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Miss New Mexico USA

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Formation
  
1952

Headquarters
  
Albuquerque

Membership
  
Miss USA

Type
  
Beauty pageant

Location
  
New Mexico

Official language
  
English

Miss New Mexico USA

The Miss New Mexico USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of New Mexico in the Miss USA pageant.

Contents

New Mexico has had moderate success at Miss USA. They achieved many placements in the '60s to the '80s but has placed only three times in the past ten years. They have produced one Miss USA, Mai Shanley in 1984.

Results summary

  • Miss USA: Mai Shanley (1984)
  • 1st runners-up: Brenda Denton (1985)
  • 2nd runners-up: Judith Baldwin (1965)
  • 4th runners-up: Bonnie Tafoya (1968), Marlena Garland (1978)
  • Top 5: Michelle Rios (1999)
  • Top 10: Alina Ogle (2003)
  • Top 11: Kriston "Kiki" Killgore (1987)
  • Top 12: Donna Reel (1972), Jonelle Bergquist (1976), Denise Funderburk (1977), Kathy Dawn Patrick (1980)
  • Top 15: Joan Schwartz (1955), Sandra Fullingim (1963), Mary Gard (1969), Jenna Hardin (2004)
  • Top 16: Brittany Toll (2011)

    • Awards

  • Miss Photogenic: Michele Sandoval (1979)
  • Best State Costume: Kriston "Kiki" Killgore (1987)
  • People's Choice & Fan Favorite: Brittany Toll (2011)

    • Winners

    Color key

    1 Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant

    References

    Miss New Mexico USA Wikipedia
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