Bård Tønder (born 1 May 1948) is a Norwegian judge.
He was born in
Sjøvegan
Sjøvegan is the administrative centre of Salangen Municipality in Troms county, Norway. The village is located at the end of the Sagfjorden, a branch of the Salangen (fjord), Salangen fjord. The river Salangselva empties into the fjord at Sjøv ...
, and graduated as
cand.jur. in 1975. He worked in the
Ministry of Justice and the Police from 1976 to 1978, as an attorney in
Trondenes
Trondenes is a neighborhood and parish in the town of Harstad in Harstad Municipality in Troms county, Norway. The area is located on the northern end of the town, on a peninsula in the Vågsfjorden. The village is notable for the Trondenes F ...
from 1971 to 1981, in the
Office of the Attorney General of Norway from 1985 and as a
Supreme Court
In most legal jurisdictions, a supreme court, also known as a court of last resort, apex court, high (or final) court of appeal, and court of final appeal, is the highest court within the hierarchy of courts. Broadly speaking, the decisions of ...
Justice from 2006
to his retirement at age 70.
References
1948 births
Living people
People from Salangen
Supreme Court of Norway justices
Norwegian civil servants
20th-century Norwegian lawyers
21st-century Norwegian lawyers
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