Toril Marie Øie (born 17 July 1960) is Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway. She was born in

Oslo Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of 1,064,235 in 2022 ...

, and graduated from the

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as a

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in 1986. She worked in the Ministry of Justice and the Police from 1986 to 2006, except for the period 1988 to 1990 when she was an acting district stipendiary magistrate in the Strømmen District Court. From 1994 she was also a part-time university lector at

. She was a Supreme Court Justice from 2004 to 2016.

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