She was appointed as City Commissioner of the Boroughs from 1990 to 1991, when she reverted to being a council member.
[2] Ahead of the convention she had submitted party-critical resolutions together with Ellen Wibe, Roy Wetterstad, Oscar Hillgaar and Stephen Bråthen.
[2] She continued the rest of the term as an independent,[1] but was a founding member of the new political organization Free Democrats.
[1] Christiansen later joined the Conservative Party, which she represented as City Commissioner of Healthcare from 2000 to 2002.
Between her parliamentary spell and her second period as City Commissioner, she had a civic job as information director in TV3.