The Miss District of Columbia USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the District of Columbia in the Miss USA pageant.
One of the more successful states at Miss USA, the District of Columbia is one of 15 states to win Miss USA more than once and one of only twelve states to win the Miss Congeniality award twice. From 1970 to 1975 they had a streak of six consecutive top 12 placements. This was broken in 1976, but achieved again in 1977.
Two Miss District of Columbia USA titleholderss previously held the Miss District of Columbia Teen USA title and three have competed at Miss America.
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| Year | Name | Hometown | Age1 | Placement at Miss USA | Special awards at Miss USA | Notes |
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| 2012 | Monique Tompkins | Washington, D.C. | 23 | |||
| 2011 | Heather Swann | Washington, D.C. | 22 | |||
| 2010 | MacKenzie Green | Washington, D.C. | ||||
| 2009 | Nicole White | Washington, D.C. | 20 | Previously Miss District of Columbia Teen USA 2004 | ||
| 2008 | Chelsey Rodgers | Washington, D.C. | 25 | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2006[1] | ||
| 2007 | Mercedes Lindsay | Washington, D.C. | 26 | |||
| 2006 | Candace Allen | Washington, D.C. | 22 | Top 10 Finalist | ||
| 2005 | Sarah-Elizabeth Langford | Washington, D.C. | 26 | Previously Miss District of Columbia 2002 / Was contestant and winner on Fear Factor in 2005 on the Miss USA episode #5.29 | ||
| 2004 | Tiara Dews | Washington, D.C. | 21 | Previously Miss District of Columbia Teen USA 2000, top 10 at Miss Teen USA 2000 | ||
| 2003 | Michelle Dollie Wright | Washington, D.C. | 26 | Previously Miss District of Columbia Teen USA 1995 | ||
| 2002 | Shauntay Hinton | Washington, D.C. | Winner | non-semifinalist at Miss Universe 2002 | ||
| 2001 | Liane Angus | Washington, D.C. | 1st runner-up | |||
| 2000 | Rashida Jolley | Washington, D.C. | ||||
| 1999 | Amy Alderson | |||||
| 1998 | Zanice Lyles | |||||
| 1997 | Napiera Groves | Washington, D.C. | 21 | Miss Congeniality | ||
| 1996 | La Chanda Jenkins | 19 | ||||
| 1995 | Marci Andrews | |||||
| 1994 | Angela McGlowan | |||||
| 1993 | Alena Neves | Washington, D.C. | ||||
| 1992 | Wanda Jones | |||||
| 1991 | Lakecia Smith | |||||
| 1990 | Catherine Staples | 23 | Semi-finalist, Finishing in 7th Place | |||
| 1989 | Somaly Susan Sieng | |||||
| 1988 | Elva Anderson | Miss Congeniality | ||||
| 1987 | Edwina Richard | |||||
| 1986 | Desiree Keating | Washington, D.C. | Previously Miss District of Columbia 1984 | |||
| 1985 | Christal Chacon | Washington, D.C. | ||||
| 1984 | Steffanee Leaming | Washington, D.C. | 21 | 4th runner-up | ||
| 1983 | Julie Anne Warner | Washington, D.C. | ||||
| 1982 | Lori Esteep | Washington, D.C. | ||||
| 1981 | Belinda Johnson | Washington, D.C. | ||||
| 1980 | Marianne Ritter | |||||
| 1979 | Cynthia Ramsay | |||||
| 1978 | Wanda Clineman | |||||
| 1977 | Sharon Sutherland | Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1976 | Mary Theresa Clair | Finalist | ||||
| Nancy Stitt | ||||||
| 1975 | Mary Lamond | Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1974 | Robin Lee Utterback | Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1973 | Nancy Plachta | Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1972 | Janet Gail Greenawalt | Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1971 | Susan Pluskoski | Semi-finalist | later Miss New Jersey 1973 as Suzanne Plummer, 2nd runner up to Miss America 1974 | |||
| 1970 | Nikki Phillipp | Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1969 | Shelley Gosman | |||||
| 1968 | Diane Mothershead | semifinalist in Miss World USA 1967 | ||||
| 1967 | Myra Chudy | Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1966 | Sue Counts | Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1965 | Dianna Lynn Batts | Falls Church, Virginia | 4th runner-up | Model on The Price is Right, Miss World USA 1965, 1st runner up in Miss World 1965 | ||
| 1964 | Bobbie Johnson | Winner | Semi-finalist at Miss Universe 1964 | |||
| 1963 | Michele Metrinko | 1st runner-up | Later won the Miss World USA pageant and placed top 7 at Miss World 1963. Her sister Marsha Metrinko also competed at Miss USA 1963 as Miss Maryland and in Miss America 1963 as Miss New York City.[2] | |||
| 1962 | Helen Sweeney | Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1961 | Patricia Brunette | |||||
| 1960 | Doris Lee Jones | |||||
| 1959 | Shirley Ann Hobbs | |||||
| 1958 | Peggy Wolf | |||||
| 1957 | did not compete | |||||
| 1956 | Joanne Holler | |||||
| 1955 | did not compete | |||||
| 1954 | Laura Farley | Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1953 | did not compete | |||||
| 1952 | ||||||
1 Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant 1951 Aletha Agee
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