Your ultimate Miss USA state pageant resource
Take a trip back into the history of the Miss Alabama USA and Teen USA pageants, from the first winner to the most recent. Get to know every single Miss and Teen titleholder with a full listing, hometown map and extensive photo archive, with state pageant photos, Miss USA and Teen USA competition photos and more.
21 • Tuscaloosa
25 • Cullman
23 • Dothan
22 • Auburn
Semi-finalist
at Miss USA
21 • Vestavia Hills
24 • Birmingham
Top 10
at Miss USA
Winner
Sylvia Hitchcock (1967)
1st runner-up
Pamela Flowers (1975), Candace Michelle Brown (1992), Michelle Arnette (2003), Mary Margaret McCord (2013)
2nd runner-up
Doris Edwards (1953), Judith Lucille Carlson (1958), Margaret Gordon (1960), Jina Mitchell (2000), Madeline Mitchell (2011)
3rd runner-up
Pamela Rigas (1980)
4th runner-up
Suellen Robinson (1961), Kelly Hutchinson (2020)
Top 5/6
Peyton Brown (2016)
Semi-finalist
Pat Sullivan (1959), Dinah Irene Armstrong (1963), Pamela Jean Borgfeldt (1964), Leigh Stanford (1965), Claudia Robinson (1968), Hitsy Parnell (1969), JoAnne Henderson (1981), Candy Carley (1991), Autumn Smith (1997), Tara Tucker (2002), Sophie Burzynski (2023)
Top 8/10/11/12*
Tara Darby (2004), Haleigh Stidham (2006), Audrey Moore (2010), Katherine Webb (2012), Madison Guthrie (2015)
Top 15/16/20*
Jesica Ahlberg (2014)
* Where the semi-finalists are cut in multiple stages before the top 5 or 6
Congeniality
Peyton Brown (2016)
Photogenic
Pamela Flowers (1975), Rebecca Moore (2007), Audrey Moore (2010)
18 • Greenville
19 • Auburn
15 • Spanish Fort
19 • Birmingham
Top 10
at Miss Teen USA
16 • Mobile
3rd runner-up
Erin Snow (2016)
4th runner-up
Anna Mingus (1988), Kalin Burt (2019)
Top 5/6
Christine King (1992)
Semi-finalist
Jeannie Plott (1989), Courtney Parker (2008), Ashlyn Alongi (2010), Peyton Brown (2012), Lorin Holcombe (2013), Taylor Elliott (2015)
Top 10*
Terra Moody (2004), Canden Jackson (2007),Ava LeBlanc (2024)
* Where the semi-finalists are cut in multiple stages before the top 5 or 6
