Torill Selsvold Nyborg (born 23 February 1952) is a

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nurse, missionary and politician for the

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. She was born in

Kvam Kvam is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The municipality is located along the Hardangerfjorden in the traditional district of Hardanger. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Norheimsund. Other larger sett ...

as a daughter of electrician Johannes Selsvold (1914–1997) and housewife Dorthea Selsvold (1922–1997). She took primary school in her native

Ålvik Ålvik is a village in the municipality of Kvam in Vestland county, Norway. The village "urban area" consists of the settlements of Ytre Ålvik og Indre Ålvik (outer and inner Ålvik) and Vikadal. The settlements are located on either side of ...

and secondary school (lower and upper) in

Øystese Øystese is a village in the municipality of Kvam in Vestland county, Norway. It is located along the Hardangerfjord about east of the municipal centre of Norheimsund. Norwegian County Road 7 passes through the village. The village had a po ...

, graduating in 1970. She then attended a

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nurse college for three years. She worked mainly as a nurse, first in Oslo from 1973 to 1977 before being a

missionary A missionary is a member of a Religious denomination, religious group which is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.Tho ...

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from 1977 to 1982. She then moved to Fjell to become a nurse in 1983. She was a deputy member of Fjell

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from 1987 to 1991, and elected member from 1991 to 1995. She served as deputy county mayor from 2001 to 2003, and county mayor of

Hordaland Hordaland () was a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark, and Rogaland counties. Hordaland was the third largest county, after Akershus and Oslo, by population. The county government was the Hordaland County Municipal ...

from

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to 2011. She chaired the countywide party chapter 2002–2006 and sat on the national party board. She also served as a deputy representative to the

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from

during the terms 1997–2001, 2001–2005 and 2005–2009. In October 2005 she briefly covered for

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who was an outgoing member of

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. In total Nyborg met during 27 days of parliamentary session. Torill Selsvold Nyborg has been an eager spokesperson for a new regional level in the

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, and in 2005 she chaired Vestlandsrådet, an advisory political council for the four main counties in the region. She then accepted a visit from "pride minister" Øyvind Heitmann from

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, who is also promoting wider independence for

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. She is also working to establish new railway lines in Hordaland, i.e. between Bergen and Norheimsund. Outside politics she was employed as a lecturer in nursing at the Diakonissehjemmet University College in 1994. She has been a board member of

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, chaired the supervisory council of

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and been a supervisory council member of

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. She is married to the media scholar

Geir Magnus Nyborg Geir Magnus Nyborg (February 15, 1951 in Askøy – February 13, 2018 in Bergen) was a Norwegian media scholar and theologian. Nyborg headed the Christian organization Familie & Medier from 2001 to 2009, and after that headed the training an ...

.Dalehaug Norheim, Astrid. 2013. Gult, blått og grønt rundt bordet. ''Dagen'' (September 8).
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