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Miss Georgia USA

Beauty pageant competition

Field	Value
name	Miss Georgia USA
formation	1952
type	Beauty pageant
headquarters	Collierville
location	Tennessee
membership	Miss USA
language	English
key_people	Kim Greenwood, State Pageant Director
website	Official website

Note

the U.S. state pageant affiliated with Miss USA

Brittany Swann, Miss Georgia USA 2007, at the [[Peach Bowl

The Miss Georgia USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Georgia in the Miss USA pageant. This pageant is directed Greenwood Productions under the ownership of Miss Tennessee USA 1989 Kim Greenwood and it is hosted in McDonough, Georgia.

Georgia has had a fair success at Miss USA, and has yet to win the title. The best placement was Erin Nance, who placed 1st runner-up in 1993, and many 2nd and 4th runner-ups. The most recent placement was Savannah Miles in 2025, placing Top 10.

Seven former Miss Georgia Teen USAs went on to win this competition, but only three titleholders has previously competed at Miss America. One represented Connecticut.

The current Miss Georgia USA is Savannah Miles of Atlanta who was crowned on June 28, 2025 at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville. She represented Georgia at the Miss USA 2025.

In 2025, Miss Buckhead 2025 Bella Bautista became the first openly transgender woman enlisted to compete in the pageant, but she later withdrew from the competition.{{cite web |last= Latifi|first= Fortesa|date= March 27, 2025|title= Bella Bautista, Miss Georgia USA's First Trans Contestant, On Why She Withdrew From the Pageant

Results summary

1st runner-up: Erin Nance (1993)
2nd runners-up: Tami Tesch (1986), Donna Rampy (1988), Tiffany Fallon (2001), Lisa Wilson (2006), Tiana Griggs (2014), Emanii Davis (2016)
3rd runner-up: Dorothy Taylor (1959)
4th runners-up: Carolann Connor (1955), Diane Austin (1958), Cherie Stephens (1970), Sophia Bowen (1987), Michele Nemeth (1989), Jasmyn "Jazz" Wilkins (2012)
Top 5/6: Brenda Leithleiter (1990), Jennifer Prodgers (1992), Patti Dunn (2000)
Top 10/12: Liz Wickersham (1976), Linda Kerr (1977), Lisa Condre (1981), Dotsy Timm (1983), Caroline Medley (2004), Marianny Egurrola (2018), Savannah Miles (2025)
Top 15/16: Kimberly Gittings (2009), Kaylin Reque (2011), Alyssa Beasley (2020)

Georgia holds a record of 27 placements at Miss USA.

Awards

Miss Photogenic: Liz Wickersham (1976), Sophia Bowen (1987)

Titleholders

;Color key

Winner
Runner-up or Finalist
Semifinalist

Year	Name	Hometown	Age	Local title	Placement at Miss USA	Special awards at Miss USA	Notes
2025	Savannah Miles	Atlanta	24	Miss GA South	Top 10
2024	Emmaline Farmer	Winder	24	Miss Northeast GA
2023	Rachel Russaw	Atlanta	24	Miss GA South
2022	Holly Haynes	Sugar Hill	26	Miss Coastal GA			Shortest reigning Miss Georgia USA at
2021	Cora Griffen	Columbus	24	Miss GA South
2020	Alyssa Beasley	Brunswick	22	Miss GA South	Top 16
2019	Katerina Rozmajzl	Atlanta	21	Miss Fulton Co.
2018	Marianny Egurrola	Buford	25	Miss Heart of Gwinnett	Top 10
2017	DeAnna Johnson	Hazlehurst	20	Miss Central East GA			Contestant on season 8 of The Voice
2016	url=http://www.11alive.com/news/local/miss-georgia-wins-second-runner-up-in-miss-usa-competition/233433461	title=Miss Georgia wins second runner-up in Miss USA competition	last=Ho	first=Sally	date=6 June 2016	work=11Alive.com}}	Griffin	22	Miss Spalding Co.	2nd Runner-Up
2015	Brooke Fletcher	Peachtree City	23	Miss Peachtree City
2014	Tiana Griggs	Monticello	26	Miss Monticello	2nd Runner-Up
2013	Brittany Sharp	Atlanta	22	Miss Central Atlanta
2012	Jasmyn "Jazz" Wilkins	Atlanta	22	Miss Johns Creek	4th Runner-Up		Daughter of Gerald Wilkins, niece of Dominique Wilkins, and sister of Damien Wilkins.
2011	Kaylin Reque	Suwanee	22	Miss Suwanee	Top 16		Atlanta Thrashers' Blue Crew member
2010	Cassady Lance	Savannah	25	Miss Coastal Georgia
2009	Kimberly Gittings	Lilburn	20	Miss Greater Lilburn	Top 15
2008	url=http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/news/local_news/former-miss-georgia-speaks-at-vsu/article_0c7c0905-695a-5d5a-bace-933307db2041.html	title=Former Miss Georgia speaks at VSU	last=Carver	first=Desiree	date=11 December 2016	work=The Valdosta Daily Times}}	Warner Robins	23	Miss Warner Robins
2007	Brittany Swann	Tyrone	23	Miss Peachtree City
2006	Lisa Wilson	Rome	26	Miss Rome	2nd Runner-Up		Contestant on season 3 of American Idol, finished as semifinalist
2005	Tanisha Brito	Dunwoody	24
2004	Caroline Medley	Suwanee	26		Top 10
2003	Erin Haney	Atlanta	21
2002	Heather Hogan	Duluth	21
2001	Tiffany Fallon	Duluth	26		2nd Runner-Up		Playboy Playmate of the Year for 2005, contestant on The Celebrity Apprentice.
2000	Patti Dunn	Duluth	24		Top 5
1999	Meredith Young		25
1998	Edlyn Lewis		24
1997	Denesha Reed	McDonough	22
1996	Jenny Craig
1995	Paulette Schier	Atlanta	23
1994	Andrea Moore	Atlanta
1993	Erin Nance	Calhoun	21		1st Runner-Up
1992	Jennifer Prodgers	Atlanta	23		Top 6
1991	Tamara Rhoads	Marietta	23
1990	Brenda Leithleiter		22		Top 6
1989	Michele Nemeth	Lilburn	24		4th Runner-Up
1988	Donna Rampy	Atlanta	24		2nd Runner-Up		Semi-finalist in Miss Asia Pacific Quest 1988 as Miss USA
1987	Sophia Bowen	Marietta	21		4th Runner-Up	Miss Photogenic
1986	Tami Tesh	Hephzibah	21		2nd Runner-Up
1985	Amanda Smith	Smyrna					Mother of Miss Tennessee 2024, Carley Jaymes Vogel
1984	Jayne Poteet	Norcross					Miss Oktoberfest 1987
1983	Dotsy Timm	Augusta			Top 12
1982	Kelly Blackston	Savannah
1981	Lisa Condre	Atlanta			Top 12
1980	April Reid	Augusta					Future Wheel of Fortune hostess Vanna White placed 4th runner-up in this pageant
1979	Debbie Freeman	Morrow
1978	Larinda Matthews	Marietta
1977	Linda Kerr	Alpharetta			Top 12
1976	Liz Wickersham	Atlanta			Top 12	Miss Photogenic
1975	Diana Goodman	Forest Park
1974	Vicki Ross	Warner Robins
1973	Melanie Chapman	Atlanta
1972	Kaye Ayers	Atlanta
1971	Jenny Lynn Andrews	Atlanta
1970	Cherie Stephens	Tucker			4th Runner-Up
1969	Judy Lyons	Atlanta	18
1968	Midge Ivie
1967	Jane Lineberger
1966	Flora Goddard	Atlanta
1965	Judy Simpson
1964	Lynda Tatum
1963	Brenda Jean Seagraves
1962	Genelda Odum	Odum					Competed in the 1963 Miss Dixie Pageant
1961	Patsy Giddens
1960	Cecilia Upton	Rockmart
1959	Dorothy Taylor				3rd Runner-Up
1958	Diane Austin				4th Runner-Up
1957	Ruth Lycan
1956	Mary Ruff
1955	Carolann Conno				4th Runner-Up
1953-54	No representative
1952	Betty Jane Wood						Successor to Rosemarie Bowe
Rosemarie Bowe				did not compete	Resigned

1 Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant

References

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Coyne, Amanda C.. (June 17, 2017). "Kennesaw State student wins Miss Georgia". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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Ashley, Asia. (24 November 2015). "New Miss Georgia and Miss Teen Georgia crowned in McDonough". Clayton News-Daily.
(November 20, 2017). "Sanjuanera Marianny Egurrola representará al estado de Georgia en el próximo Miss USA". Diario del Norte.
Ho, Sally. (6 June 2016). "Miss Georgia wins second runner-up in Miss USA competition". 11Alive.com.
Ashley, Asia. (24 November 2016). "New Miss Georgia and Miss Teen Georgia crowned in McDonough". Henry Herald.
(27 November 2014). "Miss Georgia USA and Miss Georgia Teen USA 2015 crowned in Henry County". Henry Herald.
(27 May 2014). "Miss Georgia USA heads to Baton Rouge, La. for 2014 Miss USA pageant". WLTZ.
Richardson, Marc. (2010-10-22). "Kaylin Reque of Suwanee Wins Miss Georgia USA , Kristen Robinson of Stone Mountain Wins Miss GA Teen". Stone Mountain 11alive.com.
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