Kristín Halldórsdóttir

Kristín Halldórsdóttir (20 October 1939 – 14 July 2016) was an Icelandic Women's List politician, journalist and schoolteacher who served two separate terms in the Althing from 1983 to her resignation in 1989 and again between 1995 and 1999. She taught at Digranesskóli in Kópavogur for two winters between 1964 and 1966 and she worked was a journalist at Tíminn and editor of the weekly newspaper Vikuna from 1974 to 1979. Halldórsdóttir was the first vice-president of the Lower House of Althing from 1986 to 1987 and was a substitute member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for Women's List between 1987 and 1990.

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Kristín.
Kristín Halldórsdóttir
Member of the Althing
In office
23 April 1983 – 1989
ConstituencyReykjanes
In office
8 April 1995 – 8 May 1999
Personal details
Born(1939-10-20)20 October 1939
Varmahlíð, Reykjadalur, Iceland
Died14 July 2016(2016-07-14) (aged 76)
Reykjavik, Iceland
Political partyWomen's List
Left-Green Movement
SpouseJónas Kristjánsson
Children4
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