Background
He was born in Levanger and graduated with the candidate.jur.
He was born in Levanger and graduated with the candidate.jur.
Degree in 1985. After three years as a consultant and adviser in the Ministry of Justice and the Police from 1986 to 1989, he served as a deputy judge in Nord-Troms District Court for one year and then a presiding judge in the same court from 1990 to 1993. He was then hired in the law firm Vogt & Company (later merged to form Vogt & Wiig) in 1993. He was a partner there from 1995 to 2012.
Since 2000 as a barrister with eligibility to work with Supreme Court cases.
He was then appointed as a Supreme Court Justice in March 2012.