Christopher Wilson is a candidate for Callaway County Prosecuting Attorney.
Chris currently serves as the First Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for the Callaway County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. In that position, Chris handles a variety of cases including drug crimes, property crimes, and crimes committed against children.
Chris also serves as the City Prosecutor for Fulton having twice been elected to that position. He also works part-time as the City Prosecutor for Auxvasse and the Municipal Judge for New Bloomfield.
Chris has been married to his wife, Kristie, a Missouri native, for 18 years. Kristie teaches third and fourth grade at St. Peter Catholic School where she has taught for nine years. Their son, Ashton, is an eighth grade student at St. Peter.
Although he stays very busy in his roles as a state prosecutor, city prosecutor and city judge, Chris makes every effort to stay active in the community. He is a member of the Fulton Breakfast Optimist Club and serves on its Board of Directors. He is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Panther Booster Club that supports St. Peter School athletic teams and he volunteers his time to maintain the gym floor at the school. He is a member of the Callaway County Republican Central Committee representing Fulton (Ward 3). He has also coached youth baseball and football teams for the City of Fulton and YMCA.
Chris was born in Oxford, Mississippi, on September 16, 1968. His parents, Jerry and Peggy Wilson, taught him the value of hard work and responsibility at an early age. His father has worked as a pharmacist for nearly 40 years, most recently for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in Kansas City. His mother has worked as a secretary, waitress and seamstress. “My parents worked extremely hard to raise four children. They taught all of us to work hard and treat all people with fairness, respect and dignity.”
Chris graduated from the University of Louisiana at Monroe in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology. Following graduation he entered law school at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) and graduated in 1995. While attending law school, Chris interned in the Hinds County (Mississippi) District Attorney’s Office with Assistant District Attorney Cynthia Speetjens. During that internship, Chris worked almost entirely on homicide cases. He worked primarily on a murder-for-hire case and subsequently testified on behalf of the State in a conspiracy trial and a capital murder trial. His work helped the State secure
convictions for three defendants, all of whom received life sentences for their roles in the murder plot.
Following graduation from law school in 1995, Chris and Kristie decided to return to her home state of Missouri. “Having visited Missouri many times to visit Kristie’s family, we both knew that we wanted to live here. Callaway County is our home.”
Chris has practiced law for more than 14 years and most of that has been as a trial lawyer. He has spent over ten years prosecuting adult and juvenile offenders in Callaway County.