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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

FORM 10-K

[X]	ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2002

Commission file number 0-10402

WILSON BANK HOLDING COMPANY

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:
(615) 444-2265

		Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: None
		Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:

Common Stock, $2.00 par value per share

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant: (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.       Yes  [X]  No  [  ]

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of the registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K. [  ]

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an accelerated filer (as defined in Exchange Act Rule 12b-2).  Yes  [  ]  No  [X]

The aggregate market value of the voting stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant on June 28, 2002, the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter, was approximately $72,906,070. For purposes of this calculation, “affiliates” are considered to be the directors of the registrant. The market value calculation was determined using $40.75 per share.

Shares of common stock, $2.00 par value per share, outstanding on March 1, 2003 were 2,133,305.

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PART I

Item 1. Description of Business.

General

Wilson Bank Holding Company (the “Company”) was incorporated on March 17, 1992 under the laws of the State of Tennessee. The purpose of the Company was to acquire all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of Wilson Bank and Trust (the “Bank”) and act as a one-bank holding company. On November 17, 1992, the Company acquired 100% of the capital stock of the Bank pursuant to the terms of a plan of share exchange and agreement.

All of the Company’s banking business is conducted through the Bank, a state chartered bank organized under the laws of the State of Tennessee, and two fifty-percent owned subsidiaries, DeKalb Community Bank (“DCB”) and Community Bank of Smith County (“CBSC”). The Bank, on December 31, 2002, had eight full service banking offices located in Wilson County, Tennessee, one full service banking facility in Trousdale County, Tennessee and one full service banking office in western Davidson County. The Company anticipates that it will be opening branch locations at Leeville-109 and Gordonsville in the third quarter of 2003. The Bank’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Hometown Finance, Inc., was dissolved in 2001 and its assets and liabilities were distributed to the Bank. DCB had two full service banking offices in DeKalb County, one office located in Smithville, Tennessee and one office located in Alexandria, Tennessee. CBSC had one office located in Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee. DCB began operations in April 1996 and CBSC began operations in December 1996. As of December 31, 2002, revenues and expenses of DCB and CBSC, have not had a material effect on the earnings of the Company.

The Company’s principal executive office is located at 623 West Main Street, Lebanon, Tennessee, which is also the principal location of the Bank. The Bank’s branch offices are located at 1444 Baddour Parkway, Lebanon, Tennessee; 200 Tennessee Boulevard, Lebanon, Tennessee; Public Square, Watertown, Tennessee; 8875 Stewart’s Ferry Pike, Gladeville, Tennessee; 1476 North Mt. Juliet Road, Mt. Juliet, Tennessee; 127 McMurry Boulevard, Hartsville, Tennessee; 1130 Castle Heights Avenue North, Lebanon, Tennessee; the Wal-Mart Super Center, Lebanon, Tennessee; and 4736 Andrew Jackson Parkway in Hermitage, Tennessee. Management believes that Wilson County and Trousdale County offer an environment for continued banking growth in the Company’s target market, which consists of local consumers, professionals and small businesses. The Bank offers a wide range of banking services, including checking, savings, and money market deposit accounts, certificates of deposit and loans for consumer, commercial and real estate purposes. The Bank also offers custodial, trust and discount brokerage services to its customers. The Bank does not have a concentration of deposits obtained from a single person or entity or a small group of persons or entities, the loss of which would have a material adverse effect on the business of the Bank. Furthermore, no concentration of loans exists within a single industry or group of related industries.

The Bank was organized in 1987 to provide Wilson County with a locally-owned, locally-managed commercial bank. Since its opening, the Bank has experienced a steady growth in deposits and loans as a result of providing personal, service-oriented banking services to its targeted market. For the year ended December 31, 2002, the Company reported net earnings of approximately $8.5 million and had total assets of approximately $752.8 million.

DCB was organized and began operations as a de novo state chartered bank in 1996. DCB is 50% owned by the Company and 50% owned by residents of DeKalb County. DCB operates two full-service branches, one in Smithville and one in Alexandria, Tennessee. DCB is considered a subsidiary of the Company for purposes of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956.

Management believes that DeKalb County offers an environment for continued growth since it is geographically close to Wilson County. DCB, the only locally-owned bank in DeKalb County, offers a wide range of banking services, including checking, savings, and money market deposit accounts, certificates of deposit and loans for consumer, commercial and real estate purposes. DCB does not have a concentration of deposits obtained from a single person or entity or a small group of persons or entities, the loss of which would have a material adverse effect on the business of DCB. Furthermore, no concentration of loans exists within a single industry or group of related industries.

CBSC was organized as a de novo state chartered bank in 1996. CBSC is 50% owned by the Company and 50% owned by residents of Smith County. CBSC is considered a subsidiary of the Company for purposes of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956. Management believes that Smith County offers an environment for continued growth since it is contiguous to Wilson County and has only three other financial institutions serving its residents. CBSC offers a wide range of banking services, including checking, savings, and money market deposit accounts, certificates of deposit and loans for consumer, commercial and real estate purposes. CBSC does not have a concentration of deposits obtained from a single person or entity or a small group of persons or entities, the loss of which would have a material adverse effect on the business of CBSC. Furthermore, no concentration of loans exists within a single industry or group of related industries.

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Financial and Statistical Information

The Company’s audited consolidated financial statements, selected financial data and Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations contained in the Company’s Annual Report to Shareholders for the year ended December 31, 2002 filed as Exhibit 13 to this Form 10-K (the “2002 Annual Report”), are incorporated herein by reference.

Regulation and Supervision

In addition to the information set forth herein, Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, incorporated by reference in Item 7 hereof, further discusses recent banking legislation and regulation and should be reviewed in conjunction herewith.

The Company, the Bank, DCB and CBSC are subject to extensive regulation under state and federal statutes and regulations. The discussion in this section, which briefly summarizes certain of such statutes, does not purport to be complete, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to such statutes. Other state and federal legislation and regulations directly and indirectly affecting banks are likely to be enacted or implemented in the future; however, such legislation and regulations and their effect on the business of the Company and its subsidiaries cannot be predicted.

The Company is a bank holding company within the meaning of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (the “Act”) and is registered with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Board”). The Company is required to file annual reports with, and is subject to examination by, the Board. The Bank, DCB and CBSC are chartered under the laws of the State of Tennessee and are subject to the supervision of, and are regularly examined by, the Tennessee Department of Financial Institutions. The Bank, DCB and CBSC are also regularly examined by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Under the Act, a bank holding company may not directly or indirectly acquire ownership or control of more than five percent of the voting shares or substantially all of the assets of any company, including a bank, without the prior approval of the Board. In addition, bank holding companies are generally prohibited under the Act from engaging in non-banking activities, subject to certain exceptions and the recent modernization of the financial services industry in connection with the passing of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 (the “GLB Act”). Under the Act, the Board is authorized to approve the ownership by a bank holding company of shares of any company whose activities have been determined by the Board to be so closely related to banking or to managing or controlling banks as to be a proper incident thereto.

In November 1999, the GLB Act became law. Under the GLB Act, a “financial holding company” may engage in activities the Board determines to be financial in nature or incidental to such financial activity or complementary to a financial activity and not a substantial risk to the safety and soundness of such depository institutions or the financial system. Generally, such companies may engage in a wide range of securities activities and insurance underwriting and agency activities. The Company has not made application to the Board to become a “financial holding company.”

Under the Tennessee Bank Structure Act, a bank holding company which controls 30% or more of the total deposits in all federally insured financial institutions in Tennessee is prohibited from acquiring any bank in Tennessee. Furthermore, no bank holding company may acquire any bank in Tennessee that has been in operation less than five years or organize a new bank in Tennessee, except in the case of certain interim bank mergers and acquisitions of banks in financial difficulty. State banks and national banks in Tennessee, however, may establish branches anywhere in the state.

The Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act of 1994 (the “IBBEA”) authorized interstate acquisitions of banks and bank holding companies without geographic limitation beginning on June 1, 1997. In addition, on that date, the IBBEA authorized a bank to merge with a bank in another state as long as neither of the states has opted out of interstate branching between the date of enactment of the IBBEA and May 1, 1997. Tennessee enacted interstate branching laws in response to the federal law which prohibit the establishment or acquisition in Tennessee by any bank of a branch office, branch bank or other branch facility in Tennessee except (i) a Tennessee-chartered bank, (ii) a national bank which has its main office in Tennessee or (iii) a bank which merges or consolidates with a Tennessee-chartered bank or national bank with its main office in Tennessee.

The Company, the Bank, DCB and CBSC are subject to certain restrictions imposed by the Federal Reserve Act and the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, respectively, on any extensions of credit to the bank holding company or its subsidiary banks, on investments in the stock or other securities of the bank holding company or its subsidiary banks, and on taking such stock or other securities as collateral for loans of any borrower. The Bank, DCB and CBSC all take Company Common Stock as collateral for borrowings subject to the aforementioned restrictions.

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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 (“FDICIA”) covers a wide expanse of banking regulatory issues. FDICIA deals with recapitalization of the Bank Insurance Fund, with deposit insurance reform, including requiring the FDIC to establish a risk-based premium assessment system, and with a number of other regulatory and supervisory matters.

The Financial Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 (“FIRREA”) provides that a holding company’s controlled insured depository institutions are liable for any loss incurred by the FDIC in connection with the default of, or any FDIC-assisted transaction involving, an affiliated insured bank or savings association.

The maximum permissible rates of interest on most commercial and consumer loans made by the Company’s bank subsidiaries are governed by Tennessee’s general usury law and the Tennessee Industrial Loan and Thrift Companies Act (“Industrial Loan Act”). Certain other usury laws affect limited classes of loans, but the Company believes that the laws referenced above are the most significant. Tennessee’s general usury law authorizes a floating rate of 4% per annum over the average prime or base commercial loan rate, as published by the Federal Reserve Board from time to time, subject to an absolute 24% per annum limit. The Industrial Loan Act, which is generally applicable to most of the loans made by the Company’s bank subsidiaries in Tennessee, authorizes an interest rate of up to 24% per annum and also allows certain loan charges, generally on a more liberal basis than does the general usury law.

Competition

The banking industry is highly competitive. The Company, through its subsidiary banks, competes with national and state banks for deposits, loans, and trust and other services.

The Bank competes with much larger commercial banks in Wilson County, the Bank’s primary market area, including four banks in Wilson County owned by regional multi-bank holding companies headquartered out of Tennessee and four banks owned by Tennessee multi-bank holding companies. These institutions enjoy existing depositor relationships and greater financial resources than the Company and can be expected to offer a wider range of banking services. In addition, the Bank competes with two credit unions located in Wilson County and two locally-owned banks which were organized in 2001.

DCB competes with much larger commercial banks in DeKalb County, including two banks owned by Tennessee multi-bank holding companies. While these institutions enjoy existing depositor relationships and greater financial resources than DCB and can be expected to offer a wider range of banking services, the Company believes that DCB can expect to attract customers since it is locally owned and most loan and management decisions will be made at the local level. In addition, the DCB is the only locally-owned commercial bank headquartered in DeKalb County.

CBSC competes with three commercial banks in or near Smith County, including two banks based in Smith County and one based in an adjacent county. These institutions enjoy existing depositor relationships; however, the Company believes that CBSC can be expected to offer a wider range of banking services at CBSC through its financial resources as well as programs offered by other subsidiaries of the Company.

Given the competitive market place, the Company makes no predictions as to how its relative position will change in the future.

Monetary Policies

The results of operations of the Bank, the Company and the Company’s other bank subsidiaries are affected by the policies of the regulatory authorities, particularly the Board. An important function of the Board is to regulate the national supply of bank credit in order to combat recession and curb inflation. Among the instruments used to attain these objectives are open market operations in U.S. government securities, changes in the discount rate on bank borrowings and changes in reserve requirements relating to member bank deposits. These instruments are used in varying combinations to influence overall growth and distribution of bank loans, investments and deposits, and their use may also affect interest rates charged on loans and paid for deposits. Policies of the regulatory agencies have had a significant effect on the operating results of commercial banks in the past and are expected to do so in the future. The effect of such policies upon the future business and results of operations of the Company, the Bank, DCB and CBSC cannot be predicted with accuracy.

Employment

As of March 15, 2003, the Company and its subsidiaries collectively employed 233 full-time equivalent employees and 28 part-time employees. Additional personnel will be hired as needed to meet future growth.

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Available Information

     The Company’s Internet website is http://www.wilsonbank.com. Please note that our website address is provided as an inactive textual reference only. The Company makes available free of charge on its website the Company’s annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and amendments to those reports as soon as reasonably practicable after it electronically files or furnishes such materials to the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). The information provided on our website is not part of this report, and is therefore not incorporated by reference herein unless such information is otherwise specifically referenced elsewhere in this report.

Statistical Information Required by Guide 3

The statistical information required to be displayed under Item 1 pursuant to Guide 3, “Statistical Disclosure by Bank Holding Companies,” of the Exchange Act Industry Guides is incorporated herein by reference to the Consolidated Financial Statements and the notes thereto and the Management’s Discussion and Analysis sections in the Company’s 2002 Annual Report. Certain information not contained in the Company’s 2002 Annual Report, but required by Guide 3, is contained in the tables immediately following:

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WILSON BANK HOLDING COMPANY

Form 10-K

December 31, 2002

I.		Distribution of Assets, Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity: Interest Rate and Interest Differential
		The Schedule which follows indicates the average balances for each major balance sheet item, an analysis of net interest income and the change in interest income and interest expense attributable to changes in volume and changes in rates.
		The difference between interest income on interest-earning assets and interest expense on interest-bearing liabilities is net interest income, which is the Company’s gross margin. Analysis of net interest income is more meaningful when income from tax-exempt earning assets is adjusted to a tax equivalent basis. Accordingly, the following schedule includes a tax equivalent adjustment of tax-exempt earning assets, assuming a weighted average Federal income tax rate of 34%.
		In this Schedule “change due to volume” is the change in volume multiplied by the interest rate for the prior year. “Change due to rate” is the change in interest rate multiplied by the volume for the current year. Changes in interest income and expense not due solely to volume or rate changes are included in the “change due to rate” category.
		Non-accrual loans have been included in the loan category. Loan fees of $506,000, $586,000 and $508,000 for 2002, 2001 and 2000, respectively, are included in loan income and represent an adjustment of the yield on these loans.

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WILSON BANK HOLDING COMPANY

Form 10-K

December 31, 2002

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WILSON BANK HOLDING COMPANY

Form 10-K

December 31, 2002