- Peggy in House Session, March 14, 2011
Peggy signs the Oath of Office with Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell
Representative Peggy Wilson is now serving her 12th year representing District 2. She chairs the Transportation Committee and also serves on Resources, Education, State Affairs, Economic Development, Trade & Tourism, the Joint Legislative House Committee, and on several House Finance Subcommittees.
Peggy was born in Anamosa, Iowa, where she grew up on a dairy farm and attended local schools. She did post secondary work in Missouri and North Carolina and is a registered nurse.
Peggy and her husband, Woody, first moved to Tok, Alaska in 1993 where she worked as a registered nurse and became an instructor for emergency medical technicians. They moved to Wrangell in 1997 where Peggy continued in the nursing field.
Peggy in one of her kuspuks that legislators wear on Fridays.
In 2000, Peggy was elected to the Alaska House of Representatives and became the first woman in U.S. history to have been elected and serve in two state legislatures – North Carolina where she was elected to three terms and now in Alaska.
Peggy is passionate about Southeast Alaska and has fought valiantly for better education, healthy communities, affordable energy, fisheries concerns, regional transportation issues (including the ferry system), for our area and Alaska as a whole. She has also been a long time advocate for a statewide fiscal plan.
Little Norway parade in Petersburg, 2010
Peggy is an active member of her church, and loves spending time with Woody on their boat. They have 3 beautiful children as well as 8 grandchildren, and 3 great-grandchildren.
Max Gruenberg, Pete Petersen, Chair Peggy Wilson, Lance Pruitt, Craig Johnson
