Anette Trettebergstuen

Norwegian politician

Anette Trettebergstuen (born 25 May 1981) is a Norwegian politician representing the Labour Party, who served as Minister of Culture and Equality in Støre's Cabinet from 2021 to 2023. She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Hedmark in 2005. She is the only openly lesbian politician in the Norwegian Parliament.

Trettebergstuen was born in Hamar. On the local level she was a member of Hamar municipal council from 1999 to 2005. She was the deputy leader of Europeisk Ungdom, the Norwegian youth wing of the European Movement, from 2001 to 2002. In the Storting, Trettebergstuen was a member of the Enlarged Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence from 2005 to 2009. She has been re elected since. She was member of the Standing Committee on Labour and Social Affairs from 2009 to 2015, and the Standing Committee on Family and Cultural Affairs from 2015 to 2021. While being part of the Støre's Cabinet between 2021 and 2023, Even Eriksen deputised in her place. She has also served as the leader of the Labour Party's women's network since 2019, succeeding Anniken Huitfeldt. Following the 2021 election, she was mentioned as a favorite candidate to become minister of culture and equality. In February 2024, the National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime in Norway announced that they had launched an investigation into Trettebergstuen's conduct which had led to her resignation as minister of culture and equality. Trettebergstuen herself stated that she would comply with the investigation. In April, they announced that the investigation would be dropped, concluding that she had not committed any punishable offences. In May 2024, she announced that she wouldn't seek re election at the 2025 election.

She was appointed minister of culture and equality on 14 October 2021 in Støre's Cabinet.