Carole Gist
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".
Carole Anne-Marie Gist (born May 8, 1969) is an American tv host, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss USA 1990. Gist was the first African American woman to win the Miss USA title.[1]
Gist first won the title of Miss Michigan USA and went on to win the Miss USA crown on March 2, 1990, in Wichita, Kansas.[1][2] The 1990 pageant had representatives from Georgia (Brenda Leithleiter), Alaska (Karin Elizabeth Meyer), Kentucky (Tiffany Tenfelde), South Carolina (Gina Tolleson, who as first runner-up then went on to represent the country at the Miss World pageant, winning the title) and Karin Hartz of New Jersey making up with Gist the Top 6 finalists. Gist, a Script error: No such module "convert". Detroit native,[1] 20 years old at the time, eventually became first runner-up to Mona Grudt of Norway in the Miss Universe pageant of that same year. She was also the first contestant from Michigan to win Miss USA, and broke the five-year streak of winners from Texas.
Personal life
Gist is a graduate of Cass Technical High School in Detroit. At the time of her coronation, she was a junior marketing and management major at Northwood University at Midland, Michigan.[1]
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Template:Miss USA titleholders Template:Miss Universe 1990 delegates Script error: No such module "Navbox". Template:Michigan Pageant Winners
Script error: No such module "Authority control".
- Pages with script errors
- 1969 births
- Cass Technical High School alumni
- Living people
- Miss Universe 1990 contestants
- Miss USA 1990 delegates
- Miss USA winners
- People from Midland, Michigan
- Television personalities from Detroit
- Northwood University alumni
- African-American beauty pageant winners
- 20th-century American people
- 20th-century African-American women
- 20th-century African-American people