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Miss Ohio USA

Beauty pageant competition

Field	Value
name	Miss Ohio USA
formation	1952
type	Beauty pageant
headquarters	Cincinnati
location	Ohio
membership	Miss USA
language	English
key_people	Melissa Proctor-Pitchford, state pageant director
website	Official website

The Miss Ohio USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Ohio in the Miss USA pageant, and the name of the title held by that winner. It has previously been known as Miss Ohio Universe. It is produced by Proctor Productions.

The pageant is currently held in Springfield and has previously been hosted by Mentor, Steubenville and Portsmouth.

Two Ohio representatives, Sue Downey in 1965 and Kim Seelbrede in 1981, have won the Miss USA title and competed in the Miss Universe pageant.

The most notable Miss Ohio USA is actress and Oscar winner Halle Berry, who was 1st runner up at Miss USA 1986. Other notable former titleholders include actress, model and sportscaster Jayne Kennedy and two former Survivor contestants, Kim Mullen of Survivor: Palau and Candace Smith of Survivor: Tocantins. Two Miss Ohio USA titleholders have previously competed at Miss Teen USA. Two have also competed at Miss America. The most recent placement was Sir'Quora Carroll placing 3rd runner-up in 2022.

The current titleholder is Hannah Klein of Cincinnati and was crowned on July 19, 2025 at Vern Riffe Center for the Arts in Portsmouth. She represented Ohio at Miss USA 2025.

Gallery of titleholders

File:Promotion photo of Katherine Justice in 'The Way West', 1967.jpg|Katherine Justice, Miss Ohio USA 1960, seen in her film The Way West File:Sue Ann Downey, Miss USA 1965.jpg|Sue Downey, Miss Ohio USA 1965 & Miss USA 1965 File:Jayne Kennedy 1980.JPG|Jane Harrison, Miss Ohio USA 1970 (pictured in 1980) File:Kim Seelbrede in 1981 (cropped).jpg|Kim Seelbrede, Miss Ohio USA 1981 & Miss USA 1981 File:Halle Berry by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg|Halle Berry, Miss Ohio USA 1986 and Miss World USA 1986 File:StacyOffenberger.jpg|Stacy Offenberger, Miss Ohio USA 2006 and Miss Ohio Teen USA 1998 File:Madison Gesiotto by Gage Skidmore.jpg|Madison Gesiotto, Miss Ohio USA 2014 File:Deneen Penn Miss Ohio USA 2018.jpg|Deneen Penn, Miss Ohio USA 2018 File:CINvTOR 2017-05-27 - Alice Magoto (34232289693) (cropped).jpg|Alice Magoto, Miss Ohio USA 2019 (when she was Miss Ohio 2016)

Results summary

Miss USAs: Sue Downey (1965), Kim Seelbrede (1981)
1st runner-up: Halle Berry (1986)
2nd runner-up: Audrey Bolte (2012)
3rd runners-up: Kim Weeda (1982), Stacy Offenberger (2006), Sir'Quora Carroll (2022)
4th runners-up: Kathryn Gabriel (1957), Kathleen Kehlmier (1972), Macy Hudson (2024)
Top 10/12: Melissa Proctor (1990), Melinda Miller (1999), Kristin Smith (2013), Alice Magoto (2019)
Top 15/16: Eleanore Mack (1953), Barbara Randa (1954), Eleanor Wood (1956), Corrine Huff (1960), Gail Krielow (1964), Karen Dietz (1966), Linda Hoyle (1968), Jane Harrison (1970), Megan Wise (2016), Sthephanie Miranda (2020)

Ohio holds a record of 24 placements at Miss USA.

Awards

Miss Photogenic: Kim Thomas (1980)
Miss Congeniality: Monica Day (2008)
Best State Costume: Kim Thomas (1980), Kim Weeda (1982)

Winners

;Color key

Winner
Runner-up
Finalists or semifinalist

Year	Name	Hometown	Age	Local title	Placement at Miss USA	Special awards at Miss USA	Notes
2025	Hannah Klein	Cincinnati	33	Miss Queen City
2024	Macy Hudson	Dayton	24	Miss Gem City	4th Runner-up
2023	Mackenzie Schutt	Westerville	27	Miss Central Ohio
2022	Sir'Quora Carrol	Canal Winchester	23	Miss Franklin County	3rd runner-up
2021	Nicole Wess	Cincinnati	22	Miss Cincinnati Metro			Shortest reigning Miss Ohio USA at
2020	Sthephanie Miranda	Campbell	26	Miss Campbell	Top 16
2019	Alice Louisa Magoto	Cincinnati	20	Miss Hyde Park	Top 10
2018	Deneen Paige Penn	Cortland	20	Miss Cortland
2017	Dinaleigh Baxter	Winchester	23	Miss Winchester
2016	url=http://www.mydailytribune.com/news/11334/miss-ohio-usa-looks-back	title=Miss Ohio USA looks back	last=Sergent	first=Beth	date=28 November 2016	work=Gallipolis Daily Tribune}}	Gallipolis	26	Miss Gallia County	Top 15
2015	Sarah Newkirk	Columbus	25	Miss Capital City
2014	Madison Mari Gesiotto	Massillon	21	Miss Mid Ohio
2013	Kristin Smith	Dayton	21	Miss Dayton	Top 10
2012	Audrey Claire Bolte	Batavia	21	Miss Batavia	2nd runner-up
2011	Ashley Nicole Caldwell	Gallipolis	24	Miss Northwest Ohio
2010	Amanda Tempel	St. Bernard	19	Miss St. Bernard
2009	Natasha Aristea Vivoda	Champion	22	Miss Trumbull County
2008	Monica Day Boggs	Whitehall	25	Miss Greater Ohio	Miss Congeniality
2007	Anna Melomud	Richmond Heights	22	Miss Richmond Heights
2006	Stacy Nicole Offenberger	Vincent	26	Miss Washington County	3rd runner-up
2005	Aisha Berry	Cincinnati	25	Miss Southwest Ohio
2004	Lauren Kelsey Hall	Wellston	20	Miss Wellston
2003	Candace Elizabeth Smith	Dayton	26				Contestant on Survivor: Tocantins
2002	Kimberly "Kim" Danelle Mullen	Huber Heights	23	Miss Dublin			Contestant on Survivor: Palau
2001	Amanda Jane Canary	Columbus	19
2000	Cheya Ranice Watkins	Cincinnati	26
1999	Melinda Miller	Ottoville	25		Semi-finalist
1998	Cynthia Madden	Anderson Township	18
1997	Michelle Mouser	Columbus	23
1996	Melissa Boyd	Massillon	22
1995	Julia Hughes	Grove City	22
1994	Lisa Michelle Allison	Gahanna	18
1993	Andrea Pacione	North Royalton
1992	Courtney Lea Baber	Cincinnati
1991	Amy Glaze	Lucasville
1990	Melissa Proctor	West Chester	22		Semi-finalist		Current director of Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Pennsylvania (both Miss and Teen USA) pageants under her married name, Melissa Proctor-Pitchford
1989	Lisa Thompson	Marion
1988	Gina West	Pickerington
1987	Hallie Bonnell	Akron
1986	Halle Maria Berry	Oakwood	19		1st runner-up
1985	Lisa Barlow	Vandalia
1984	Roxi Erwin	Pickerington
1983	Gina Gangale	Youngstown
1982	Kimberly Ann "Kim" Weeda	Dayton	21		3rd runner-up	Best State Costume
1981	Kimberly "Kim" Kaye Seelbrede	Germantown	20		Miss USA 1981
1980	Elizabeth Kim Thomas	Cincinnati	20			{{nowrap	Miss Photogenic
Best State Costume
1979	Carolyn Houlihan	Youngstown
1978	url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/11587145/	title=1978 Miss Ohio USA is Sheila Anderson	date=13 February 1978	work=The Circleville Herald	page=8}}	Cincinnati	19
1977	url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/11587182/	title=Woman, 19, from Stark 'Miss Ohio	date=13 February 1977	work=The Journal News	page=2}}	Paris	19				Mother of Miss Teen USA 2005 Allie LaForce
Later Miss Ohio World 1978
1976	Karen Myers	Columbus
1975	url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/11588486/the_daily_reporter/	title=People...	date=7 April 1975	work=The Daily Reporter	page=9}}	Conneaut
1974	url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/11588732/	title=Bedford miss is Miss Ohio	date=25 March 1974	work=The Newark Advocate	page=10}}	Bedford	21
1973	Jackie Urbanek	Cleveland					Represented Ohio at Miss World USA 1974
1972	url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/11587259/	title=Miss Ohio Universe	date=17 April 1972	work=The Marion Star	page=11}}	Columbus	18		4th runner-up
1971	Karen Haus	Chagrin Falls
1970	Jane Harrison	Wickliffe	18		Semi-finalist		Actress, model and sportscaster; past host of The NFL Today
1969	Marlynn Singleton	Westerville	18				Assumed title
Terry Chellis	Columbus	21				title=Miss Ohio Takes Ill, Gives Title to 'Sister'	url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-miami-herald-miss-ohio-takes-ill-gi/124028103/	access-date=20 May 2023	publisher=The Miami Herald	date=18 May 1969}}
1968	url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/11588401/	title=Crowned Miss Ohio	date=29 April 1968	work=The Mansfield News-Journal}}	Columbus	21		Semi-finalist
1967	Phyllis Smith	Caldwell
1966	Karen Dietz	Willoughby	21		Semi-finalist
1965	Sue Ann Downey	Columbus	20		Miss USA 1965
1964	Gail Karen Krielow	Richmond Heights	20		Semi-finalist
1963	Gloria Jean McBride	Columbus
Andrea Getzlaff	Solon	17				Disqualified for being underage
1962	Joan Carole Colucy	Massillon
1961	Alice Lou Englemann	Ashtabula
1960	Corrine Huff	Youngstown	19		Semi-finalist
Katherine "Kathy" Justice	Poland	17		colspan="2" align="center"	Withdrawn because younger than 18 for Miss Universe
1959	Marie Dicarlo	Poland
1958	Cindy Ann Garrison	Canton
1957	Kathryn Gabriel	Cleveland	20		4th runner-up
1956	Eleanor Wood	Canton	18		Semi-finalist
1955	Carol Hagerman	Columbus
1954	Barbara Joyce Randa	Painesville	19		Semi-finalist
1953	Eleanore Mack	Bellaire	20		Semi-finalist
1952	Margie Broering	Cincinnati

Notes

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