Adrienne Iwamoto Suarez received a B.A. in English and Comparative Literature, cum laude, from Columbia College, Columbia University in 1997; an M.A. in English Education from Teachers College, Columbia University in 2001; and a J.D., summa cum laude, from the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii in 2005. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Suarez was a New York City public schoolteacher for four years. While in law school, Ms. Suarez won numerous awards for her legal scholarship, including a CALI Excellence for the Future Award for Second Year Seminar, an honorable mention in the American Planning Association's Smith-Babcock-Williams Student Writing Competition, second place in the American Bar Association's Probate and Real Property Section's Jacques T. Schlenger Writing Competition, the Hawaii State Bar Association Real Property and Financial Services Section Award for Best Law Student Paper, and the Hawaii State Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Award for Best Overall Law Student Paper.

After law school, she clerked for the Honorable Richard R. Clifton of the United States Court of the Appeals for the Ninth Circuit then went into private practice in the Trusts and Estates Department of a prominent Honolulu law firm. She is currently a legislative researcher for Hawaii State Representative Della Au Belatti. Ms. Suarez is also a freelance writer and undergraduate English and writing instructor. Her legal publications include "Avoiding the Next Hokulia: The Debate over Hawaii’s Agricultural Subdivisions,” 27 U. Haw. L. Rev. 441 (2005), reprinted in excerpted form in Ka Nu Hou (April 2005); “Privatization and the Providing of Public Facilities through Private Means,” 21 J. L. & Pol. 477 (2005) (co-authored with David L. Callies); and “Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions . . . on Free Speech? First Amendment Rights in Common-Interest Communities,” 40 Real Prop., Prob. & Tr. L. J. 739 (2006), reprinted in excerpted form in GPSolo Magazine, The Best Articles Published by the ABA (March 2007). She currently lives in Hawaii.