Magnhild Meltveit Kleppa (born 12 November 1948 in
Fister,
Norway
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) is a
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politician for the
Centre Party.
Kleppa is educated as a teacher at
Kristiansand Teacher Training College in 1970. She worked as a teacher from 1967 to 1992. She was a member of the
Hjelmeland
is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Ryfylke. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Hjelmelandsvågen. Other villages in the municipality include Fister, Årdal, ...
municipal council during the 1980s and a member of the Norwegian Parliament from 1993 until 2013. She then served as
Governor of Rogaland County from 2013-2019.
Political career
She was elected to the
Parliament of Norway for the first time
in 1993, and has been reelected four times, lastly
in 2009. She did not seek reelection in the
2013 Norwegian parliamentary election. Her political advisor is fellow Centre Party member
Sigrid Brattabø Handegard
Sigrid Brattabø Handegard (born 27 December 1963) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party.
Early life
Handegard was educated at Rogne Upper Secondary School, specialising in nursing auxiliary skills.
She worked as a nursing auxiliary i ...
.
She was the
Minister of Social Affairs from 17 Oct 1997 until 17 March 2000. From 17 October 2005 until 21 September 2007, she was the parliamentary leader for the Centre Party. She was appointed
Norwegian Minister of Local Government and Regional Development on 21 September 2007, a post she held until 20 October 2009 when she swapped departments and became
Minister of Transport and Communications. She continued in that role until 18 June 2012. On 1 November 2013, she became the
County Governor of Rogaland. She retired in 2019 after having originally stated she was retiring in November 2018.
References
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1948 births
Norwegian Christians
Living people
Government ministers of Norway
Members of the Storting
Women members of the Storting
Centre Party (Norway) politicians
Ministers of Transport and Communications of Norway
Ministers of Local Government and Modernisation of Norway
21st-century Norwegian politicians
21st-century Norwegian women politicians
20th-century Norwegian politicians
20th-century Norwegian women politicians
Women government ministers of Norway