She chaired Vest-Agder's county chapter of the Conservative Party from 1998 to 2003, and was a member of the central party committee during the same period. She was a board member of the local branches of the Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority from 1985 to 1990 and the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities from 1987 to 1999. From 1998 to 2000 she sat on the committee that delivered Norwegian Official Report 2000: 22. She was a board member of the Southern Norway Regional Health Authority from 2006 to 2007, and from 2007 in the Southern and Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority.
