Torkel Gregow

Per Johan Torkel Gregow (born 15 November 1935) is a retired Swedish lawyer. Between 1981 and 1998 he served as a Justice of the Supreme Court. In 1998, he was appointed President of the Supreme Court, a role he kept until 2002.

Torkel graduated in law at Uppsala University in 1958 and did service as a law clerk at District Court between 1959 and 1962. He then served as a public prosecutor from 1963 to 1968 when he became a deputy judge. In 1975 he became a judge in a court of appeal. Torkel was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court in 1981 and later made its president in 1998, a post he kept until 2002. After retirements from active legal practice he became editor of the Swedish code of laws in 2003 until he retired in 2010. Provided by Wikipedia