Anne Owers

Dame Anne Elizabeth Owers, DBE (née Spark; born 23 June 1947) was Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons.

[3] She was chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission, and prior to this, she directed JUSTICE, the UK-based human rights and law reform organisation.

[4] Owers was educated at Washington Grammar School, County Durham, and studied history at Girton College, Cambridge.

While taking time out to bring up her three children, Owers continued to undertake research and voluntary advice and race relations work.

[5] She joined the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants in 1981 as a research and development officer and was appointed its general secretary four years later.