Emilie Enger Mehl (born 8 August 1993) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. She served as minister of justice from 2021 to 2025 and member of parliament for Hedmark from 2017 to 2025.
Mehl was born in Lørenskog on 8 August 1993, a daughter of Eivind Mehl and Ellen Enger Müller. She holds a Master of laws (LL.M.) from the University of Oslo Faculty of Law.
Mehl was elected representative to the Storting for the period 2017–2021 for the Centre Party. She was member of the Standing Committee on Justice from 2017 to 2020, and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) from 2017 to 2021.
From 2020 to 2021 she was member of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and of the Enlarged Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. She was re-elected to the Storting for the period 2021–2025, while Margrethe Haarr deputised for her when she served in the Støre Cabinet from October 2021 to February 2025.
Following her party's withdrawal from government, Mehl joined the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs in addition to becoming the party's financial spokesperson.
She had sought re-election at the 2025 election, but ultimately lost her seat.
She was elected representative to the county council of Hedmark from 2015.
She was appointed minister of justice on 14 October 2021. At the time of her appointment, she became the country's youngest person to serve as minister of justice.
Mehl laid down flowers, for the victims of the Kongsberg attack. The attack happened the day before she was appointed, and she was accompanied by the prime minister.
In October 2021, she spoke about the issue of alleged abuse of power by police, during handling of drug cases.
In early November, she focused on the recent shootings in the capital: eight young men had been shot (by other civilians) over the span of ten weeks.
She rejected the Norwegian Correctional Service's proposal of reducing the amount of prisons from 32 to 13.
In May 2022, she appeared in front of the Standing Committee on Justice to answer about the controversy regarding Hans Sverre Sjøvold, chief of Police Security Service. He resigned the following month.
There was a shortage of blank passports in May [and for some time later], and that became a bottleneck for the authorities' issuing of passports. (Mehl had already warned in March 2022, of an upcoming period where many applicants for new passports—would have to wait for unreasonably long periods of time; Thales Group were responsible for the production of the passports).
The government made a proposal to change the court system.
Possible changes to the court system were being evaluated (as of May 2022).
Regarding the proposed changes, she said that she wished to listen to [opinions or] voices from the districts, rather than the strong opposition from legal experts - because the experts are mostly based in the capital city.
In August 2022, Mehl recognized that Russian vessels posed a potential risk to Norwegian interests.