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The Miss Arizona USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state Arizona in the Miss USA pageant.

In 2005, the rights to produce the Miss Arizona USA pageant were given to Casting Crown Productions. This company is directed by Britt Boyse, Miss Missouri USA 1995.

Arizona has had a comparatively large number of semi-finalists and placings, but has never won the Miss USA crown in its own right. However, in 1980, Jineane Ford was awarded the title after Shawn Weatherly (who won the original pageant) won the Miss Universe pageant.

Three Miss Arizona USAs were former Miss Arizona Teen USAs and two were former Miss America contestants. The current titleholder is Tommy Lynn Calhoun from Tucson.

Placements in Miss USA

• First runners-up: Jane Nelson (1965), Jineane Ford (1980) (became Miss USA when Shawn Weatherly won Miss Universe)
• Second runners-up: Susanne Pottenger (1971), Diane Martin (1987), Alicia-Monique Blanco (2009)
• Third runners-up: Ruth Hayes (1969), Sherry Nix (1973)
• Top 10: Michelle Ducote (1985), Lee Anne Locken (1989), Stacey Kole (1998)
• Top 11/12: Toni Abranovic (1977), Ana Rupert (1979), Maricarroll Verlinde (1991), Dannis Shephard (1992),
• Top 15: Maija Bertulson (1956), Jerri Michaelson (1962), Diane McGarry (1963), Roxanne Neeley (1966), Judianne Magnusson (1967), Carlys Peterson (1974), Danielle Demski (2004), Brenna Sakas (2006), Maureen Montagne (2015), Chelsea Myers (2016)
• Top 16: Brittany Brannon (2011)
• Top 20: Jordan Wessel (2014)

Awards

• Miss Congeniality: Cara Jackson (1999)
• Miss Photogenic: Jineane Ford (1980), Brittany Brannon (2011)
• Best State Costume: Daria Sparling (1984), Michelle Ducote (1985), Maricarroll Verlinde (1991)

Winners