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 on the board of trustees of the Missouri Investment Trust, serves as secretary of the Children’s Services Commission, and co-chairs their special Task Force on Children of Incarcerated Parents. Rep. Wilson was selected as a 1999 Flemming Fellow and, in 2000, a participant in Harvard University's Kennedy School for 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, she worked for the University of Missouri as an administrator and leadership educator throughout the state.

Rep. Wilson has received state and national awards for her efforts in community development, diversity awareness, and legislative action on behalf of women, children, families, and mental health. In the year 2000 she received 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 Organization. She is an honorary board member for Columbia SAFE KIDS Coalition. She also serves on the Columbia Entertainment Company community advisory board and on the steering committee for the Chamber of Commerce Junior Leadership-Columbia.

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.