Miss Louisiana USA


The Miss Louisiana USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Louisiana in the Miss USA pageant.
Miss Louisiana USA is produced by RPM Productions since 1990, which also produces the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA state pageants for Alabama, North Carolina, and South Carolina. RPM Productions' headquarters is in Aiken, South Carolina.
Francie Millan of New Orleans was crowned Miss Louisiana USA 2025 on September 20, 2025, at Bologna Performing Arts Center in Cleveland. She represented Louisiana at Miss USA 2025.

History

Louisiana is one of only seven states to have three or more Miss USA winners.
Four Miss Louisiana USA titleholders previously held the Miss Louisiana Teen USA title, including Ali Landry, who became the third woman from Louisiana to be crowned Miss USA.
Jennifer Dupont, Miss Louisiana USA 2000, is one of only seven women who have competed in the Miss Teen USA, Miss USA and Miss America pageants.
Louisiana's future success at Miss USA would be evident in the state's first contestant, Jeanne Vaughn Thompson, Miss Louisiana USA 1952 and 1953. She is the only woman to ever compete twice in the history of Miss USA, and to outright win a Miss USA state title twice.
Thompson was also the only two-time state titleholder in Miss USA history, a record she held for 44 years until Shanna Lyn Searles became the second and only other double state titleholder. Searles won the Miss California USA title outright in 1996 after inheriting the state's 1992 title due to the original winner, Shannon Marketic, being crowned Miss USA 1992.
Thompson's overall pageant success includes winning the Miss Louisiana state title and competing at Miss America in 1951, winning the first two Miss Louisiana USA state titles and competing in the first and second Miss USA pageants, becoming the first-ever 1st runner-up in 1952 and a semi-finalist and Miss Congeniality winner in 1953. Her two consecutive participations in Miss USA and subsequent final placements prompted organizers to create a rule allowing a person to compete for the title only once.
Miss Louisiana USA contestants accomplished another feat first, winning both the Miss Congeniality and Miss Photogenic awards ever given to a Miss USA state delegate. Thompson was the winner of the Miss Congeniality award given to the first Miss USA state contestant in 1953.
The second Miss Congeniality award given also went to another contestant from Louisiana, Judy Fletcher in 1960. That year, during the era when both Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants were held at the same time, Fletcher tied with a Miss Universe contestant from Myanmar for the award.
Sharon Brown, who represented Louisiana in 1961, won the first Miss Photogenic award given to a Miss USA state delegate. She also won the Miss USA title, the first Miss Photogenic winner to obtain that feat.
Louisiana is one of only two states to have won both the Miss USA title and the Miss Photogenic award in the same year on two separate occasions.

Results summary

Placements

  • Miss USAs: Eurlyne Howell, Sharon Brown, Ali Landry
  • 1st runners-up: Jeanne Thompson
  • 2nd runners-up: Lisa Lynn Moss
  • 3rd runners-up: Kathy Hebert, Pamela Forrest, Sarie Joubert, Elizabeth Primm, Brittany Guidry
  • 4th runners-up: Robyn Sanders
  • Top 6: Shirelle Hebert, Elizabeth Coxe
  • Top 10/11/12: Bonnie Martin, Storm Hensley, Karen Hoff, Christy Saylor, Debbie Delhomme, Anne-Katherine Lene, Kristen Girault, Candice Bennatt
  • Top 15/16/20: Jeanne Thompson, Mary Lobianco, Judy Fletcher, Elizabeth McNulty, Erin Edmiston, Victoria Paul, Mariah Clayton, Tanya Crowe, Francie Millan
Louisiana holds a record of 30 placements at Miss USA.

Awards

  • Miss Photogenic: Sharon Brown, Kathy Hebert, Elizabeth Primm, Ali Landry
  • Miss Congeniality: Jeanne Thompson, Judy Fletcher
  • Best State Costume: 2nd Place: Elizabeth Primm

    Winners

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YearNameHometownAge1Local titlePlacement at Miss USASpecial awards at Miss USANotes---
2025Francie MillanNew Orleans23Miss New OrleansTop 20---
2024Sydney TaylorLivingston23Miss Lafayette
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2023Sylvia MastersHouma27Miss Sportsman's Paradise---
2022Katelyn "KT" ScannellDenham Springs22Miss Lafayette---
2021Tanya CroweAmite City28Miss New OrleansTop 16Professional cheerleader for the New Orleans Saintsations---
2020Mariah ClaytonZachary23Miss Greater Baton RougeTop 16---
2019Victoria PaulAlexandria26Miss LafayetteTop 15Later a contestant on season 24 of The Bachelor and season 7 of Bachelor in Paradise---
2018Lauren VizzaShreveport27Miss Shreveport
  • Previously Miss Louisiana 2012
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    2017Bethany TrahanLake Charles21Miss Calcasieu---
    2016Maaliyah PapillionLake Charles21Miss Lake Charles---
    2015Candice BennattNew Orleans26Miss Ville PlatteTop 11
  • Previously Miss New Mexico 2012.
    • Former Houston Texans Cheerleader.    		---
    2014Brittany GuidryHouma21Miss Florida Parishes3rd Runner-up
    One of few women to place in the top 5 at both Miss Teen USA and Miss USA
    Cousin of Michelle Berthelot, Miss Louisiana USA 2008    		---
    2013Kristen GiraultMetairie21Miss Florida ParishTop 10New Orleans Saints cheerleader---
    2012Erin EdmistonLafayette22Miss Camellia CityTop 16---
    2011Page PennockShreveport21---
    2010Sara BrooksNew Orleans22---
    2009Lacey MinchewBaton Rouge24
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    2008Michelle BerthelotHammond26Cousin of Brittany Guidry, Miss Louisiana USA 2014---
    2007Elizabeth McNultyLafayette25Top 15---
    2006Christina CuencaChalmette26---
    2005Candice StewartMetairie21
  • Previously Miss Louisiana Teen USA 2002.
    • Contestant on Big Brother 15.    		---
    2004Melissa McConnellRuston27---
    2003Brittney RogersShreveport20Contestant on The Amazing Race 8. Winner of Fear Factor Miss USA episode---
    2002Anne-Katherine LeneAbbevilleTop 12----
    2001Heather HaydenAmite---
    2000Jennifer DupontPlaquemine
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    1999Melissa BongiovanniBaton Rouge---
    1998Debbie DelhommeLafayetteTop 10---
    1997Nikole ViolaWalker---
    1996Ali LandryBreaux Bridge26Miss USA 1996Miss Photogenic
  • Previously Miss Louisiana Teen USA 1990
  • *Top 12 at Miss Teen USA 1990
  • Top 6 finalist at Miss Universe 1996
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    1995Elizabeth CoxeSpringfield24Top 6---
    1994Shirelle HebertArabiTop 6---
    1993Jennifer MitchellLeesville---
    1992Christy SaylorBaton RougeTop 11---
    1991Melinda MurphyWest Monroe---
    1990Jeanne BurnsBaton RougeCurrently evening news anchor for NBC affiliate WVLA in Baton Rouge.---
    1989Elizabeth PrimmHouma3rd Runner-upMiss Photogenic, 2nd Place Best Costume
  • Miss USA at Miss Asia Pacific 1989, did not place; Star Search 1990 Spokesmodel contestant.
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    1988Rhonda Leigh VinsonShreveport22
  • Second runner-up at Miss Louisiana USA 1987
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    1987Carol CarterShreveport
  • Previously Miss Louisiana 1985
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    1986Cecelia BradyOllaNow Cecelia Gonzalez of San Diego, California. Her father was Louisiana State Representative Thomas "Bud" Brady.---
    1985Sarie JoubertShreveport3rd Runner-up
  • 1st runner up at Miss International 1985 as Miss USA.
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    1984Rusanne JourdanBaton Rouge---
    1983Pamela ForrestBaton Rouge3rd Runner-upMrs. America 1987 and Mrs. World 1988---
    1982Lisa MichaelBaton Rouge---
    1981Lisa Lynn MossShreveport2nd Runner-up
  • Later Miss World USA 1981
  • * Top 5 finalist at Miss World 1981
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    1980Kelly BoninBaton Rouge---
    1979Lisa AndersonGretna19---
    1978Tauny HanesBaton Rouge---
    1977Patti RosenbalmBossier City---
    1976Robyn SandersWinnfield4th Runner-up---
    1975Rhonda Hazel ShearNew OrleansTelevision program host and actor, best known for her role as host of the USA Network's weekend movie show, USA Up All Night---
    1974Karen HoffBossier CityTop 12
  • First runner-up at Miss Louisiana USA 1973
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    1973Storm Carleyne HensleyBossier City22Miss Barksdale AFBTop 12Was a sergeant in the Air Force stationed at Barksdale Air Force Base in Bossier City
  • Third runner-up at Miss Louisiana USA 1972
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    1972Bonnie MartinAshland21Top 12---
    1971Diana RisensteinBossier City---
    1970Nadine Ruth RobertsonBossier City20Miss Bossier City---
    1969Patricia "Pat" Ann DupreWashington18Miss St. Landry Parish---
    1968Kathleen Annette "Kathy" HebertFranklin19Miss Lafayette3rd runner-up---
    1967Dianne MaderHouma21---
    1966Tanya BecnelAma---
    1965Terri SommersShreveport19---
    1964Linda GravesShreveport---
    1963Peggy RomeroKaplan---
    1962Diana Jane SmithOak RidgeSemifinalist in Miss World USA 1962---
    1961Sharon BrownMindenMiss USA 1961Miss Photogenic
  • 4th runner up at Miss Universe 1961
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    1960Judy FletcherAlexandriaTop 15Miss Congeniality---
    1959Mary Margaret LobiancoTop 15---
    1958Eurlyne HowellBossier CityMiss USA 1958
  • 3rd runner up at Miss Universe 1958
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    1957Earlyn RegouffreNew Orleans---
    1956Cecile MorrisBaton Rouge19---
    1955Merlin GarciaGretna19---
    1954Sadie VinsonNew OrleansFinalist in the 1955 Miss Dixie Pageant---
    1953Jeanne ThompsonBaton RougeTop 20Miss CongenialityOnly woman ever to compete in Miss USA pageant twice.
  • Previously Miss Louisiana 1951.
    • Also competed in the 1952 Maid of Cotton Pageant    		---
    1952Jeanne ThompsonBaton RougeJeanne ThompsonBaton Rouge21Only woman ever to compete in Miss USA pageant twice.
    • Previously Miss Louisiana 1951.
    Also competed in the 1952 Maid of Cotton Pageant    		1st Runner-UpPreviously Miss Louisiana 1951

    1 Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant