She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Sør-Trøndelag in 1969, and was re-elected on four occasions.
On the local level she was a member of Kongsberg city council from 1955 to 1959 and of Trondheim city council from 1959 to 1963. Outside of politics she worked as a school teacher in Fana, Kongsberg, Trondheim and Geneva.