Hanna Stanisława Suchocka (pronounced [ˈxanna suˈxɔt͡ska] ⓘ; born 3 April 1946) is a Polish political figure, lawyer, professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and Chair of the Constitutional Law Department, former First Vice-President[1][2] and Honorary President of the Venice Commission.

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.

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.

When Solidarity supporters split up into several political parties, Suchocka joined the centre-liberal Democratic Union (DU) and was re-elected to parliament in 1991.

[11] Suchocka's candidacy stirred controversy amongst some of the activists who co-founded the Solidarity Electoral Action (AWS) and Centre Agreement (PC).

In August 1997, former Interior Minister Zbigniew Siemiątkowski accused Suchocka's government of allowing alleged surveillance of opposition political parties.

She was also a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences in the Vatican (appointed by Pope John Paul II on 19 January 1994).