jpg|Mercedes Lindsay, Miss District of Columbia USA 2007 and Jasmine Alexis, Miss District of Columbia Teen USA 2007 File:Nicole White.jpg|Nicole White, Miss District of Columbia USA 2009 File:Mackenzie Green.JPG|Mackenzie Green, Miss District of Columbia USA 2010 File:Deshauna Barber.jpg|Deshauna Barber, Miss District of Columbia USA 2016 & Miss USA 2016 File:Kára McCullough at the NRC 03 (cropped).jpg|Kára McCullough, Miss District of Columbia USA 2017 & Miss USA 2017 File:Ryann Richardson virtual town-hall.jpg|Ryann Richardson, replacement Miss District of Columbia USA 2017

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	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}}
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
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, 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	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

References

(February 2022). "Miss USA 1976 Parade of States". YouTube}}{{cbignore}}{{Dead Youtube links.
(18 July 1963). "MISS U.S.A. AND 14 RUNNERS-UP". [[Iowa City Press-Citizen]].
(1963-09-02). "Miss USA roots sister on in Miss America bid". Hartford Courant.

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