Career
He took the candidate.jur. degree in 1974. He was a judge in Oslo City Court before being hired as a presiding judge in Borgarting Court of Appeal in 1990. From 1997 he was a court administrator.
Among his important court cases was the murder of Benjamin Hermansen.
In October 2010, while visiting the United States, he died in a car accident east of Spicer, Minnesota.