Inger Lise Gjørv

Inger Lise Gjørv (26 May 1938 – 28 March 2009) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.

Career She was born in Oslo as the daughter of physician Sverre Strand (1906–1992) and housewife Liv Alnæs (1912–2005). She enrolled as a student in 1957, and graduated with the cand.mag. degree in 1962 from the University of Oslo. She also met her husband, Ole Andreas Gjørv, there, and they moved to Sandvollan Municipality. From 1963 to 1977 she worked as a high school teacher in Steinkjer. On the local level she was a member of the executive committee of the municipal council of Inderøy Municipality from 1975 to 1979. She chaired the local party chapter from 1973 to 1978. Gjørv suffered from cancer for twenty years, and died in March 2009 at the St. Olavs Hospital.