Career
She served as mayor of Gjesdal from 2007 to 2013. She was elected to the Parliament of Norway in the Norwegian parliamentary election, 2013 where she was nominated in the first spot on the Christian Democratic Party"s ballot for Rogaland. Educated as a nurse, she worked as department manager at Stavanger University Hospital before she became mayor.
She was elected to the municipal council of Gjesdal in 2003.