Kjersti Graver

Kjersti Graver (8 October 1945 – 14 February 2009) was a Norwegian jurist.

Personal life

She was born in Oslo[1] as the oldest child of Gerd and Odd Graver. She was a granddaughter of Torjus Graver[2] and niece of Petter Graver.

She was married to Supreme Court Justice Lars Oftedal Broch, grandson of Lars Oftedal.[1] They resided at Jar.[3]

Career

She took her law degree in 1970. After serving as a deputy judge and working in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs and Administration,[4] she was hired as a head of department in the Norwegian Consumer Council in 1979.[1] From 1984 to 1987 she worked for the Dutch Consumer Research Institute.[4]

She served as the Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman from 1987 to 1995.[1] During this period she was behind a prohibition of the skateboard in Norway.[5] In 1995 she was appointed as a presiding judge in the Borgarting Court of Appeal.[1]

She was also a board member of the National Institute for Consumer Research,[4] Amnesty International Norway and a member of the Norwegian Parliamentary Intelligence Oversight Committee. She died in February 2009.[6]

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References
  1. "Kjersti Graver". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian).
  2. Møller, Tryggve Juul, ed. (1966). "Graver, Odd". Studentene fra 1941 (in Norwegian). Oslo: Bokkomiteen for Studentene fra 1941. p. 188.
  3. "60 år 8. oktober: Lagdommer Kjersti Graver" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 16 September 2005.
  4. "Kjersti Graver 50 år 8. oktober" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 16 September 2005.
  5. Meland, Astrid (25 January 2008). "De forbød skateboard i Norge". Dagbladet (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2008-09-12.
  6. "Kjersti Graver er død". Norwegian News Agency. 19 February 2009. Archived from the original on 20 February 2009. Retrieved 19 February 2009.
Civic offices
Preceded by
Hans Petter Lundgaard		 Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman
1987–1995		 Succeeded by
Torfinn Bjarkøy


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