Formation | 1952 |
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Type | Beauty pageant |
Headquarters | Puyallup |
Location | |
Membership | Miss USA |
Official language | English |
Website | Official website |
The Miss Oregon USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Oregon in the Miss USA pageant. It is currently produced by Pageant NW Productions based in Puyallup, Washington since 2015.
Oregon has only had limited success at Miss USA and has yet to win the title. The highest placed Miss Oregon USA was Gail Atchison who finished 2nd runner-up to Barbara Peterson in 1976. The most recent finalist was Toneata Morgan in 2018.
Two Miss Oregon USA titleholders have formerly held the Miss Oregon Teen USA title and competed at Miss Teen USA.
The current titleholder is Manju Bangalore of Corvallis, Oregon and was crowned on October 15, 2022, at Sherwood Center for the Fine Arts in Sherwood, Oregon. She represented Oregon at Miss USA 2023.
Year | Name | Hometown | Age [lower-alpha 1] | Placement at Miss USA | Special awards at Miss USA | Notes |
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2024 | Shayla Montgomery | Happy Valley | 21 | TBA | TBA | Previously Miss Oregon Teen USA 2020 |
2023 | Manju Bangalore | Corvallis | 25 | Previously Miss Oregon World 2018 and 2020, and Miss California World 2019. | ||
2022 | Arielle Freytag | Harrisburg | 28 | |||
2021 | Allison Cook | Portland | 27 | Previously Miss Oregon 2013 [1] | ||
2020 | Katerina Villegas | Hillsboro | 26 | |||
2019 | Natalie Tonneson[ citation needed ] | Portland | 28 | |||
2018 | Toneata Morgan | Coquille [2] [3] | 22 | Top 15 | Contestant of Beauty and the Geek Australia [4] | |
2017 | Elizabeth (Liz) Denny | Roseburg | 26 | |||
2016 | Natriana Shorter | Eugene | 25 | |||
2015 | Bridget Wilmes | Canby | 22 | |||
2014 | Emma Pelett | Portland | 25 | |||
2013 | Gabrielle Neilan[ citation needed ] | Gresham | 23 | Miss Congeniality | ||
2012 | Alaina Bergsma | Eugene | 22 | Miss Photogenic | Former member of the Oregon Ducks volleyball team and National Volleyball Player of the Year 2012 [5] | |
2011 | Anna Prosser | Portland | 26 | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2008 | ||
2010 | Kate Paul | Mitchell | 24 | |||
2009 | Sylvie Tarpinian | Eugene | 24 | |||
2008 | Mary Lee Horch | Corvallis | 24 | |||
2007 | Sharitha McKenzie | Portland | 23 | |||
2006 | Allison Machado | Medford | 24 | |||
2005 | Jessica Carlson | Portland | 24 | |||
2004 | Jennifer Murphy | Medford | 25 | Top 10 | Contestant on the fourth season of The Apprentice [6] | |
2003 | Myah Moore | Portland | 21 | |||
2002 | Kristi Walkoski | Wilsonville | 23 | |||
2001 | Endia Albrante | Eugene | 21 | Top 10 | ||
2000 | Elizabeth Heitmanek | Medford | 19 | |||
1999 | Amy Nelson | Eugene | 20 | |||
1998 | Kara Jones | Eugene | 20 | |||
1997 | Heather Williams | Gold Beach | 25 | |||
1996 | Jill Chartier | Roseburg | 21 | Previously Miss Oregon Teen USA 1993 and semi-finalist at Miss Teen USA 1993 [7] | ||
1995 | Karrie Grove | Portland | 24 | |||
1994 | Denise White | Lake Oswego | 25 | Miss Congeniality | ||
1993 | Dawn Kennedy | Lake Oswego | 24 | |||
1992 | Terrie House | Astoria | 22 | |||
1991 | Olga Calderon | Beaverton | 22 | Semi-finalist at Miss USA 1991 [8] | Previously Miss Oregon Teen USA 1985 [9] | |
1990 | Elizabeth Michaud | Portland | 24 | |||
1989 | Jenifer Blaska | |||||
1988 | Elaine Rohrer | |||||
1987 | Taime Primiano | Portland | ||||
1986 | Kimberly Stubblefield | Lake Oswego | 18 | Later Mrs. Oregon America 2007 under her married name, Kimberly Takla.; [10] mother of Miss Oregon 2022 Sophia Takla [11] | ||
1985 | Jodi Unruh | Eugene | 20 | Top 20 | Later an award-winning TV anchor/reporter and entertainment host and producer. [12] | |
1984 | Debbie Epperson | Portland | 21 | Semi-finalist | ||
1983 | Shelley Kiser | Tigard | 19 | |||
1982 | Kristina Bauer [13] | Dundee [13] | 17 [13] | |||
1981 | Dawn Lewis | Portland | ||||
1980 | Martha Viducich | Salem | ||||
1979 | Katie Fitzpatrick [14] | Salem [14] | ||||
1978 | Julie Heater | Salem | ||||
1977 | Charisse Charlton | |||||
1976 | Gail Atchison | 2nd runner-up | ||||
1975 | Theresa Favreau | Portland | ||||
1974 | Peggy Ann Gerding | |||||
1973 | Judy Bishop | |||||
1972 | Yvonne Philes | |||||
1971 | Connie Oost | |||||
1970 | Laura Smith | Portland | 18 | Semi-finalist | ||
1969 | Karen Morton | |||||
1968 | Marsha Mayer | |||||
1967 | Maureen Bassett | Semi-finalist | ||||
1966 | Sharon Gerritz | |||||
1965 | Leslie Brucher | |||||
1964 | Toye Esch | Salem | Semi-finalist | |||
1963 | Joset Fisher | |||||
1962 | Joyce Collin | Semi-finalist | ||||
1958–1961 | did not compete | |||||
1957 | Sonja Landsem | |||||
1956 | Maralyn Turner | Semi-finalist | ||||
1955 | Rose Karcha | |||||
1954 | Charlotte Miller | |||||
1953 | did not compete | |||||
1952 | Beth Bailey |
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