Sven Edling

Sven Åke Edling (9 December 1908 – 23 August 2000) was a Swedish civil servant. He served as President of the Supreme Court of Sweden from 1973 to 1976.

Early life Edling was born on 9 December 1908 in , Stockholm, Sweden, the son of the district court judge (häradshövding) and his wife Elsa (née Lundberg). He passed studentexamen in Kristianstad in 1927 and received a Candidate of Law degree from Lund University in 1931.

Career Edling carried out court service in Gärd and Albo Hundred's judicial districts (Gärds och Albo häraders domsaga) in Kristianstad County from 1931 to 1934 and became an extra legal clerk (fiskal) in 1935. He served as an assessor in the Svea Court of Appeal in Stockholm in 1943 (temporary officer in 1941), and as director (byråchef) for law matters in the Ministry of Justice in 1946 (acting in 1945). Edling became hovrättsråd at the Court of Appeal for Southern Norrland in Sundsvall in 1947 and served as a state secretary at the Ministry of Justice in 1949. He became a Justice of the Supreme Court of Sweden in 1953.

Edling also served as a secretary in the Reparations for War Damages Investigation (krigsskadeutredningen) with several investigations from 1939 to 1941, in the Second Law Committee from 1941 to 1942, and as legal assistant to the Chief of the Army from 1947 to 1953.

Awards and decorations

50x50px H. M. The King's Medal, 12th size gold (silver-gilt) medal worn around the neck on the Order of the Seraphim ribbon (1979)