Jorunn Hageler
Norwegian politician

Jorunn Synnøve Hageler, née Innvik, (8 October 1946 – 31 January 2023) was a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party.
Hageler was born in Sortland as a daughter of industry worker Kåre Innvik and cleaner Signe Nikolaisen. She attended school in Glomfjord from 1953 to 1962, when she went to Eidsvoll to study at upper secondary school, where she graduated in 1965. Hageler studied at Hamar Teacher College from 1966 to 1968, and studied Norwegian and Religion history in Oslo from 1969 to 1970. She started working as a teacher in Vadsø Lower Secondary school from 1971 to 1976, and then moved to Steinkjer Municipality where she worked from 1976 to 2000. She had taken extra part-time education in pedagogy in Trondheim (1977–78) and Christianity (1978).
She was elected to the municipal council of Steinkjer Municipality in 1979, and re-elected in 1983, sitting until 1987. The last two years, she was on the executive board. From 1980 to 1983, she also sat as a deputy in the county council in Nord-Trøndelag, for the Committee for Culture. During the 1980s, she led the Gro Group and Kristofer Book Café, and was on the board of the Socialist Left Party in Steinkjer.
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