Rep. Vicky Riback Wilson, a Democrat, represents part of Boone County (District 25) in the Missouri House of Representatives. Elected to her first two-year term in 1996, Wilson serves as vice-chair of the Appropriations for Health and Mental Health, and vice-chair of the Children, Youth and Families Committees.

Rep. Wilson is the only member of the General Assembly appointed to the board of trustees of the Missouri Investment Trust. She is also on the national advisory committee for the Promising Practices network, a resource database for children, families and communities. She serves as secretary of the Children’s Services Commission and co-chairs their special Task Force on Children of Incarcerated Parents. Rep. Wilson is a 1999 Fleming Fellow.

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 throughout the state.

Wilson's work in diversity and community development has been recognized with state and national awards. In addition, she has been recognized for her legislative work on behalf of women, children and families by Citizens for Missouri's Children, Missouri's Citizens for the Arts, ROWEL (Reform Organization for Welfare), Planned Parenthood of Mid-Missouri and Eastern Kansas, and for her support of legislation to protect the environment.

Rep. Wilson has held local and statewide leadership positions in arts, school, service, business, professional, and neighborhood organizations. Currently, she serves on the board of Friends of Peace Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia, on the advisory board for the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia, on the Columbia Entertainment Company community advisory board, and on the steering committee for Junior Leadership-Columbia. Previously she served as co-chair, University Extension Diversity Task Force; president, Missouri Association of Community Arts Agencies; and vice-president, Grindstone-Rock Quarry Neighborhood Association.

Rep. Wilson is a member of the League of Women Voters, the Columbia-Boone County Community Partnership, Museum Associates, and Congregation Beth Shalom, among others. In addition, Rep. Wilson is a self-employed financial and property manager.

A 1964 graduate of University High School in Columbia, Rep. Wilson 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.

Born in 1946 in Columbia, Rep. Wilson currently resides there with her husband, Willy Wilson. They have two children: David and Hollye.