Wenche Frogn Sellæg

Wenche Frogn Sellæg (born 12 August 1937) is a Norwegian handball player, physician and politician for the Conservative Party. She was Minister of Environmental Affairs 1981–1983, Minister of Justice 1985–1986, Minister of Social Affairs 1989–1990 and a member of the Parliament of Norway from 1985 to 1993.

Education, medical career and sport She was born in Oslo as a daughter of Henry Frogn (1906–1982) and Bergljot née Osmundsen (1900–1988). After finishing her secondary education in 1957, she graduated with the cand.med. degree from the University of Oslo in 1963. She started her career as a physician at Molde Hospital before serving as a district physician in remote Værøy Municipality and Røst Municipality in 1965. In 1966, she moved to Ullevål Hospital and in 1968 to Drammen Hospital. She received a diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the University of London in 1971, and from the same year she was a specialist in internal medicine. Finally, she was a doctor for a Christian mission in Bhutan in 1972 before settling in Namdal in 1973. Her clubs were Namsos IL, Molde HK and Frigg Oslo. She held various board positions in Frigg, and from 1967 to 1971 she was a board member of the Norwegian Confederation of Sports. From 1967 to 1969 she sat on the European Council's Committee on Women and Sport. Later reprising her board membership in the Confederation of Sports from 1987 to 1989, she also sat on another European Council committee, this time the Committee of Experts on the Organisation of Health Care for the Chronically Ill from 1996 to 1998. They resided in Overhalla Municipality.

Within her party, Sellæg chaired Namsos Conservative Party from 1974 to 1975, sat in the Conservative Party's central board and executive committee from 1982 to 1990, led its political platform committee from 1987 to 1989, served as the Conservative Party's deputy leader from 1988 to 1990, and lastly chaired its electoral committee from 1992 to 1994.

In businesses and organizations, she was a board member of Den norske Creditbank from 1983 to 1987, supervisory council member of the Norwegian Bible Society from 1987 to 1993, supervisory council and corporate council member of Vinmonopolet from 1994 to 1996, and deputy board member of Sparebanken Midt-Norge from 1995 to 2005.