Auður Auðuns

Auður Auðuns (18 February 1911 – 19 October 1999) was an Icelandic lawyer and politician from the Independence Party.

Auður graduated from the prestigious Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík in 1929 and got a law degree from the University of Iceland in 1935.

She then spent a year studying Icelandic rhetoric and speech patterns in her hometown before she married high court attorney Hermann Jónsson, with whom she had four children Jón (1939), Einar (1942), Margrét (1949), and Árni (1954).

She worked for twenty years as a lawyer for the Single Mothers Assistance Committee in Reykjavík 1940–60, was a leading member of the Icelandic Women's Rights Association and acted as an advisor to the government on a number of topics related to family law, children and women's issues.

From 19 November 1959 to 5 October 1960 she was Co-Mayor with future Prime Minister Geir Hallgrímsson and acted as his mentor.