Trygve Leivestad

Trygve Leivestad (29 January 1907 – 14 December 1994) was a Norwegian judge.

He was born in Tromsø as a son of lawyer Ludvig Bernhard Leivestad (1878–1955) and Valborg Dorothea, née Skouge (1880–1957).

He was a secretary in the Ministry of Justice from 1937, research fellow at the University of Oslo from 1939, assistant secretary in the Ministry of Justice from 1942 and deputy under-secretary of state from 1945.

In 1947, Leivestad was appointed presiding judge in Hålogaland Court of Appeal.

He was affiliated with Moral Re-Armament, the Christian Peace Association and the Anti-Slavery Society, and was also an anti-tobacco activist.