Trygve Leivestad (29 January 1907 – 14 December 1994) was a Norwegian judge. He was born in

Tromsø Tromsø (, , ; se, Romsa ; fkv, Tromssa; sv, Tromsö) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tromsø. Tromsø lies in Northern Norway. The municipality is the ...

as a son of lawyer Ludvig Bernhard Leivestad (1878–1955) and Valborg Dorothea, née Skouge (1880–1957). His brother was theologian Ragnar Leivestad (1916–2002). He took his

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in 1925 and graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1931. During 1932, he studied old English law at

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under a Norwegian Oxford Scholarship. From 1934, Leivestad was a deputy judge in

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. He was a secretary in the Ministry of Justice from 1937,

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at the

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from 1939, assistant secretary in the Ministry of Justice from 1942 and deputy under-secretary of state from 1945. In 1947, Leivestad was appointed presiding judge in

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. He was named

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in 1958, serving until 1977 when he retired. He was a board member of

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from 1963, and chaired the board 1968–1971. He was also a member of Tromsøysund

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, representing the

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. He was affiliated with

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, the Christian Peace Association and the Anti-Slavery Society, and was also an anti-tobacco activist. He died in December 1994.Death announcement, ''Vårt Land'' 15 December 1994

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