Bodil Aakre (7 September 1922 – 8 November 2008) was a Norwegian jurist and politician for the

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. She was also known for her involvement with the

Brønnøysund Register Centre Brønnøysund Register Centre (Norwegian Bokmål: Brønnøysundregistrene; formal name Registerenheten i Brønnøysund, Norwegian Nynorsk: Brønnøysundregistra) is a Norwegian government agency that is responsible for the management of numerous ...

Career

She was born in

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. She enrolled as a student in 1942 and graduated as

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in 1948. She then worked as a jurist in

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and

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from 1948 to 1957. In 1957, she was hired as a consultant in Nordland Landbruksselskap. She was elected to the

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from

Nordland Nordland (; smj, Nordlánnda, sma, Nordlaante, sme, Nordlánda, en, Northland) is a county in Norway in the Northern Norway region, the least populous of all 11 counties, bordering Troms og Finnmark in the north, Trøndelag in the south, N ...

in 1969. She originally served as a deputy representative in the period 1965–1969. During this term she served temporarily as a regular representative meanwhile

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were appointed to the

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, until February 1967 when the death of

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meant that Aakre moved up in the hierarchy to serve as a full representative. Kyllingmark was instead covered by another former deputy representative Leif Kolflaath. Bodil Aakre was not re-elected in 1973, but instead served another term as deputy representative. On the local level, Aakre was mayor of

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from 1975 to 1979. She worked as the district stipendiary magistrate (''sorenskriver'') for the

Brønnøy District Court Brønnøy District Court ( no, Brønnøy tingrett) was a district court (Norway), district court in Nordland county, Norway. The court was based in the Brønnøysund, town of Brønnøysund. The court existed from 1919 until 2021. It served the mun ...

from 1973 to 1988. From 1980 she also worked as a head of department in the

. She was called the "

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of the Brønnøysund Register Centre". Aakre was a member of the board of the

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from 1967 to 1971 and of the bank

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from 1977 to 1982. She was the deputy

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of the Directorate of Labour from 1975 to 1983, of the

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from 1972 to 1988 and of Nordlandsbanken from 1982. She was also involved in

Foreningen Norden Foreningen Norden (Norwegian and Danish), Föreningen Norden (Swedish), Norræna félagið (Icelandic), Norrøna Felagið (Faroese), Peqatigiiffik Nunat Avannarliit (Greenlandic) and Pohjola-Norden (Finnish), ''The Norden Associations'', sometimes ...

and Riksmålsforbundet. Aakre retired in 1988. She died in 2008 in

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, where she had lived since 1991.

References

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