For the state pageant affiliated with Miss America, see Miss Minnesota.
Miss Minnesota USA
Formation
1952; 72 years ago (1952)
Type
Beauty pageant
Headquarters
Savage
Location
Minnesota
Membership
Miss USA
Official language
English
Key people
Denise Wallace Craig Heitkamp
Website
Official website
Kalie Wright, Miss Minnesota USA 2018Kaylee Unverzagt, Miss Minnesota USA 2008
The Miss Minnesota USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Minnesota in the Miss USA pageant. It is directed by Future Productions based in Savage, Minnesota since its inception in 1995, which also directs the state pageants for Colorado, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Wyoming.[1]
Barbara Elaine Peterson was the first Miss Minnesota USA to be crowned Miss USA (in 1976), and was also the first Miss USA to not place in the Miss Universe pageant. Her sister, Polly Peterson Bowles, was Miss Minnesota USA 1981.[2]
In 2016, Halima Aden became the first contestant to compete wearing a burkini, and the first to wear a hijab the entire time.[3] In 2017, Mikayla Holmgren was the first woman with Down syndrome to compete in a statewide Miss USA pageant.[4]
The current titleholder is Sarah Anderson of Maple Grove was crowned on July 30, 2023, at Ames Center in Burnsville. She represented Minnesota at Miss USA 2023.
^"Future Productions, LLC State Directors". Retrieved 8 February 2017.
^Furst, Randy (1988-02-11). "3rd Miss Minnesota-USA has 'nothing to hide'". Star-Tribune Newspaper of the Twin Cities Mpls.-St. Paul. p. 01A.
^"Halima Aden Breaks Ground as First Somali-American to Compete for Miss Minnesota USA". 17 November 2016.
^Divine, Mary (November 27, 2017). "Standing ovations for first woman with Down syndrome to compete in Miss Minnesota USA". Twin Cities Pioneer Press.
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