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Miss North Dakota USA

Beauty pageant competition

Field	Value
name	Miss North Dakota USA
formation	1952
type	Beauty pageant
headquarters	Fargo
location	North Dakota
membership	Miss USA
language	English
key_people	Kelly McCoy

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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 to 2024, was directed by Future Productions based in Savage, Minnesota.

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.

Olivia Redding of Burlington was crowned Miss North Dakota USA 2025 on August 8, 2025, at the Franklin Center in Des Moines. She represented North Dakota at Miss USA 2025.

Gallery of titleholders

File:150906-N-LC494-014 (21063637590).jpg| Molly Ketterling, Miss North Dakota USA 2015

Results summary

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

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

Winners

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Declared as Winner
Ended as runner-up
Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists

Year	Name	Hometown	Age	Local title	Placement at Miss USA	Special awards at Miss USA	Notes
2025	Olivia Redding	Burlington	21	Miss Burlington
2024	Codi Ann Miller	Amidon	31	Miss Western North Dakota
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
2020	Macy Christianson	Minot	23
2019	Samantha Redding	Burlington	22
2018	Abigail Pogatshnik	Bismarck	19
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
2013	Stephanie Erickson	Fargo	23
2012	Jaci Stofferahn	22				Contestant at National Sweetheart 2009.
2011	Brandi Schoenberg	Mohall	26
2010	Taylor Kearns	Fargo	20
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	23				Found dead at her north-side Minneapolis, Minn. home on June 14, 2016, at age 37.
2002	Amy Elkins	Riverdale	26
2001	Michelle Guthmiller	Palermo	24
2000	Amie Hoffner	Minot	18
1999	Shayna Bank	Fargo	19
1998	Alison Nesemeier	Casselton	24
1997	Lauri Marie Gapp	Fargo	25
1996	Juliette Spier	Fargo	20		Top 6
1995	Jean Stallmo	Fargo	23
1994	Amy Lantz	24				Mother of Miss Minnesota Teen USA 2025 Maisie Adams
1993	Jennifer Seminary	24
1992	Camie Fladeland	21
1991	Mischelle Chistensen	20
1990	Kari Larson	24
1989	Carla Christofferson	Tolna					Previously placed fourth runner-up to Miss North Dakota 1987 and 1988, and won the swimsuit competition in 1987.
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
1982	Tammy Martinson	Lansford
1981	Laurie Ida Ann Saarinen	Jamestown
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	27
1971	Joanne Engel	23
1970	Nancy Jean Perry	20
1969	Beckee Benz	Harvey	18
1968	Jewel Christensen	Fargo	24
1967	Jacqueline Linder	26
1966	Judy Ann Slayton	Fargo	26		3rd Runner-Up
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

References

"Future Productions, LLC State Directors".
"Codi Miller is Miss Miss North Dakota USA 2024".
(May 1, 2019). "Minot's Caitlyn Vogel wins first runner up Miss Teen USA". [[KFYR-TV]].
Thomas A. Kvamme. "Former Lady Teton purchases WNBA Sparks". [[Williston Herald]].
(9 May 1981). "Monkeyshines". [[The Arizona Republic]].
(May 23, 1966). "Pageant prayer answered, Miss USA gives thanks". [[The Baltimore Sun]].

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