Sólveig Pétursdóttir

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Sólveig.

Sólveig Guðrún Pétursdóttir (born 11 March 1952) is an Icelandic politician and a former speaker of the Althing, the Icelandic parliament, serving from 2005 to 2007.^[1] She was a parliament member from 1991, for the Reykjavík Constituency (1991–2003), and the Reykjavik Constituency South (2003–2007). She is a member of the Independence Party. Sólveig was Iceland's Minister of Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs 1999–2003. She is a lawyer who graduated from the University of Iceland (1977).

Sólveig Pétursdóttir