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About Ruth Ryste
- Ruth Anlaug Ryste (born 24 July 1932) was a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the Labour Party. She was born in Bamble.
- She finished commerce school in 1950, and from 1950 to 1970 she worked with welfare in Bamble municipality.
- She was a deputy member of Bamble municipal council from 1967 to 1971.
- From 1970 to 1973 she was a secretary in the trade union Norwegian Civil Service Union, and also supervisory board member of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions from 1969 to 1975.
- She was a personal secretary to the Minister of Administration and Consumer Affairs from 1 January 1973 to 1 January 1974, and from 1975 to 1976 she was a secretary in Statstjenestemannskartellet.From 1976 to 1979 she served as the Minister of Social Affairs in Nordli's Cabinet.
- She was a member of the Labour Party central board from 1975 to 1981.
- In 1979 she left the Minister position to become director of the Norwegian Refugee Council.
- From 1982 to 1987 she headed Statens flyktningssekretariat, and from 1988 to 1995 she was an adviser in the Ministry of Local Government.
- She was a board member of Nationaltheatret from 1975 to 1982 and a member of Norway's Contact Committee for Immigrants and the Authorities from 1984 to 1987.
- Many years after retiring she was elected to Porsgrunn city council for the term 2007 to 2011.
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