Toril Marie Øie | |
Office: | Chief Justice of Norway |
Term Start: | 1 March 2016 |
Predecessor: | Tore Schei |
Birth Date: | 17 July 1960 |
Birth Place: | Oslo, Norway |
Toril Marie Øie (born 17 July 1960) is Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway.
She was born in Oslo,[1] and graduated from the University of Oslo as a Candidate of Law in 1986.[2] 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 University of Oslo. She was a Supreme Court Justice from 2004 to 2016.[1]