Merethe Gudmundseth Storødegård (born 1961) is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 politician for the Labour Party

Norwegian Labour Party

The Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is the senior partner in the current Norwegian government as part of the Red-Green Coalition, and its leader, Jens Stoltenberg, is the current Prime Minister of Norway....

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From 1 January 2004 she was the director of the Trøndelag

Trøndelag

Trøndelag is the name of a geographical region in the central part of Norway, consisting of the two counties Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag. The region is, together with Møre og Romsdal, part of a larger...

 chapter of the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise

Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise

The Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise is an employers' organisation in Norway with more than 16,000 members.It was founded in 1989 as a merger of the Federation of Norwegian Industries, the Norwegian Employers' Confederation and the Federation of Norwegian Craftsmen..The president is Kristin...

, succeeding Otto Gregussen

Otto Gregussen

Otto Gregussen is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was political advisor to the Minister of Fisheries 1992-1994, state secretary to the Minister of Fisheries 1994-1996, and Minister of Fisheries 2000-2001 in the first cabinet Stoltenberg.-References:...

. Between 1997 and 2003 she was the county mayor of Nord-Trøndelag County Municipality

Nord-Trøndelag county municipality

Nord-Trøndelag County Municipality is the regional governing administration of Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. The main responsibilities of the county municipality includes the running of 12 upper secondary schools, with 7,000 pupils...

. She was first elected to Stjørdal

Stjørdal

is a municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Stjørdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Stjørdal, also called Stjørdalshalsen...

 municipal council at the age of eighteen, and in 2003

Norwegian local elections, 2003

Country-wide local elections for seats in municipality and county councils were held throughout Norway on September 15, 2003. For most places this meant that two elections, the municipal elections and the county elections ran concurrently. In addition, several municipalities held direct mayoral...

 she ran for mayor, but was not elected.

She is a daughter of Roger Gudmundseth

Roger Gudmundseth

Roger Gudmundseth is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.He was born in Ålesund as a son of shipmaster Randulv Gudmundseth and housewife Jenny Rasmussen . He worked as a fisher from 1954 to 1957, before attending commerce school and insurance school...

. She lives in Stjørdal.