Kjersti Graver

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Template:Short description Kjersti Graver (8 October 1945 – 14 February 2009) was a Norwegian jurist.

Personal life

She was born in Oslo[1] as the oldest child of Gerd and Odd Graver. She was a granddaughter of Torjus Graver[2] and niece of Petter Graver.

She was married to Supreme Court Justice Lars Oftedal Broch, grandson of Lars Oftedal.[1] They resided at Jar.[3]

Career

She took her law degree in 1970. After serving as a deputy judge and working in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs and Administration,[4] she was hired as a head of department in the Norwegian Consumer Council in 1979.[1] From 1984 to 1987 she worked for the Dutch Consumer Research Institute.[4]

She served as the Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman from 1987 to 1995.[1] During this period she was behind a prohibition of the skateboard in Norway, before it was lifted in 1989.[5] In 1995 she was appointed as a presiding judge in the Borgarting Court of Appeal.[1]

She was also a board member of the National Institute for Consumer Research,[4] Amnesty International Norway and a member of the Norwegian Parliamentary Intelligence Oversight Committee. She died in February 2009.[6]

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