Ole Bjørn Støle (9 April 1950 – 19 November 2010) was a Norwegian judge. He was born in

Bergen Bergen (, ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, second-largest city in Norway after the capital Oslo. By May 20 ...

, and graduated as cand.jur. from the

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in 1976. He worked in the Ministry of Justice and the Police from 1976, was a deputy judge in Kristiansand City Court from 1978, and worked in the Office of the Attorney General of Norway from 1980. He was then a private lawyer from 1985 to 2002, except for the years 1990–1993 when he was a presiding judge in

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. He was a Supreme Court Justice from 2002. He was later appointed an

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judge at the

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, and was thus granted a leave of absence in Norway. He died in November 2010.

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