Bjørn Stordrange (born 13 January 1956 in
Flekkefjord) is a Norwegian jurist and politician for the
Conservative Party. His father
Kolbjørn Stordrange was a member of parliament before him, representing the same party.
Bjørn Stordrange served as a deputy representative to the
Norwegian Parliament from
Vest-Agder during the terms 1981–1985, 1985–1989 and 1989–1993. From 1981 to 1983 he served as a regular representative, covering for
Tore Austad
Tore Austad (born 8 April 1935) is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. Born in Skedsmo, Akershus, he received a cand. philol. degree in 1962, and worked as a professor of Norwegian at the University of Chicago from 1964 to 1966. R ...
who was a member of the
first cabinet Willoch.
Outside politics Stordrange graduated as
cand.jur.
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in 1982. He served his military service at the elite Russian language program of the
Norwegian Armed Forces. At the
University of Oslo he was hired as researcher in 1983 and
associate professor
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Overview
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(''førsteamanuensis'') in 1986. He took the
doctorate degree in 1988, and was appointed district stipendiary magistrate (''sorenskriver'') in
Flekkefjord from 1988 to 1992. He was assistant professor (''professor II'') at the
University of Tromsø from 1989 to 1992, and at the
Norwegian School of Management from 1997. He has also been a practising lawyer.
From 1989 to 1990, during the Conservative
cabinet Syse, Stordrange was appointed
state secretary in the
Ministry of Justice and the Police
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. He is chairman of the board of
Oslo Sporveier since 1998.
References
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1956 births
Living people
Members of the Storting
Conservative Party (Norway) politicians
Vest-Agder politicians
Norwegian state secretaries
Academic staff of the University of Tromsø
Academic staff of the University of Oslo
Academic staff of BI Norwegian Business School
20th-century Norwegian judges
People from Flekkefjord
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