Lisbeth L. Petersen
| Lisbeth L. Petersen | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 18, 1939 Tórshavn, Faroe Islands |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
| Title | Leader of the Union Party |
| Term | 2001–2004 |
| Predecessor | Edmund Joensen |
| Successor | Kaj Leo Johannesen |
| Political party | Union Party |
Lisbeth Beate Lindenskov Petersen (born February 18, 1939) is a former Faroese politician in the Faroese Union Party. She was one of the first women to reach a top position in Faroese politics. Petersen served as mayor of the capital, Tórshavn, from 1992 to 1996 and was the first female mayor of Tórshavn. She was a member of the Faroese Parliament from 1990 to 2008, she was the first Faroese woman who was elected to the Danish Parliament, she was a member of the Danish Parliament from 2001 to 2005. From 2001 to 2004 she was parliamentary leader and head of her party.
Petersen was born in Tórshavn. She is the daughter of the editor Georg L. Samuelsen, the sister of the journalist Beate L. Samuelsen, the granddaughter of Prime Minister Andrass Samuelsen, and the niece of the lawyer Trygvi Samuelsen. She comes from an influential family that owned most of the newspaper Dimmalætting. She was the largest single shareholder when the family sold its shares in 2010. Her son Georg L. Petersen is the current editor-in-chief of Dimmalætting. Her grandfather and uncle were also leaders of the Union Party.
After completing high school in Tórshavn, Petersen passed the entrance exam in 1958 to study at Bagsværd Boarding School and High School in Denmark. Her father advised her against pursuing a career in journalism, and she started as a sales assistant in a dry good store. In 1959 she started studying at Copenhagen Business School, but then broke off her studies and returned to the Faroe Islands, where she married the engineer Jákup Petersen from Signabøur in 1960. Over the next ten years, she alternated between being a housewife and working part-time at law offices in Tórshavn while her husband was abroad. Petersen served as the project secretary for the National Museum of the Faroe Islands from 1980 to 1992, and as party secretary for the Union Party from 1982 to 1987.
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