Jøran André Smedal Kallmyr (born 15 April 1978) is a Norwegian politician and jurist for the
Progress Party who served as Minister of Justice from 2019 to 2020.
Early life
Kallmyr was born on 15 April 1978 in
Fræna Municipality in
Møre og Romsdal
Møre og Romsdal (; ) is a Counties of Norway, county in the northernmost part of Western Norway, Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the Molde (town), town of M ...
.
Career
He served as
State Secretary in the
Ministry of Justice and Public Security from 2014 to 2016.
Kallmyr served as acting Oslo city commissioner for welfare and social services from 2008 to 2009. From 2009 to 2011, he served as Oslo city commissioner for transport and the environment.
[ In the wake of the 2011 local elections, he was succeeded by Ola Elvestuen.
Kallmyr is a lawyer and partner for the Ræder AS law firm from 2012 to 2014, 2016 to 2019 and again since 2020. There he specialises in property rights, administrative law and regulatory issues.
]
Minister of Justice
Kallmyr was appointed Minister of Justice and Immigration in Solberg's Cabinet on 29 March 2019 following Tor Mikkel Wara's resignation.[
Two months into his tenure, controversy arose surrounding his family's ]au pair
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, who had been forced to leave the country after breaching the Immigration Act. Though questioned about whether he himself broke the rules, Kallmyr expressed he didn't think so, but would be apologetic if he had.Mediterranean Sea
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. He added that this could help increase flow of refugees, more than what private citizens could have the capability to assist. The Socialist Left Party criticised his statement and called it "alarming".
In October, Kallmyr stated that the government would be looking into changing the frameworks for Norwegian men to bring foreign women home, many cases of which revealed that many suffered from abuse and exploitation. Kallmyr expressed that the government was concretely considering a "quarantine" waiting period.Monica Mæland
Monica Mæland (born 6 February 1968) is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party who served as Minister of Justice from 2020 to 2021. Previously she served as Minister Local Government from 2018 to 2020, and Minister of Trade and Ind ...
as justice minister in January 2020 after his party had decided to withdraw from the cabinet over a dispute regarding a Muslim woman with a sick child being brought home from Syria. Kallmyr himself supported his party's decision to withdraw from the cabinet.[NRK
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The NRK broadcasts three national TV channels and thirteen nat ...]
Kallmyr is married to Torunn Smedal Kallmyr, with whom he has children.