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

Personal life

She was born in

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as the oldest child of Gerd and Odd Graver. She was a granddaughter of Torjus Graver and niece of

Petter Graver Petter Graver (30 May 1920 – 21 January 1995) was a Norwegian jurist who first served as a diplomat from 1947 to 1988, then as a lawyer until his death. He was the Norwegian ambassador to several countries, among them Israel and the Soviet Union. ...

. She was married to Supreme Court Justice Lars Oftedal Broch, grandson of Lars Oftedal. They resided at

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Career

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

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from 1987 to 1995. During this period she was behind a

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of the skateboard in Norway. In 1995 she was appointed as a presiding judge in the

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. She was also a board member of the National Institute for Consumer Research, Amnesty International Norway and a member of the

Norwegian Parliamentary Intelligence Oversight Committee Parliament's Intelligence Oversight Committee ( no, Stortingets kontrollutvalg for etterretnings-, overvåkings- og sikkerhetstjeneste), commonly known as the EOS Committee ( no, EOS-utvalget) is Norway's body responsible for supervising public int ...

. She died in February 2009.

References

1945 births 2009 deaths People from Bærum Ombudsmen in Norway Directors of government agencies of Norway Norwegian judges {{norway-law-bio-stub