10 Facts About Lin Homer

Lin Homer attended University College London, where she obtained an LLB degree.

Lin Homer then left to join Suffolk County Council as chief executive in 1998.

In 2005, Homer was criticised by the Election Commissioner for failings in her role as returning officer during a postal vote-rigging scandal involving Labour candidates the previous year, described by the Commissioner as one that "would disgrace a banana republic", and involving hundreds of votes failing to be counted.

Lin Homer defended her role to the Election Commission, saying she had been in "strategic, not operational control", and had confined herself to "motivational management and fire fighting".

Lin Homer resigned from her post shortly afterwards, joining the civil service as the Director-General heading the Immigration and Nationality Directorate of the Home Office, in August 2005.

The Home Office was re-organised in 2008, with the formation of the Border and Immigration Agency, later renamed the UK Border Agency, of which Lin Homer became the first chief executive.

In 2010 it was announced that Lin Homer would replace Robert Devereux as Permanent Secretary of the Department for Transport.

In December 2011 it was announced that Lin Homer would succeed Lesley Strathie as Chief Executive of HM Revenue and Customs.

On 11 January 2016, Lin Homer announced she would retire from her post as chief executive of HMRC in April of that year.

Lin Homer was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 2008 Birthday Honours, and Dame Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 2016 New Year Honours.