Elsa Skjerven Explained

Office:Minister of Family and Consumer Affairs
Term Start:12 October 1965
Term End:17 March 1971
Primeminister:Per Borten
Predecessor:Aase Bjerkholt
Successor:Inger Louise Valle
Office2:Deputy Member of the Norwegian Parliament
Term Start2:1 October 1965
Term End2:30 September 1977
Constituency2:Sør-Trøndelag
Birth Name:Elsa Rigmor Skjerven
Birth Date:11 December 1919
Birth Place:Oslo, Norway
Death Place:Bærum, Akershus, Norway
Party:Christian Democratic
Nationality:Norwegian

Elsa Rigmor Skjerven (11 December 1919  - 29 October 2005) was a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party.

She was born in Oslo.

She was never elected to the Norwegian Parliament, but served in the position of deputy representative from Sør-Trøndelag during the terms 1965 - 1969, 1969 - 1973 and 1973 - 1977.

In 1965 Skjerven was appointed Minister of Family and Consumer Affairs in the centre-right cabinet Borten. She held the position until the Borten cabinet fell in 1971.

Skjerven was a member of Trondheim city council from 1959 to 1983, as well as a member of Sør-Trøndelag county council in 1979 - 1982.