[1] Immediately prior to her appointment to this commission, she served as a Registrar, in the Planning and Development Division of the Judiciary of Uganda.
The following year, she was awarded a Diploma in Legal Practice by the Law Development Centre, in Kampala, Uganda's capital city.
[2] After her admission to the Uganda Bar in 1999, she took up employment with the law firm of Ruyondo & Company Advocates, working there for one year, as an Associate Attorney.
[2] In 2009, she left the bench and went to work as the personal assistant to then Deputy Chief Justice Laetitia Mukasa Kikonyogo, for a period of one year.
[2] On 7 February 2018, president Yoweri Museveni appointed Olive Kazaarwe to the High Court of Uganda, pending parliamentary approval.