Elise Sem

She was a daughter of district stipendiary magistrate Gabriel Egidius Johan Henrik Sem (1824–1900) and Emma Nathalie Christensen (1843–1933).

She was however hired as a junior solicitor by attorney Thorstein Diesen in 1902, and from 1903 to 1904 she served as a deputy judge in Kristiania Probate Court.

A law proposal was sent to the Parliament of Norway from the Norwegian Bar Association, and when parts of it passed, it was largely because Elise Sem was seen as qualified for being an attorney.

[3] Sem was also a deputy board member of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights and secretary of the anti-white slave trade organization Nasjonalforeningen til bekjæmpelse af den hvide slavehandel.

[1] She was a co-founder of the gymnastics club Kvinnelige Studenters GF (now a part of Oslo-Studentenes IK) in 1896, and was a board member of the Norwegian Association of University Sport.