Karin Maria Bruzelius

Karin Maria Bruzelius
Bruzelius lecturing on human rights in 2009
21st and 32nd President of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights
In office 1978–1984
Preceded by	Kari Skjønsberg
Succeeded by	Sigrun Hoel
In office 2018–2020
Preceded by	Marit Nybakk
Succeeded by	Anne Hege Grung
Chairman of the Petroleum Price Board
In office 1987–2004
Secretary-General of the Ministry of Transport and Communications
In office 1989–1997
Succeeded by	Per Sanderud
Supreme Court Justice
In office 1997–2011
Personal details
Born	(1941-02-19) 19 February 1941 (age 83)
Nationality	Sweden, Norway
Parent	Anders Bruzelius (father)

Karin Maria Bruzelius (born 19 February 1941) is a Swedish-born Norwegian supreme court justice and former president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights. In 1989, she became the first woman to be appointed Permanent Secretary of a government ministry, heading the Ministry of Transport and Communications until 1997. She was appointed supreme court justice on the Supreme Court of Norway in 1997, retiring in 2011.

She has previously also been a director-general in the Ministry of Justice and a corporate lawyer. She was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague from 2004 to 2010, and chaired the Petroleum Price Board from 1987 to 2004. She served as president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights from 1978 to 1984, and from 2018 to 2020. She has been affiliated with the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law at the University of Oslo Faculty of Law since 2011.