Jan Martin Flod

{{Short description|Norwegian judge}}

Jan Martin Flod (1947 – 5 October 2010) was a Norwegian judge.

He took the cand.jur. degree in 1974. He was a judge in Oslo City Court before being hired as a presiding judge in Borgarting Court of Appeal in 1990. From 1997 he was a court administrator.{{cite encyclopedia|year=2007 |title=Jan Martin Flod |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |editor=Henriksen, Petter |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo |url=http://www.snl.no/Jan_Martin_Flod |language=Norwegian |accessdate=3 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012062437/http://snl.no/Jan_Martin_Flod |archivedate=12 October 2012 }} Among his important court cases was the murder of Benjamin Hermansen.{{cite news|url=http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/1.507958|title=Kvisler og Jahr funnet skyldige|agency=Norwegian News Agency|date=28 November 2002|language=Norwegian|accessdate=4 December 2010}}

He was married and resided at Bærums Verk. In October 2010, while visiting the United States, he died in a car accident east of Spicer, Minnesota.{{cite news|url=http://www.budstikka.no/nyheter/omkom-i-usa-ulykke-1.5695903|title=Omkom i USA-ulykke|last=Hagen|first=Per Erik|date=7 October 2010|work=Budstikka|language=Norwegian|accessdate=3 December 2010}}