Background
She was born in Oslo as the daughter of physician Sverre Strand (1906–1992) and housewife Liv Alnæs (1912–2005).
politician member of the Parliament of Norway
She was born in Oslo as the daughter of physician Sverre Strand (1906–1992) and housewife Liv Alnæs (1912–2005).
She enrolled as a student in 1957, and graduated with the candidate.mag.
Degree in 1962 from the University of Oslo. From 1963 to 1977 she worked as a high school teacher in Steinkjer. She chaired the local party chapter from 1973 to 1978.
She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Nord-Trøndelag in 1977, and was re-elected on three occasions.
During her last term, from 1989 to 1993, she was the President of the Odelsting. From 1989 to 1993 she was also the vice president of the Council of Europe.
Foreign a number of years, they entertained groups in the agritourism business. In 1991 she was appointed as the new County Governor of Nord-Trøndelag.
She was the first woman in Norway to hold the County Governor office.
She took office when leaving Parliament, and retired in 2008. Her replacement was acting County Governor Oddbjørn Nordset. Gjørv suffered from cancer for twenty years, and died in March 2009 at the Saint Olavs Hospital.
On the local level she was a member of the executive committee of Inderøy municipal council from 1975 to 1979. She was a member of several Standing Committees during her sixteen years in Parliament. She was a member of the now-defunct Statens Naturvernråd from 1973 to 1990, was a member of the board of Concerts Norway from 1974 to 1977, and chaired the board from 1993 to 1998.
In 1994 she became a member of the National Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics and a member of the board of the Norwegian Cancer Society.
From 1999 to 2005 she was a member of the Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Museum of Natural History and Archaeology.
