Victoria Suarez-Palomo
Associate
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vsuarez-palomo@olsongrimsley.com
303-535-9151
Victoria earned her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was awarded the Joseph A. Chubb Competition Prize for excellence in legal draftsmanship. At Yale, Victoria served as a Student Director for the Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic, working on significant cases before the Supreme Court, including Santos-Zacaria v. Garland. Victoria also served as a Coker Fellow for Constitutional Law and as the Executive Editor of the Yale Journal on Law & Technology.
Before law school, Victoria had a career in public policy. At the height of the Great Recession, she served in the Obama Administration at the U.S. Treasury Department, focusing on financial reform, health care, and community development programs. Most recently, Victoria was a member of the Biden-Harris Presidential Transition tasked with assessing the country’s federal banking and securities regulators. Victoria has also designed consumer protection policies for new financial products in start-up environments. Victoria was named “30 Under 30” for Law and Policy by Forbes Magazine and one of the “100 Most Influential Hispanics” by Latino Leaders Magazine.
Victoria will clerk for Judge Harris L. Hartz of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in August 2025.
Victoria earned her B.A. in History and International Studies from Emory University in 2005. Victoria was a member of the Barkley Forum, Emory’s competitive policy debate team. She also volunteered weekly with Atlanta’s Urban Debate League.
Victoria serves on the Board of Directors of the Community Economic Defense Project, a Denver-based non-profit dedicated to preventing eviction and confronting economic injustice.