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Danish Female Statsamtmand og Stiftamtmand and Directors of State Administrations (Translated as County Governor or State County Prefects they functioned as State representatives and chief administrative officers of the county authority and the state representative in the administration of the diocese) until 2007 and from then on Director of the Regional State Administration until 2013. The role as Stiftamtmand continued but the director is in charge of several dioceses. Their new titles in Danish areStatsforvaltningsdirektør, Stiftsamtmand. In 2013 the 5 State Administrations merged into one. The Director of the State Administration is Head of a number of the Dioceses (Stiftsamtmand) and the Deputy Director of the rest

1978-81 Amtmand Bodil Norup Panild, Vestsjællands Amt
1981-2001 Statsamtmand of Vestsjælland Statsamt
She lived (1934-2003).

1997-2007 Statsamtmand Bente Flindt Sørensen, København og Frederiksberg
1997-2010 Stiftamtmand for the Diocese of København (Copenhagen)
2006-2010 Director of the State Administration for the Capital Region. (Statsforvaltningsdirektør for Hovedstadsregionen)
2007-10 Stiftamtmand for the Diocese of Helsingør
In 2006 she began the transition from the Statsamt of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg and parts of Sealand to new State Administration (Statsforvaltningen Hovedstaden)

1999-2007 Statsamtmand Ninna Würtzen, the County of Fyn
1999-2013 Stiftsamtmand of the Diocese of Fyn
2006-13 Director of the Regional State Administration for the Region of Southern Denmark (Statsforvaltningen Syddanmark)
2007-13 Stiftamtmand of the Diocese of Haderslev
She headed the merger of a number of County Administrations into the State Administration of Southern Denmark

2001-07 Statsamtmand Vibeke Larsen, County of Vestsjælland (Denmark)
2005-07 Acting Statsamtmand of the County of Storstrøm
2005-07 Acting Stiftamtmand of the Diocese of Lolland-Falster
2006-10 Director of the State Administration for the Region of Sealand (Statsforvaltningen Sjælland)
2007-10 Stiftsamtmand of the Diocese of Roskilde
High Commissioner of the Danish External Territory the Faero Islands 1995-2001, and before that she was Assistant Secretary in a Local Government in Denmark. 2005 she was appointed to handle the transfer from the various Statsamts in Sealand to new State Administration of Sealand (Statsforvaltning Sjælland). (b. 1944-).

2007-10 Deputy Director of the State Administration of the Capital Region Helle Haxgart
2010-13 Director of the State Administration of the Region of Seland
2010- Stiftsamtmand of the Diocese of Copenhagen
2013- Stiftsamtmand of Fyn, Haderslev, Lolland-Falster and Viborg
From 2013 the regional State Administratons were merged into one central administration with her as Director and Stiftsamtmand of all the Dioceses in Denmark, a responsibility she has delegated to her deputy director and other employees for a number of Dioceses; they also have the title of Stiftsamtmand.

Last updates 12.12.15