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][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.

She was also the first contestant from Michigan to win Miss USA, and broke the five-year streak of winners from Texas.

At the time of her coronation, she was a junior marketing and management major at Northwood University at Midland, Michigan.