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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. Since 2007, the state pageant has been directed by Future Productions of Savage, Minnesota.

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.

Tori Trittin of Madison was crowned Miss Wisconsin USA 2024 on June 15, 2024, at VAHS Performing Arts Center in Verona. She will represent Wisconsin for the title of Miss USA 2024.

Gallery of titleholders

• Melissa Ann Young, Miss Wisconsin USA 2005
• Anna Piscitello, Miss Wisconsin USA 2006
• Caitlin Morrall, Miss Wisconsin USA 2007
• 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)

Wisconsin holds a record of 8 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

1. Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant

References

1. "Future Productions, LLC State Directors". Retrieved 8 February 2017.
2. Miss Supranational Facebook
3. Miels, Emily (13 September 2016). "Crowning achievement: Altoona native Skylar Witte wins Miss Wisconsin USA title". Leader-Telegram. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
4. Kabelowsky, Steve (June 9, 2014). "Fox Sports' Bishara Dorre makes Miss USA Top 10". On Milwaukee.
5. "Pageant Winners Crowned". Madison.com. 2005-10-18.
6. "Milwaukee's Dorre crowned Miss Wisconsin Outstanding Teen". The Northwestern. 2007-06-25.
7. "Miss Wisconsin USA Jordan Marie Morkin". Miss Universe. Archived from the original on 2011-05-15. Retrieved 2011-05-14.
8. "Shaletta Porterfield, Miss Wisconsin USA, drops out of pageant facing identity theft charges". CBS News. 16 May 2011.
9. "New Miss Wisconsin Crowned". WSAW. 28 September 2009.
10. ^ "Miss Wisconsin on a Mission". The Telegraph-Herald. 25 November 1995.
11. "Miss Wisconsin USA crowned". The Milwaukee Sentinel. 15 January 1991.
12. ^ "Miss Wisconsin USA was Miss Wisconsin America". The Telegraph-Herald. 2 November 1987.
13. "Special Dream: Pageant winner wants to be kept busy". The Milwaukee Journal. 9 January 1985.

External links

• Official website

• Miss USA state pageants
• Wisconsin culture
• Women in Wisconsin
• Recurring events established in 1952
• 1952 establishments in Wisconsin
• Annual events in Wisconsin