Miss Connecticut USA

{{for|the state pageant affiliated with Miss America|Miss Connecticut}}

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Miss Connecticut USA is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Connecticut in the Miss USA pageant, and the name of the title held by its winner. The pageant is directed by Ewald Productions.

Connecticut's most successful placement was in 2013, when Erin Brady was crowned Miss USA. Connecticut's most recent placement was in 2023, when Karla Aponte Roque placed in the Top 20.

The current titleholder is Jenna Hofmann of Fairfield and was crowned on January 26, 2025 at The Marriott Hartford in Windsor, Connecticut. Hofmann will represent Connecticut at Miss USA 2025.

Gallery of titleholders

File:Ashley Bickford.png|Ashley Bickford, Miss Connecticut USA 2010

File:Erin Brady 2014.jpg|Erin Brady, Miss Connecticut USA 2013 and Miss USA 2013

Results summary

Miss USA: Erin Brady (2013)
1st Runners-Up: Diane Zabicki (1962), Pat Denne (1966)
4th Runner-Up: Alita Dawson (2002)
Top 10/12: Tiffany Teixeira (2016), Cynthia Dias (2022)
Top 15/20: Andrea Todd (1954), Joyce Trautwig (1960), Florence Mayette (1961), Janice Shilinsky (1968), Elizabeth Wanderman (1969), Monica Pietrzak (2009), Karla Aponte Roque (2023

Connecticut holds a record of 13 placements at Miss USA.

Winners

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{{Color box|gold|border=darkgray}} Winner
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! width=14%| Placement at Miss USA

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2025

| Jenna Hofmann

| Fairfield

| 23

| Miss Fairfield

| TBA

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2024

| Shavana Clarke

| Bridgeport

| 29

| Miss Greater Bridgeport

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| 2023

| Karla Aponte Roque

| Branford

| 27

| Miss Greater New Haven

| Top 20

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Previously Miss World Connecticut 2019

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| 2022

| Cynthia Dias

| Wolcott

| 22

| Miss Wolcott

| Top 12

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Previously Miss Connecticut's Outstanding Teen 2014

2021

| Amanda Torchia

| Middlebury

| 25

| Miss Middlebury

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2020

| Chelsea Demby

| Farmington

| 23

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2019

| Acacia Courtney

| Hamden

| 26

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Previously Miss Connecticut's Outstanding Teen 2009{{cite news| first=Shana |last=Wickett |title=Pageant winner believes classroom more important than stag |work=New Haven Register |url=https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Pageant-winner-believes-classroom-more-important-11628133.php |date=July 12, 2009}}
Previously Miss Connecticut 2014{{cite news |first=Steve |last=Smith |title=Miss Connecticut 2014 crowned |work=Hartford Courant |url=https://www.courant.com/2014/07/10/miss-connecticut-2014-crowned/ |date=July 10, 2014 |access-date=2019-01-09 |archive-date=2018-08-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180829035553/http://articles.courant.com/2014-07-10/reminder-news/rnw-all-miss-connecticut-2014-20140710_1_miss-connecticut-miss-america-outstanding-teen |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.theday.com/article/20140630/NWS01/306309944/1018 |title=Miss Hamden crowned Miss Connecticut at Garde Arts Center in New London |publisher=www.theday.com |date=July 1, 2014}}

2018

| Jamie Hughes

| Stamford

| 27

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2017

| Olga Litvinenko

| Greenwich

| 27

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Previously Miss Connecticut Teen USA 2007

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| 2016

| Tiffany Teixeira

| Bridgeport

| 24

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| Top 10

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Previously Miss Connecticut Teen USA 2009

2015

| Ashley Golebiewski

| Berlin

| 21

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2014

| Desirée Pérez{{cite web

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| Greenwich

| 26

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| 2013

| Erin Brady

| East Hampton

| 26

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| Miss USA 2013

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Top 10 at Miss Universe 2013

2012

| Marie-Lynn Piscitelli

| North Haven

| 26

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Previously Miss Connecticut Teen USA 2001

2011

| Regina Turner{{cite news|title=Dreams, poise and passion carry pageant contestants: winners named|url=http://www.newbritainherald.com/articles/2010/12/06/news/doc4cfc5a9dcc698837922170.txt|publisher=New Britain Herald|date=2010-12-06|first=Susan|last=Corica}}{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

| Old Saybrook

| 21

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2010

| Ashley Bickford

| Torrington

| 24

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