Adrienne Ryan
Adrienne Margaret Ryan is a former Liberal councillor and mayor of Ku-ring-gai Council in Sydney, Australia.
Background
Ryan has an honours degree in politics and international relations from Reading University in the United Kingdom. She was a police officer in London for a period of time, being involved in the Brixton riots and Notting Hill race riots in the 1980s.She and her two daughters moved to Sydney in 1997 when her husband became the New South Wales Police Commissioner. In May 2005, Ryan moved to the Sydney suburb of Wahroonga after separating from her husband, relocating in 2017.
In the mid 2010s she divided her time between Sydney and London, studied law through the University of Law, Bloomsbury. In 2014, she was called to the bar at The Honourable Society of The Middle Temple. She was a Harmsworth Scholar of the Middle Temple.
Personal
Ryan was married to former Commissioner of the New South Wales Police Peter Ryan. They divorced in 2011 after an extended separation.Ryan has two daughters but had multiple miscarriages. In 2000, she published a book called A Silent Love about the impact of miscarriage and stillbirth.