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About Jens Christian Mellbye
- Jens Christian Mellbye (4 February 1914 – 31 March 1993) was a Norwegian judge.
- He served as a Supreme Court Justice from 1968 to 1992. He was born in Oslo as a son of barrister Gunnar Lange Mellbye (1884–1958) and Aagot Maartmann-Moe (1888–1980).
- He was a brother of Fredrik Mellbye, grandson of Christian Mellbye and first cousin once removed of Johan E.
- Mellbye.
- He finished his secondary education at Ris in 1931 and attended the Norwegian Military Academy from 1931 to 1932.
- He gradually advanced to Captain.
- In 1938 he took the cand.jur.
- degree.
- He was a deputy judge in Skien District Court before being hired as junior solicitor in his father's law firm.
- He was a barrister with access to working with Supreme Court cases from 1946.
- During the legal purge in Norway after World War II, Mellbye served as a public prosecutor from 1945 to 1946 and prosecutor in the Supreme Court from 1946 to 1951.He was a defender in Oslo City Court from 1951 to 1961, and in the Supreme Court from 1961 to 1968.
- He was the chairman of the Norwegian Bar Association from 1965 to 1968.
- He also chaired the Intelligence Oversight Committee for many years.
- From 1968 to 1992 he served as a Supreme Court Justice.Mellbye was decorated as a Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St.
- Olav in 1978.
- He had three children with his wife Ellen Ring Hartmann, whom he married in 1939.
- He died in March 1993 in Oslo.
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