Sten Rudholm
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Sten Rudholm | |
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| Born | Sten John Gustaf Rudholm 27 April 1918 Royal Order of the Seraphim |
| Member of the Swedish Academy (Seat No. 1) | |
| In office 20 December 1977 – 29 November 2008 | |
| Preceded by | Sture Petrén |
| Succeeded by | Lotta Lotass |
Sten John Gustaf Rudholm (27 April 1918 – 29 November 2008) was a
Biography
Early life
Sten Rudholm was born in 1918 at Karlstad. He graduated in law in 1942 in Stockholm. His career in the judiciary was largely associated with the Svea Court of Appeal in Stockholm. After training as a judicial registrar and qualifying service as a public prosecutor, he was appointed public prosecutor in 1945 – a natural career to judgeship.
Court service
Having co-authored Handbok för nämndemän (Handbook for jurors) in 1949, Rudholm became an appeal court judge in 1954 and a justice of appeal in 1961. He crowned his judicial career in 1967 with the position of President of the Svea Court of Appeal – by tradition and protocol the highest ranking position of the Swedish judiciary. Serving as President of the Court of Appeals, Rudholm was last non-royal Swedish citizen to be awarded the Order of the Seraphim.
Legal service
Rudholm's career as a judge came to overlap with duties as a public official in various appointments. In 1955–1961, Rudholm was the head of the legal section at the
After his time as head of the legal section at the Department of Justice and in parallel with his new appointment as Chancellor of Justice (
Swedish Academy
Rudholm was still appeal court president when elected to the Swedish Academy on 10 February 1977 and admitted on 20 December 1977. He succeeded late justice
Bibliography
- Handbok för nämndemän : rättegången i häradsrätt och rådhusrätt (1949)
- Sture Petrén : inträdestal i Svenska akademien (1977)
References
- (in Swedish) Per Nordenvall, Kungliga Serafimerorden 1748–1998. Stockholm : Kungl. Maj:ts orden, 1998. ISBN 978-91-630-6744-0
- (in Swedish) Sten Rudholm, Sture Petrén: inträdestal i Svenska akademien. Stockholm : Norstedt, 1977. ISBN 978-91-1-773441-1
- SELIBR 1410122.
- (in Swedish) Sten Rudholm and Nils Stjernquist, Jörgen Westerståhl som författningsutredare, in Vetenskapen om politik. Festskrift till professor emeritus Jörgen Westerståhl (Jörgen Westerståhl as the constitutional commission chairman, in The science of politics. Festschrift to Emeritus Professor Jörgen Westerståhl), eds. Bo Rothstein and Bo Särlvik, Gothenburg : University of Gothenburg, 1996. ISBN 978-91-630-4073-3
- (in Swedish) Jan Arnald, Stol Nr.1 : Sten Rudholm, official biography by the Swedish Academy, 2005.
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