Liv Gjølstad (born 9 January 1945) is a Norwegian judge. She was born in

Tønsberg Tønsberg (), historically Tunsberg, is a List of towns and cities in Norway, city in Tønsberg Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. It is located about south-southwest of the capital city of Oslo on the western coast of the Oslofjord near ...

. She graduated with the

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degree from the

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in 1969. She worked under the

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from 1971, as a presiding judge in

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from 1983 and as

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Justice from 1988 to 2015. She has also been a board member of the

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from 1990 to 1992, deputy board member of the

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from 1993 to 1996 and council member of the

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. She is married to bureaucrat

Thorbjørn Gjølstad Thorbjørn Gjølstad (29 September 1942 – 26 May 2015) was a Norwegian jurist and civil servant. He graduated with the cand.jur. degree from the University of Oslo in 1968, and served as a deputy judge at Eidsvoll District Court. He was hired i ...

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