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
23 • Auburn
Top 5
at Miss USA
25 • Cullman
23 • Dothan
22 • Auburn
Semi-finalist
at Miss USA
21 • Vestavia Hills
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)
| IMAGE | YEAR | NAME | HOMETOWN | AGE | PLACEMENT | AWARD | NOTES |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 2023 | Sophie Burzynski | Auburn | 22 | Semi-finalist | ||
 | 2022 | Katelyn Vinson | Dothan | 22 | |||
 | 2021 | Alexandria Flanigan | ​Cullman | 25 | ​ | ​ | ​ |
 | 2020 | Kelly Hutchinson° | ​Auburn | 23 | ​4th runner-up | ​ | ​Previously Miss GA's Outstanding Teen 2013 |
 | 2019 | Hannah McMurphy | ​Tuscaloosa | 21 | ​ | ​ | |
 | 2018 | Hannah Brown | Tuscaloosa | 23 | ​ | ​ | ​ |
 | 2017 | Baylee Smith​ | Tuscaloosa | 20 | ​ | ​ | |
 | 2016 | Peyton Brown* | ​​Eufaula | 22 | ​Top 5 | ​​Congeniality | ​Previously Miss AL Teen USA 2012 (SF Miss Teen USA) |
 | 2015 | Madison Guthrie | ​Birmingham | 20 | ​Top 11 | ||
 | 2014 | Jesica Ahlberg | Selma | 24 | Top 20 | ​ | |
 | 2013 | Mary Margaret McCord | Gadsden | 23 | 1st runner-up | ||
 | 2012 | Katherine Webb | Phenix City | 23 | Top 10 | ||
 | 2011 | Madeline Mitchell | Russellville | 22 | 2nd runner-up | ||
 | 2010 | Audrey Moore | Hoover | 20 | Top 10 | Photogenic | |
 | 2009 | Rachel Philippona | Dothan | 19 | |||
 | 2008 | Keisha Walding | Dothan | 24 | |||
 | 2007 | Rebecca Moore | Vestavia Hills | 19 | Photogenic | ||
 | 2006 | Haleigh Stidham | Birmingham | 23 | Top 10 | ||
 | 2005 | Jessica Tinney | Birmingham | 21 | |||
 | 2004 | Tara Darby | Birmingham | 22 | Top 10 | ||
 | 2003 | Michelle Arnette | Dothan | 25 | 1st runner-up | ||
 | 2002 | Tara Tucker* | Birmingham | 23 | Semi-finalist | Previously Miss AL Teen USA 1997 | |
 | 2001 | Laura Hoffman | Birmingham | 20 | |||
 | 2000 | Jina Mitchell | Trussville | 22 | 2nd runner-up | ||
 | 1999 | Doree Walker | Gardendale | 24 | |||
 | 1998 | Paige Brooks | Mobile | 26 | |||
 | 1997 | Autumn Smith* | Chelsea | 22 | Semi-finalist | Previously Miss AL Teen USA 1993 | |
 | 1996 | Benita Brooks | Huntsville | 25 | |||
 | 1995 | Anna Mingus* | Enterprise | Previously Miss AL Teen USA 1988 (4RU Miss Teen USA) | |||
 | 1994 | Malaea Nelms | Alexandria | ||||
 | 1993 | Toni Johnson | Montgomery | 25 | |||
 | 1992 | ​Candace Michelle Brown | Auburn | 23 | 1st runner-up | ||
 | 1991 | Candy Carley | Mobile | 25 | Semi-finalist | ||
 | 1990 | Natalie Moore | Hoover | ||||
 | 1989 | Sheri Mooney | Pelham | 20 | Sister of Miss AL USA 1988 Rhonda Mooney | ||
 | 1988 | Rhonda Mooney | Pelham | 21 | Sister of Miss AL USA 1989 Sheri Mooney | ||
 | 1987 | Rhonda Garrett | Birmingham | 21 | Later director of AL, AR & MS Miss USA & Teen USA state pageants for many years | ||
 | 1986 | Heather Howard | Huntsville | 20 | |||
 | 1985 | Allison Sawyer | Birmingham | ||||
 | 1984 | Kelly Flowers | Hueytown | 20 | |||
 | 1983 | Terri Lane | Birmingham | 20 | |||
 | 1982 | Lisa Wheeler†| Trussville | 19 | †2006 | ||
 | 1981 | JoAnne Henderson | Tuscaloosa | 21 | Semi-finalist | ||
 | 1980 | Pamela Rigas^ | Troy | 19 | 3rd runner-up | Later Miss OH 1983 (4RU Miss America) | |
 | 1979 | Rose Burch | Mobile | 20 | |||
 | 1978 | Eva Stancil | Gadsden | 22 | |||
 | 1977 | Cheryl Burgess | Anniston | 19 | |||
 | 1976 | Kyle Ellis | Decatur | 22 | |||
 | 1975 | Pamela Flowers | Headland | 19 | 1st runner-up | Photogenic | |
 | 1974 | Wyna Lavas | Birmingham | 19 | |||
 | 1973 | Diane Fouilhe | Enterprise | 19 | |||
 | 1972 | Elaine Barnhill | Robertsdale | 21 | |||
 | 1971 | Renee Smith | Mobile | 18 | |||
 | 1970 | Kathy Bryant | Bay Minette | 19 | |||
 | 1969 | Hitsy Parnell†| Thomasville | 20 | Semi-finalist | †2007 | |
 | 1968 | Claudia Robinson | Mobile | 18 | Semi-finalist | ||
 | 1967 | SYLVIA HITCHCOCK†| Tuscaloosa | 21 | MISS USA & MISS UNIVERSE | †2015 | |
 | 1966 | Susan Scott | Clanton | 19 | |||
 | 1965 | Leigh Stanford | Montgomery | 18 | Semi-finalist | ||
 | 1964 | Pamela Jean Borgfeldt | Anniston | 21 | Semi-finalist | ||
 | 1963 | Dinah Irene Armstrong†| Montgomery | 19 | Semi-finalist | †1990 | |
 | 1962 | Jerolyn Ridgeway | Ft. Payne | 20 | |||
 | 1961 | Suellen Robinson | Fairfax | 19 | 4th Runner-up | ||
 | 1960 | Margaret Gordon | Homewood | 21 | 2nd runner-up | ||
 | 1959 | Pat Sullivan | Birmingham | 21 | Semi-finalist | ||
 | 1958 | Judith Lucille Carlson†| Birmingham | 18 | 2nd runner-up | †1967 (killed by a gunshot wound while on holiday in St Maarten) | |
| 1957 | Did Not compete | ||||||
| 1956 | Did Not compete | ||||||
| 1955 | Did Not compete | ||||||
| 1954 | Did Not compete | ||||||
 | 1953 | Doris Edwards†| Gadsden | 25 | 2nd runner-up | †1970 | |
| 1952 | Doris Edwards†| Gadsden | 24 | †1970 |
| IMAGE | YEAR | NAME | HOMETOWN | AGE | PLACEMENT | AWARD | NOTES |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Sophie Burzynski | Auburn | 22 | Semi-finalist | ||
| 2022 | Katelyn Vinson | Dothan | 22 | |||
| 2021 | Alexandria Flanigan | ​Cullman | 25 | ​ | ​ | ​ |
| 2020 | Kelly Hutchinson° | ​Auburn | 23 | ​4th runner-up | ​ | ​Previously Miss GA's Outstanding Teen 2013 |
| 2019 | Hannah McMurphy | ​Tuscaloosa | 21 | ​ | ​ | |
| 2018 | Hannah Brown | Tuscaloosa | 23 | ​ | ​ | ​ |
| 2017 | Baylee Smith​ | Tuscaloosa | 20 | ​ | ​ | |
| 2016 | Peyton Brown* | ​​Eufaula | 22 | ​Top 5 | ​​Congeniality | ​Previously Miss AL Teen USA 2012 (SF Miss Teen USA) |
| 2015 | Madison Guthrie | ​Birmingham | 20 | ​Top 11 | ||
| 2014 | Jesica Ahlberg | Selma | 24 | Top 20 | ​ | |
| 2013 | Mary Margaret McCord | Gadsden | 23 | 1st runner-up | ||
| 2012 | Katherine Webb | Phenix City | 23 | Top 10 | ||
| 2011 | Madeline Mitchell | Russellville | 22 | 2nd runner-up | ||
| 2010 | Audrey Moore | Hoover | 20 | Top 10 | Photogenic | |
| 2009 | Rachel Philippona | Dothan | 19 | |||
| 2008 | Keisha Walding | Dothan | 24 | |||
| 2007 | Rebecca Moore | Vestavia Hills | 19 | Photogenic | ||
| 2006 | Haleigh Stidham | Birmingham | 23 | Top 10 | ||
| 2005 | Jessica Tinney | Birmingham | 21 | |||
| 2004 | Tara Darby | Birmingham | 22 | Top 10 | ||
| 2003 | Michelle Arnette | Dothan | 25 | 1st runner-up | ||
| 2002 | Tara Tucker* | Birmingham | 23 | Semi-finalist | Previously Miss AL Teen USA 1997 | |
| 2001 | Laura Hoffman | Birmingham | 20 | |||
| 2000 | Jina Mitchell | Trussville | 22 | 2nd runner-up | ||
| 1999 | Doree Walker | Gardendale | 24 | |||
| 1998 | Paige Brooks | Mobile | 26 | |||
| 1997 | Autumn Smith* | Chelsea | 22 | Semi-finalist | Previously Miss AL Teen USA 1993 | |
| 1996 | Benita Brooks | Huntsville | 25 | |||
| 1995 | Anna Mingus* | Enterprise | Previously Miss AL Teen USA 1988 (4RU Miss Teen USA) | |||
| 1994 | Malaea Nelms | Alexandria | ||||
| 1993 | Toni Johnson | Montgomery | 25 | |||
| 1992 | ​Candace Michelle Brown | Auburn | 23 | 1st runner-up | ||
| 1991 | Candy Carley | Mobile | 25 | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1990 | Natalie Moore | Hoover | ||||
| 1989 | Sheri Mooney | Pelham | 20 | Sister of Miss AL USA 1988 Rhonda Mooney | ||
| 1988 | Rhonda Mooney | Pelham | 21 | Sister of Miss AL USA 1989 Sheri Mooney | ||
| 1987 | Rhonda Garrett | Birmingham | 21 | Later director of AL, AR & MS Miss USA & Teen USA state pageants for many years | ||
| 1986 | Heather Howard | Huntsville | 20 | |||
| 1985 | Allison Sawyer | Birmingham | ||||
| 1984 | Kelly Flowers | Hueytown | 20 | |||
| 1983 | Terri Lane | Birmingham | 20 | |||
| 1982 | Lisa Wheeler†| Trussville | 19 | †2006 | ||
| 1981 | JoAnne Henderson | Tuscaloosa | 21 | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1980 | Pamela Rigas^ | Troy | 19 | 3rd runner-up | Later Miss OH 1983 (4RU Miss America) | |
| 1979 | Rose Burch | Mobile | 20 | |||
| 1978 | Eva Stancil | Gadsden | 22 | |||
| 1977 | Cheryl Burgess | Anniston | 19 | |||
| 1976 | Kyle Ellis | Decatur | 22 | |||
| 1975 | Pamela Flowers | Headland | 19 | 1st runner-up | Photogenic | |
| 1974 | Wyna Lavas | Birmingham | 19 | |||
| 1973 | Diane Fouilhe | Enterprise | 19 | |||
| 1972 | Elaine Barnhill | Robertsdale | 21 | |||
| 1971 | Renee Smith | Mobile | 18 | |||
| 1970 | Kathy Bryant | Bay Minette | 19 | |||
| 1969 | Hitsy Parnell†| Thomasville | 20 | Semi-finalist | †2007 | |
| 1968 | Claudia Robinson | Mobile | 18 | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1967 | SYLVIA HITCHCOCK†| Tuscaloosa | 21 | MISS USA & MISS UNIVERSE | †2015 | |
| 1966 | Susan Scott | Clanton | 19 | |||
| 1965 | Leigh Stanford | Montgomery | 18 | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1964 | Pamela Jean Borgfeldt | Anniston | 21 | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1963 | Dinah Irene Armstrong†| Montgomery | 19 | Semi-finalist | †1990 | |
| 1962 | Jerolyn Ridgeway | Ft. Payne | 20 | |||
| 1961 | Suellen Robinson | Fairfax | 19 | 4th Runner-up | ||
| 1960 | Margaret Gordon | Homewood | 21 | 2nd runner-up | ||
| 1959 | Pat Sullivan | Birmingham | 21 | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1958 | Judith Lucille Carlson†| Birmingham | 18 | 2nd runner-up | †1967 (killed by a gunshot wound while on holiday in St Maarten) | |
| 1957 | Did Not compete | ||||||
| 1956 | Did Not compete | ||||||
| 1955 | Did Not compete | ||||||
| 1954 | Did Not compete | ||||||
| 1953 | Doris Edwards†| Gadsden | 25 | 2nd runner-up | †1970 | |
| 1952 | Doris Edwards†| Gadsden | 24 | †1970 |
16 • Mobile
18 • Greenville
19 • Auburn
15 • Spanish Fort
19 • Birmingham
Top 10
at Miss Teen USA
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
| IMAGE | YEAR | NAME | HOMETOWN | AGE | PLACEMENT | AWARD | NOTES |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 2024 | Ava LeBlanc | Birmingham | 19 | Top 10 | Best Impact | Sister of Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2022 Marcelle LeBlanc |
 | 2023 | Kensey Collins | Spanish Fort | 15 | |||
 | 2022 | AnnaLee Story | Auburn | 19 | |||
 | ​2021 | Dailyn Swann | ​Greenville | ​18 | ​ | ​ | ​ |
 | ​2020 | Katie Watts | ​Mobile | ​16 | ​ | ​ | ​ |
 | ​2019 | Kalin Burt | ​Tuscaloosa | ​18 | ​4th runner-up | ​ | |
 | ​2018 | Kennedy Cromeens | ​Birmingham | ​17 | ​ | ​Congeniality | ​ |
 | 2017 | Claire Scott | ​Vestavia Hills | 17 | ​ | ​ | ​ |
 | ​2016 | Erin Snow | ​​Gadsden | 18 | ​3rd runner-up | ​Photogenic | ​ |
 | ​2015 | Taylor Elliott | ​Trussville | 18 | ​Semi-finalist | ​ | |
 | 2014 | Baskin Champion | Birmingham | 19 | Photogenic | ||
 | 2013 | Lorin Holcombe | Alexander City | 18 | Semi-finalist | ||
 | 2012 | Peyton Brown* | Eufaula | 18 | Semi-finalist | Later Miss AL USA 2016 (T5 & Congeniality Miss USA) | |
 | 2011 | Barron Rae Williams | Dadeville | 16 | |||
 | 2010 | Ashlyn Alongi | Huntsville | 16 | Semi-finalist | ||
 | 2009 | Alexandria Blansit | Fort Payne | 17 | |||
 | 2008 | Courtney Parker | Daphne | 16 | Semi-finalist | ||
 | 2007 | Canden Jackson | Fairhope | 17 | Top 10 | ||
 | 2006 | Carla Baumann | Hueytown | 18 | |||
 | 2005 | Kristen Bell | Aliceville | 17 | |||
 | 2004 | Terra Moody | Birmingham | 18 | Top 10 | ||
 | 2003 | Katherine Lauren Whitlock | Birmingham | 19 | |||
 | 2002 | Hailey Capps | Dothan | 23 | |||
 | 2001 | Rollins Albritton | Andalusia | 18 | |||
 | 2000 | Alexis Dollar | Rehobeth | 18 | |||
 | 1999 | Starla Smith | Dothan | 18 | |||
 | 1998 | Heather Baugh | Woodville | 18 | |||
 | 1997 | Tara Tucker* | Pelham | 18 | Later Miss AL USA 2002 (SF Miss USA) | ||
 | 1996 | Luann Roberts | Luverne | 17 | |||
 | 1995 | Jennifer Otts | Hoover | ||||
 | 1994 | Melanie McLin | Daleville | 18 | |||
 | 1993 | Autumn Smith* | Chelsea | 18 | Later Miss AL USA 1997 (SF Miss USA) | ||
 | 1992 | Christine King | Prattville | 18 | Top 6 | ||
 | 1991 | Stephanie Gwantley | Huntsville | ||||
 | 1990 | Candi Byrd | Cullman | 16 | |||
 | 1989 | Jeannie Plott | Birmingham | 17 | Semi-finalist | ||
 | 1988 | Anna Mingus* | Enterprise | 4th runner-up | Later Miss AL USA 1995 | ||
 | 1987 | Elizabeth Woodman | Pleasant Grove | ||||
 | 1986 | Dell Magee | Alexander City | 16 | |||
 | 1985 | Teresa Cain | Chelsea | ||||
 | 1984 | Teresa Chappell | Westover | ||||
 | 1983 | Jill Renee Johnson | Arley |
| YEAR | NAME | HOMETOWN | AGE | PLACEMENT | AWARD | NOTES |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Ava LeBlanc | Birmingham | 19 | Top 10 | Best Impact | Sister of Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2022 Marcelle LeBlanc |
| 2023 | Kensey Collins | Spanish Fort | 15 | |||
| 2022 | AnnaLee Story | Auburn | 19 | |||
| ​2021 | Dailyn Swann | ​Greenville | ​18 | ​ | ​ | ​ |
| ​2020 | Katie Watts | ​Mobile | ​16 | ​ | ​ | ​ |
| ​2019 | Kalin Burt | ​Tuscaloosa | ​18 | ​4th runner-up | ​ | |
| ​2018 | Kennedy Cromeens | ​Birmingham | ​17 | ​ | ​Congeniality | ​ |
| 2017 | Claire Scott | ​Vestavia Hills | 17 | ​ | ​ | ​ |
| ​2016 | Erin Snow | ​​Gadsden | 18 | ​3rd runner-up | ​Photogenic | ​ |
| ​2015 | Taylor Elliott | ​Trussville | 18 | ​Semi-finalist | ​ | |
| 2014 | Baskin Champion | Birmingham | 19 | Photogenic | ||
| 2013 | Lorin Holcombe | Alexander City | 18 | Semi-finalist | ||
| 2012 | Peyton Brown* | Eufaula | 18 | Semi-finalist | Later Miss AL USA 2016 (T5 & Congeniality Miss USA) | |
| 2011 | Barron Rae Williams | Dadeville | 16 | |||
| 2010 | Ashlyn Alongi | Huntsville | 16 | Semi-finalist | ||
| 2009 | Alexandria Blansit | Fort Payne | 17 | |||
| 2008 | Courtney Parker | Daphne | 16 | Semi-finalist | ||
| 2007 | Canden Jackson | Fairhope | 17 | Top 10 | ||
| 2006 | Carla Baumann | Hueytown | 18 | |||
| 2005 | Kristen Bell | Aliceville | 17 | |||
| 2004 | Terra Moody | Birmingham | 18 | Top 10 | ||
| 2003 | Katherine Lauren Whitlock | Birmingham | 19 | |||
| 2002 | Hailey Capps | Dothan | 23 | |||
| 2001 | Rollins Albritton | Andalusia | 18 | |||
| 2000 | Alexis Dollar | Rehobeth | 18 | |||
| 1999 | Starla Smith | Dothan | 18 | |||
| 1998 | Heather Baugh | Woodville | 18 | |||
| 1997 | Tara Tucker* | Pelham | 18 | |||
| 1996 | Luann Roberts | Luverne | 17 | Later Miss AL USA 2002 (SF Miss USA) | ||
| 1995 | Jennifer Otts | Hoover | ||||
| 1994 | Melanie McLin | Daleville | 18 | |||
| 1993 | Autumn Smith* | Chelsea | 18 | Later Miss AL USA 1997 (SF Miss USA) | ||
| 1992 | Christine King | Prattville | 18 | Top 6 | ||
| 1991 | Stephanie Gwantley | Huntsville | ||||
| 1990 | Candi Byrd | Cullman | 16 | |||
| 1989 | Jeannie Plott | Birmingham | 17 | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1988 | Anna Mingus* | Enterprise | 4th runner-up | Later Miss AL USA 1995 | ||
| 1987 | Elizabeth Woodman | Pleasant Grove | ||||
| 1986 | Dell Magee | Alexander City | 16 | |||
| 1985 | Teresa Cain | Chelsea | ||||
| 1984 | Teresa Chappell | Westover | ||||
| 1983 | Jill Renee Johnson | Arley |
