| Miss Maine USA | |
| Formation: | 1952 |
| Type: | Beauty pageant |
| Headquarters: | Malden |
| Location: | Massachusetts |
| Membership: | Miss USA |
| Language: | English |
| Key People: | Laurie Clemente Anthony Clemente |
| Website: | Official website |
The Miss Maine USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Maine in the Miss USA pageant. The pageant is directed by The Clemente Organization based in Malden, Massachusetts.
Maine has placed nine times at Miss USA. In 2006, Katee Stearns made the semi-finals, becoming the fifth woman from Maine and the first since 1977 to make the cut. In 2010, Katie Whittier became the first delegate from Maine to reach the top five, finishing 4th runner-up.[1]
Five Miss Maine USAs were former Miss Maine Teen USA titleholders, who competed at Miss Teen USA. One also competed at Miss America.
Anne Baldridge of Portland was crowned Miss Maine USA 2024 on March 10, 2024 at Portland Marriott at Sable Oaks in Portland.
| width=5% | Year | width=20% | Name | width=10% | Hometown | width=3% | Age1 | width=12% | Local title | width=14% | Placement at Miss USA | width=17% | Special awards at Miss USA | width=31% | Notes |
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| 2024 | Anne Baldridge | Portland | 25 | Miss Casco Bay | |||||||||||
| 2023 | Juliana Morehouse Locklear | Portland | 23 | Miss Casco Bay |
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| 2022 | Elizabeth Kervin | Winterport | 20 | Miss Waldo County | Shortest reigning Miss Maine USA (or days) | ||||||||||
| 2021 | VeronicaIris Bates | Portland | 21 |
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| 2020 | Julia Van Steenberghe | Old Town | 21 | Longest reigning Miss Maine USA | |||||||||||
| 2019 | Lexie Elston | Windham | 23 |
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| 2018 | Marina Gray | Trenton | 23 | Top 10 | |||||||||||
| 2017 | Brooke Harris | Lee | 25 | ||||||||||||
| 2016 | Marisa Butler | Standish | 21 |
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| 2015 | Heather Elwell | West Bath | 26 | Placed first runner-up at Miss Maine-USA in 2012, 2013, and 2014 before winning the title in 2015. Competed at Miss Florida-USA in 2008 and 2009. | |||||||||||
| 2014 | Samantha Dahlborg | Gorham | 19 | ||||||||||||
| 2013 | Ali Clair | South China | 23 | Miss Old Port | |||||||||||
| 2012 | Rani Williamson | Portland | 25 | Top 16 | |||||||||||
| 2011 | Ashley Marble | Topsfield | 27 | Top 8[3] |
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| Emily Johnson | 22 | Resigned on April 17, 2011 so she could attend her sister's wedding on the date of the Miss USA pageant. | |||||||||||||
| 2010 | Katie Whittier | 26 | 4th runner-up[5] | ||||||||||||
| 2009 | Ashley Underwood[6] | Benton | 24 | Contestant on [7] | |||||||||||
| 2008 | Kaetlin Parent[8] | Van Buren | 20 |
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| 2007 | Erin Good | Fairfield | 22 | Dr. Good received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in May 2012 | |||||||||||
| 2006 | Katee Stearns[9] | Orono | 19 | Top 15[10] | Previously Maine's Junior Miss 2004 | ||||||||||
| 2005 | Erica Commeau[11] | Brewer | 20 | ||||||||||||
| 2004 | Mackenzie Davis | Hallowell | 24 | Past director of the Miss Maine USA and Miss Maine Teen USA pageants. | |||||||||||
| 2003 | Lacey Hutchinson | Biddeford | 23 | ||||||||||||
| Su-Ying Leung[12] | Oakland | ||||||||||||||
| 2001 | Melissa Bard | Winslow | |||||||||||||
| 2000 | Jennifer Hunt | Rumford |
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| 1999 | Heather Coutts | Portland | Later Mrs. Maine America 2006 under her married name, Heather Clark. | ||||||||||||
| 1998 | Kathy Morse | Standish | |||||||||||||
| 1997 | Stephanie Worcester[13] | Winthrop | 20 | ||||||||||||
| 1996 | Julann Vadnais | Biddeford | 23 | ||||||||||||
| 1995 | Kerri Malinowski[14] | Pittston |
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| 1994 | Colleen Brink | Gorham | |||||||||||||
| 1993 | Jodi Cutting | Waterville | |||||||||||||
| 1992 | Linda Kiene | Scarborough |
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| 1991 | Melissa Oliver | South Portland | |||||||||||||
| 1990 | Leigh Bubar | Sanford | |||||||||||||
| 1989 | Kirsten Blakemore | Brunswick | |||||||||||||
| 1988 | Suzanne Grenier | Scarborough | |||||||||||||
| 1987 | Ginger Kilgore | South Portland | |||||||||||||
| 1986 | Annie Lewis | Portland | |||||||||||||
| 1985 | Tracie Samara | Portland | |||||||||||||
| 1984 | Vickie Lynn Gay[15] | Oxford | 23 | ||||||||||||
| 1983 | Rosemarie Hemond | Minot | |||||||||||||
| 1982 | Theresa Cloutier | South Portland | |||||||||||||
| 1981 | Judy Lynn Footer[16] | Bath | |||||||||||||
| 1980 | Victoria Elias[17] | Benton | |||||||||||||
| 1979 | Valerie Crooker | Brunswick |
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| 1978 | Catherine Ursula Ledue | Portland | |||||||||||||
| 1977 | Tina Brown[18] | Portland | 21 | Top 12 | |||||||||||
| 1976 | Dawn St. Clair | Waterville | |||||||||||||
| 1975 | Denise Hill | Orono | |||||||||||||
| 1974 | Rebecca Titcomb[19] | Houlton | 19 | ||||||||||||
| 1973 | Carlene Quimby | Auburn | |||||||||||||
| 1972 | Cynthia Luce | Sugarloaf Mountain | |||||||||||||
| 1971 | Ruth McCleery | Farmington | |||||||||||||
| 1970 | Margaret McAleer | Waterville | 20 | Top 15 |
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| 1969 | Elaine Bolduce | Winslow | |||||||||||||
| 1968 | Cheryl Campbell | Skowhegan | |||||||||||||
| 1967 | Marlo Williams | Bangor | |||||||||||||
| 1966 | Susan Bartash | Rumford | |||||||||||||
| 1965 | Georgia Wilson | Portland | |||||||||||||
| 1964 | Corneille "Connie" Edwards | Mechanic Falls | |||||||||||||
| 1963 | Laurel Barker | Portland | |||||||||||||
| 1962 | Karen J. Henderson | South Portland | |||||||||||||
| 1961 | Barbara Dyer | Dexter | |||||||||||||
| 1960 | Terry Tripp | Lewiston | |||||||||||||
| 1959 | Carolyn Komant | Kittery | 18 | Top 15 | |||||||||||
| 1958 | Karen Hanson | Cumberland Center | |||||||||||||
| 1957 | Roberta Aymie | Jackman | |||||||||||||
| 1956 | Did not compete | ||||||||||||||
| 1955 | Did not compete | ||||||||||||||
| 1954 | Did not compete | ||||||||||||||
| 1953 | Jackie Lee | Cape Neddick | 22 | Top 20 | |||||||||||
| 1952 | Jean Marie Lemire* | Old Town | |||||||||||||