Benedikte "Bendó" Sara Nanna Thorsteinsson Abelsdóttir (née Kristiansen; born 12 February 1950)[1] is a Greenlandic politician (Siumut).
Benedikte Thorsteinsson is the tenth of fifteen children of the sheep breeder Abraham Terkild Abel Kristiansen (1918-?)
Her father was chairman of the sheep breeders' association he founded and was also active as a local politician.
[citation needed] Thorsteinsson attended high school in Køge, Denmark,[2] which she graduated in 1970.
[5] Nevertheless, she was subsequently appointed Minister for Social Affairs and Labor in the Johansen II Cabinet.