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Hanna Suchocka

Hanna Suchocka

Prime Minister of Poland from 1992 to 1993

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  • Hanna Stanisława Suchocka ( pronounced [ˈxanna suˈxɔt͡ska] ; born 3 April 1946) is a Polish politician and lawyer who served as Prime Minister of Poland from 8 July 1992 to 26 October 1993 during the presidency of Lech Wałęsa.
  • Suchocka currently serves as a professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and Chair of the Constitutional Law Department.
  • Early life Suchocka was born in Pleszew, Poland, in a Catholic family of chemists.
  • Suchocka went to law school and became a researcher at the University of Poznań (UAM), gaining a PhD in Constitutional Law.
  • She gained a habilitation at UAM in 2015.

Hanna Stanisława Suchocka (pronounced [ˈxanna suˈxɔt͡ska] ; born 3 April 1946) is a Polish politician and lawyer who served as Prime Minister of Poland from 8 July 1992 to 26 October 1993 during the presidency of Lech Wałęsa. She is the first woman to hold this post in Poland (preceding Ewa Kopacz and Beata Szydło who both held the post in the 2010s) and was the 14th woman to be appointed and serve as prime minister in the world.

Suchocka currently serves as a professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and Chair of the Constitutional Law Department. She is also a former First Vice-President and Honorary President of the Venice Commission.

Early life

Suchocka was born in Pleszew, Poland, in a Catholic family of chemists. Her grandfather was a university teacher and her grandmother Anna became a member of the first Polish parliament for Poznań after independence in 1918 when women got the right to vote. Suchocka went to law school and became a researcher at the University of Poznań (UAM), gaining a PhD in Constitutional Law. Later she worked as a reader in law at Lublin university and for most of her professional life at a facility of the Polish academy of sciences in Poznań until 2013. She gained a habilitation at UAM in 2015.

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