Before winning election to the National Assembly for Wales in 1999 she was a teacher and Head of Vocational Education in a Welsh Medium School in her home county of Conwy.

She resigned on 22 March 2001 for health reasons and was succeeded by fellow Liberal Democrat Eleanor Burnham as Assembly Member for North Wales.

In November 2007 she was elected President of the party, defeating Bob Barton and John Last.

[2] She was created a life peer on 18 September 2013 taking the title Baroness Humphreys.

of Llanrwst in the County of Conwy, and made a point of taking the oath in her native Welsh instead of the traditional English.