| Sylvia Brustad | |
| Office: | Governor of Hedmark |
| Term Start: | 1 January 2010 |
| Term End: | 16 October 2013 |
| Term Label: | Acting |
| Predecessor: | Tormod W. Karlstrøm (acting) |
| Successor: | Sigbjørn Johnsen |
| Office1: | Minister of Fisheries |
| Term Start1: | 2 October 2009 |
| Term End1: | 20 October 2009 |
| Term Label1: | Acting |
| Primeminister1: | Jens Stoltenberg |
| Predecessor1: | Helga Pedersen |
| Successor1: | Lisbeth Berg-Hansen |
| Office2: | Minister of Trade and Industry |
| Term Start2: | 20 June 2008 |
| Term End2: | 20 October 2009 |
| Primeminister2: | Jens Stoltenberg |
| Predecessor2: | Dag Terje Andersen |
| Successor2: | Trond Giske |
| Office3: | Minister of Health and Care Services |
| Term Start3: | 17 October 2005 |
| Term End3: | 20 June 2008 |
| Primeminister3: | Jens Stoltenberg |
| Predecessor3: | Ansgar Gabrielsen |
| Successor3: | Bjarne Håkon Hansen |
| Office4: | Minister of Local Government |
| Term Start4: | 17 March 2000 |
| Term End4: | 19 October 2001 |
| Primeminister4: | Jens Stoltenberg |
| Predecessor4: | Odd Roger Enoksen |
| Successor4: | Erna Solberg |
| Office5: | Minister of Children and Families |
| Term Start5: | 25 October 1996 |
| Term End5: | 17 October 1997 |
| Primeminister5: | Thorbjørn Jagland |
| Predecessor5: | Grete Berget |
| Successor5: | Valgerd Svarstad Haugland |
| Office6: | Minister of Labour and Administration |
| Term Start6: | 25 October 1996 |
| Term End6: | 15 November 1996 |
| Term Label6: | Acting |
| Primeminister6: | Thorbjørn Jagland |
| Predecessor6: | Nils Olav Totland |
| Successor6: | Terje Rød-Larsen |
| Office7: | Member of the Storting |
| Term Start7: | 1 October 1989 |
| Term End7: | 30 September 2009 |
| Deputy7: | Grethe G. Fossum Erling Brandsnes Ivar Skulstad |
| Constituency7: | Hedmark |
| Birth Date: | 19 December 1966 |
| Birth Place: | Elverum, Hedmark, Norway |
| Party: | Labour |
Sylvia Brustad (born 19 December 1966, in Elverum) is a former Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
Brustad graduated from high school in 1983, and attended the media courses at the folk high school in Ringsaker until 1985. She then worked as a journalist, among other publications she worked for LO-aktuelt, the news publication of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions.
Brustad was elected to a county council seat in Hedmark following the local elections of 1987. In the 1989 election, she was elected to a seat in the Norwegian Parliament and left county politics.
In cabinet Jagland which held office between 1996 and 1997, she was Minister for Children and Family Affairs. She was later Minister for Local Government and Regional Development in the first cabinet Stoltenberg between 2000 and 2001. Following the electoral victory of the 2005 elections, Brustad became Minister of Health and Care Services in the second cabinet Stoltenberg. She was moved to the post of Minister of Trade and Industry in June 2008 and left the government in October 2009.
Brustad became known for her role as Minister for Child and Family Affairs in 1996 when a law restricting the opening hours of shops on Sundays, holidays and after nine in the evening was passed. Only stores smaller than 100 square metres were allowed to remain open, such shops were somewhat disparagingly nicknamed "Brustadbuer" ("Brustad shacks"), until the law was quietly repealed in 2003.[1] Brustad herself claimed that she had not personally advocated the law, but that she was required to follow through on a decision within the Labour Party.[2]