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The Miss Iowa competition is the official preliminary for the state of Iowa in the Miss America Scholarship Competition. Bailey Hodson of Des Moines was crowned Miss Iowa 2022 on June 11, 2022 at Adler Theatre in Davenport, Iowa. She will compete for the title of Miss America 2023 at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut in December 2021. No contestant from Iowa has ever won the national Miss America title although two Miss Iowa Titleholders have been named first runner-up. Cheryl Browne, Miss Iowa 1970, competed in the Miss America 1971 pageant as the first African American contestant.