91st General Assembly
Rep. Vicky Riback Wilson, a Democrat,
represents the eastern portion of Columbia and Boone County (District 25) in
the Missouri House of Representatives.
Elected to her first two-year term in 1996,
Rep. Wilson is a member of the Children’s Services Commission, serving as
secretary and co-chairing the Commission’s Task Force on Children of
Incarcerated Parents, and she is on the Board of Trustees of the Missouri
Investment Trust. Rep. Wilson was selected as a 1999 Flemming Fellow and, in
2000, a participant in Harvard University’s Kennedy School for Government
program for senior executives in state and local government.
Rep.
Wilson served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Uganda in 1969 and 1970 and worked
in Indonesia in 1973 and 1974, where she taught English and co-edited a
guidebook on Indonesia. Rep. Wilson has
also taught Head Start, high school, college, and community classes and has
worked as a community arts administrator.
For more than 10 years, Wilson worked for the University of Missouri as
an administrator and leadership educator for youth and adults throughout the
state.
Rep. Wilson’s state and national awards
attest to her work for social justice, community development, and diversity
awareness, and her legislative action on behalf of women, children, families,
and mental health. In 2001 she received
the Mildred Bringewatt Social Justice Award, Athena Award, Missouri Bar
Association Award, Missouri Women’s Council Rose Kemp Public Service Award,
NAMI 2001 Hero of the Year award, Distinguished Friend of the MU Sinclair
School of Nursing Award, the People First of Missouri Legislator of the Year
award, Missouri Recovery Network’s “Taking Action” Leadership Award for
supporting youth and communities, and was inducted into a university honorary
society in recognition of her commitment to the University of Missouri. In 2000 she was honored by receiving the
Phoenix Program Award, the 2000 Human Rights Award of the University of
Missouri, the Betty Saunders Award for Outstanding Democratic Elected Official,
and the DOVE Award for her work against domestic violence.
Rep. Wilson has held local and
statewide leadership positions in arts, school, service, business,
professional, and neighborhood organizations.
Currently, she is a member of three boards associated with the
University of Missouri: the Friends of Peace Studies Board, the advisory board
for the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, and the Alumni
Board for the College of Education. She is an honorary board member for
Columbia SAFE KIDS Coalition and serves on the Columbia Entertainment Company
Community Advisory Board, the steering committee for the Columbia Chamber of
Commerce’s Junior Leadership-Columbia, and local Advisory Committee for Habitat
for Humanity.
Born in Columbia in 1946, she is a 1964
graduate of University High School. She received a bachelor of arts degree in
English from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 and a master’s degree in
higher and adult education from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1981.
Self-employed as a property manager and
financial officer, Rep. Wilson resides in Columbia with her husband,
Willy. They have two adult children.