Ruby Gilbert

{{short description|American politician}}

{{distinguish|Ruby I. Gilbert}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Ruby Gilbert

|image = Ruby Gilbert.jpg

|caption = Ruby Gilbert in 1993

|state_house = Kansas

|district = 89th

|term_start = 1991

|term_end = January 10, 2005

|preceded = Theo Cribbs

|succeeded = Melody McCray-Miller

|birth_date = {{birth date|1929|12|19}}

|birth_place = Dallas, Texas, U.S.

|death_date = {{death date and age|2010|2|28|1929|12|19}}

|death_place =

|party = Democratic

|education =

|spouse = Booker

|children =

}}

Ruby Gilbert (December 19, 1929 – February 28, 2010) was an American politician.

Gilbert was born in Childress, Texas and was raised in Dallas, Texas. In 1954, Gilbert moved to Wichita, Kansas and worked as a nurse's aide at Wesley Hospital in Wichita. Gilbert served in the Kansas House of Representatives from 1991 to 2004, from Wichita, and was the first African-American woman to be elected to the Kansas Legislature. Gilbert was appointed to the Kansas House of Representatives in 1991 to fill a vacancy and then was elected to the house in 1992. She was a Democrat. Gilbert died from cancer.[https://www.kansas.com/news/local/article1024275.html Gilbert a mentor, 'lady of integrity,'][http://www.kansas.gov/government/legislative/journals/2010/sj0304.pdf Journal of the Kansas Senate-March 4, 2010-Senate Resolution 1832 Honoring Representative Ruby Gilbert-pg. 1131][https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/474521 Kansas Memory-Ruby Gilbert]