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Miss Wisconsin USA

Beauty pageant competition

Field	Value
name	Miss Wisconsin USA
formation	1952
type	Beauty pageant
headquarters	Savage
location	Minnesota
membership	Miss USA
language	English
key_people	Kelly McCoy

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The Miss Wisconsin USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Wisconsin in the Miss USA pageant.

It is produced by Future Productions based in Savage, Minnesota from 2007 until 2024 and from 2025 onwards is produced by KPC Productions based in West Des Moines, Iowa.

Wisconsin is one of the least successful states in the Miss USA system with only eight placements in over sixty years as the state has yet to win the Miss USA title. The most recent placement was Alexis Maria Loomans in 2023, placing 2nd runner-up that is the state highest placing since Mary Cook earning 2nd runner-up in 1974 as well, and they had no placements from 1979 until 2007, when Caitlin Morrall made the top fifteen. In 2005, Melissa Ann Young won the Miss Congeniality award. Elyzabeth Lee Pham won Miss Photogenic in 1999 and Kate Redeker at Miss USA 2016.

Aneisha Cox of Green Bay was crowned Miss Wisconsin USA 2025 on August 10, 2025, at The Franklin Center in Des Moines. She represented Wisconsin at Miss USA 2025.

Gallery of titleholders

File:MelissaAnnYoung.jpg|Melissa Ann Young, Miss Wisconsin USA 2005 File:AnnaPiscitello.jpg|Anna Piscitello, Miss Wisconsin USA 2006 File:CaitlinMorrall-headshot.jpg|Caitlin Morrall, Miss Wisconsin USA 2007 File:BisharaDorre.jpg|Bishara Dorre, Miss Wisconsin USA 2014 and Miss Wisconsin Teen USA 2006

Results summary

Placements

2nd runner-up: Mary Lynn Cook (1974), Alexis Maria Loomans (2023)
3rd runner-up: Jodi Bonham (1967)
Top 10/12: Kathryn Wituschek (1979), Bishara Dorre (2014)
Top 15/20: Rita Delores Younger (1954), Jeanne Boulay (1955), Caitlin Morrall (2007), Aneisha Cox (2025)

Wisconsin holds a record of 9 placements at Miss USA.

Awards

Miss Photogenic: Elyzabeth Lee Pham (1999), Kate Redeker (2016)
Miss Congeniality: Melissa Ann Young (2005)
Best State Costume: Diane Modrow (1973)

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 at Miss USA	Special awards at Miss USA	Notes
2025	Aneisha Cox	Green Bay	23	Miss Green Bay	Top 20
2024	Tori Trittin	Madison	22	Miss South Central Wisconsin
2023	Alexis Maria Loomans	Waunakee	21	Miss Dane County	2nd runner-up
2022	Hollis Brown	Milwaukee	26	Miss Southeast Wisconsin
2021	Samantha Catherine Keaton	Milwaukee	20	Miss Milwaukee
2020	Gabriella Deyi	Madison	27				Longest reigning Miss Wisconsin USA at
2019	Danika Tramburg	Richfield	22
2018	Regina Gray	Milwaukee	27
2017	url=http://www.leadertelegram.com/News/Front-Page/2016/09/13/Crowning-achievement-2.html	title=Crowning achievement: Altoona native Skylar Witte wins Miss Wisconsin USA title	last=Miels	first=Emily	date=13 September 2016	work=Leader-Telegram	access-date=21 March 2017}}	Schofield	19		Formerly an event coordinator for Future Productions
2016	Kate Redeker	Sheboygan	19			Miss Photogenic
2015	Haley Laundrie	Lake Mills	21
2014	first= Steve	last= Kabelowsky	title=Fox Sports' Bishara Dorre makes Miss USA Top 10	publisher=On Milwaukee	url=https://onmilwaukee.com/movies/articles/bisharatop10.html	date=June 9, 2014}}	Milwaukee	24		Top 10
2013	Chrissy Zamora	Greenfield	25
2012	Emily Guerin	Monroe	23
2011	Jordan Morkin	Green Bay	21				Originally first runner-up, assumed the title after Shaletta Porterfield's resignation. Competed at Miss USA.
Shaletta Porterfield	Madison/West Bloomfield, MI	26		did not compete}}	Resigned on May 12, 2011, after being charged with three counts of identity theft.
2010	title=New Miss Wisconsin Crowned	publisher=WSAW	url=http://www.wsaw.com/home/headlines/62458712.html	date=28 September 2009}}	Franksville	20
2009	Alexandra Wehrley	Pewaukee	21				Host of Oklahoma Live on KSBI, co-host of the Miss USA 2015 pageant, and host of the Miss USA 2017 preliminary competition.
2008	Michelyn Butler	Madison	25				Contestant at National Sweetheart 2007
2007	Caitlin Morrall	Burlington	23		Top 15		Contestant at National Sweetheart 2003
2006	Anna Piscitello	Hartland	20
2005	Melissa Ann Young	Menasha	25			Miss Congeniality
2004	Jenna Schultz	Pewaukee	20
2003	Judith Eckerle	Milwaukee	26
2002	Cortney Owen	Muskego	18
2001	Kari Jo Dodge	Star Prairie	19
2000	Samantha Jo Picha	Verona	25
1999	Elyzabeth Pham	Madison	26			Miss Photogenic
1998	Michelle Altman	Green Bay	21
1997	Tara Johnson	Onalaska	21
1996	title=Miss Wisconsin on a Mission	url=https://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=8VRFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3rsMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6749,5176123&dq=miss-wisconsin-usa&hl=en	date=25 November 1995	publisher=The Telegraph-Herald}}	Madison/West Salem	26				First African American titleholder
1995	Tanae Geisler	Hudson	19
1994	Gina Desmond	Milwaukee	25
1993	Heather Hanson	Madison/Cascade	20
1992	Kelly Bright	Greenfield	25
1991	Kimberly Totdahl	Racine	24
1990	Lynn Mulcahy	Madison	20
1989	Sherri Baxter	Madison/Plymouth, MN	19
1988	Mary Anderson	St Francis	22
1987	Regina Part	Stevens Point	19
1986	Bonnie Bonnicksen	Madison	23
1985	Deborah Strauss	Thiensville	22
1984	Tamara Su Schoof	Milwaukee	24
1983	Susan Peters	Menomonee Falls	20
1982	Cheryl Maslowski	Milwaukee	21
1981	Dawn Spreeman	Kaukauna	18
1980	Susan McGaffigan	Pewaukee	21
1979	Kathryn Wituschek	Milwaukee	24		Semi-finalist
1978	Cynthia Paulson	Milwaukee	24
1977	Vicki Payne	Milwaukee	24
1976	Susan Femrite	Madison	19
1975	Rita Pedder	Madison	22
1974	Mary Lynn Cook	Wind Lake	23		2nd runner-up
1973	Diane Modrow	Green Bay	20			Best State Costume (Tied with Miss Texas USA)
1972	Suzan Nass	Menomonie	19
1971	Pamela Martin	Milwaukee	25
1970	Joann Soller	Eau Claire	20
1969	Christine Sachen	Racine	21
1968	Janice Kopps	Milwaukee	21
1967	Jodi Bonham	Milwaukee	23		3rd runner-up
1966	Janet Driscoll	Milwaukee	22
1965	Judith Ann "Judy" Achtor	Milwaukee	22				Died on January 18, 2016, in Milwaukee at age 70.
1964	Carolyne Limquite	Milwaukee	26
1963	Lynn Korchunoff	Milwaukee	18
1962	Sherri Mattison	Milwaukee	20
1961	Karen Reisweber	Milwaukee	21
1960	Sharyn Chalik	Milwaukee	22
1959	Charlene Krause	Milwaukee	24
1958	Did not compete
1957	Natalie Lueck	Milwaukee	25
1956	Priscilla Perkins	Milwaukee	23
1955	Jeanne Marianne Boulay	Fond du Lac	19		Semi-finalist
1954	Rita Delores Younger	Baraboo	21		Semi-finalist
1953	Jacque Kimmel	Milwaukee	24
1952	Jeannie Eleanor Huston	Milwaukee	20		Withdrew

References

[https://www.facebook.com/MissSupranational/photos/a.611633905610345/2356369951136723/?type=3 Miss Supranational Facebook]
Miels, Emily. (13 September 2016). "Crowning achievement: Altoona native Skylar Witte wins Miss Wisconsin USA title". Leader-Telegram.
Kabelowsky, Steve. (June 9, 2014). "Fox Sports' Bishara Dorre makes Miss USA Top 10". On Milwaukee.
(2005-10-18). "Pageant Winners Crowned". Madison.com.
(2007-06-25). "Milwaukee's Dorre crowned Miss Wisconsin Outstanding Teen". The Northwestern.
"Miss Wisconsin USA Jordan Marie Morkin". Miss Universe.
(16 May 2011). "Shaletta Porterfield, Miss Wisconsin USA, drops out of pageant facing identity theft charges". [[CBS News]].
(28 September 2009). "New Miss Wisconsin Crowned". WSAW.
(25 November 1995). "Miss Wisconsin on a Mission". The Telegraph-Herald.
(15 January 1991). "Miss Wisconsin USA crowned". The Milwaukee Sentinel.
(2 November 1987). "Miss Wisconsin USA was Miss Wisconsin America". The Telegraph-Herald.
(9 January 1985). "Special Dream: Pageant winner wants to be kept busy". The Milwaukee Journal.
(16 May 1974). "Arizonan seeks title". [[Tucson Citizen]].
(7 July 1962). "Getting Acquainted". [[Pensacola News]].

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