(Justitiekansler), Rudholm became the Editor of the Swedish Law Journal (Svensk Juristtidning). Rudholm kept up the editorial work during the whole of his period as Chancellor of Justice in 1962–1967, and until he became President of Svea Court of Appeal, a position he then held for almost seventeen years, until 1983. On reaching retirement age, Rudholm was honoured with the prestigious office of Marshal of the Realm, the principal administrator of the Swedish Royal Court. He gave up the office of Marshal of the Realm in 1986. Swedish Academy Rudholm was still appeal court president when elected to the Swedish Academy on 10 February 1977 and admitted on 20 December 1977. He succeeded late justice Sture Petrén to Chair No.1 - a seat that during the twentieth century by custom had come to be occupied by lawyers. Rudholm has been on the boards of a number of companies, associations and institutions, some of which lie within the Swedish Academy’s sphere of interest. He was e.g. chairman of the Swedish General Art Association in 1974–1983 and a member of the Swedish Language Council in 1977–1986. His quarter of a century in the Academy offers many examples of his clear style as a free writer, predominantly in public speaking, while his inaugural address on his predecessor justice Sture Petrén witnesses to his care for the language. Bibliography Handbok för nämndemän : rättegången i häradsrätt och rådhusrätt (1949) Sture Petrén : inträdestal i Svenska akademien (1977) References Per Nordenvall, Kungliga Serafimerorden 1748–1998. Stockholm : Kungl. Maj:ts orden, 1998. Sten Rudholm, Sture Petrén: inträdestal i Svenska akademien. Stockholm : Norstedt, 1977. Sten Rudholm and Nils Stjernquist, Jörgen Westerståhl som författningsutredare, in Vetenskapen om politik. Festskrift till professor emeritus Jörgen Westerståhl (Jörgen Westerståhl as the constitutional commission chairman, in The science of politics. Festschrift to Emeritus Professor Jörgen Westerståhl), eds. Bo Rothstein and Bo Särlvik, Gothenburg : University of Gothenburg, 1996. Jan Arnald, Stol Nr.1 : Sten Rudholm, official biography by the Swedish Academy, 2005. 1918 births 2008 deaths People from Karlstad Swedish jurists Members of the Swedish Academy Marshals of the Realm