Nancy Wilson

On February 4, 2011, Wilson was appointed by President Obama to the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships for a one-year term.

On April 6, 2010, she was guest of President Barack Obama at the White House Easter Prayer Breakfast.

On 29 October 2005, at Washington's National Cathedral, Wilson was installed as moderator of the Metropolitan Community Churches in succession to the denomination's founder, Troy Perry. Wilson retired from her position in October 2016, and was succeeded by an interim moderator, the Rev. Elder Rachelle Brown.

Wilson was elected moderator of the denomination of Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC) by the church's general conference in Calgary, Alberta, in July 2005. In accordance with the bylaws of the Metropolitan Community Churches, Wilson's name was placed in nomination by the denomination's Moderators Nominating Committee and her nomination was ratified with the overwhelming endorsement of the lay and clergy voting delegates to the 2005 MCC General Conference. Wilson was installed as moderator at the Washington National Cathedral in 2005.

Wilson was the Guest Preacher at the Earl Lectures at Pacific School of Religion (Berkeley, California, January 2002) and has been a guest speaker at Harvard Divinity School, Vanderbilt Divinity School, Allegheny College, Claremont School of Theology, and the University of Southern California.

Local Church Pastoral Service: 2001-2005, Senior Pastor, Church of the Trinity MCC, Sarasota, Florida; 1986–2000, Senior Pastor, MCC Los Angeles, Mother Church of MCC; 1975–1979, Senior Pastor, MCC Detroit; 1974–1975, Senior Pastor, MCC Boston, Worcester, Massachusetts; 1972–1974, Associate Pastor, MCC Boston, Worcester, Massachusetts

Wilson has a deep commitment to ecumenical work and human rights. During 1979-1999, she served as MCC's Chief Ecumenical Officer, representing Metropolitan Community Church at the National Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches.

In 1979, she participated in the first-ever meeting of gay and lesbian religious leaders at the White House with President Jimmy Carter.

Wilson has a long record of service with the Metropolitan Community Church. She was the youngest person ever elected to the MCC Board of Elders in 1976 and served on the board of elders ever since except for a break between 2003 and 2005.

In 1976 she became the youngest person ever to be elected a member of the Metropolitan Community Church Board of Elders.

Wilson received her undergraduate degree from Allegheny College in 1972 before going on to study at Boston University School of Theology with a Rockefeller Fellowship. She also holds an M.Div. from SS. Cyril and Methodius Seminary in Detroit, served as Vice-Moderator of Metropolitan Community Church during 1993-2003 and has pastored Metropolitan Community Church congregations in Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, and California. She is the former senior pastor of Metropolitan Community Church of Los Angeles, the founding church of the Metropolitan Community Churches international movement. She most recently served as senior pastor of Church of the Trinity MCC in Sarasota, Florida.

Wilson is the second person, and the first woman, to serve as moderator of the Metropolitan Community Churches. The Metropolitan Community Church was founded in 1968.

Nancy L. Wilson (born 1950) is an American cleric who served as the moderator of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC or Metropolitan Community Churches).