| Wilmer Amina Carter | |
| State Assembly: | California |
| District: | 62nd |
| Term Start: | December 4, 2006 |
| Term End: | November 30, 2012 |
| Predecessor: | Joe Baca, Jr. |
| Successor: | Steven Bradford (redistricted) |
| Nationality: | American |
| Birth Date: | 12 July 1941 |
| Birth Place: | Neshoba County, Mississippi |
| Spouse: | William Henry "Ratibu" Jacocks |
| Children: | 3 |
| Party: | Democratic |
| Profession: | Businessperson |
| Alma Mater: | California State University, San Bernardino |
| Residence: | Rialto, California |
Wilmer Amina Carter (born July 19, 1941) is an American politician who served in the California State Assembly. She is a Democrat.
Wilmer Amina Carter comes from a large, extended family and spent her childhood years on a farm in Mississippi before moving to San Bernardino.[1]
Carter served 16 years on the Rialto Board of Education from 1983 through 1999. For 23 years from 1973 until 1996, she was a staff member for Congressman George Brown, Jr. One of her jobs was District director. She also coordinated legislative and community relations for Cal State San Bernardino.
A high school in Rialto is named after her. Wilmer Amina Carter High School is the first high school in the Inland Empire named after a living African-American woman.
Assembly member Carter graduated from San Bernardino High School and San Bernardino Valley College, and earned a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in education from California State University, San Bernardino.
During her tenure, Assembly Member Carter has created, co-authored and supported laws that improve health, safety, transportation, jobs, housing and education for the citizens of the 62nd District and California.