Ole Bjørn Støle (9 April 1950 – 19 November 2010) was a Norwegian judge.

He was born in Bergen,[1] and graduated as cand.jur. from the University of Bergen in 1976.[citation needed] He worked in the Ministry of Justice and the Police from 1976, was a deputy judge in Kristiansand City Court from 1978, and worked in the Office of the Attorney General of Norway from 1980. He was then a private lawyer from 1985 to 2002, except for the years 1990–1993 when he was a presiding judge in Gulating. He was a Supreme Court Justice from 2002. He was later appointed an ad litem judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and was thus granted a leave of absence in Norway. He died in November 2010.[1]

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  1. ^ a b Henriksen, Petter, ed. (2007). "Ole Bjørn Støle". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 25 November 2010.