She was given a four-year contract to continue in her role as chairwoman of the country's biggest distributor of national lottery funding, reports the Guardian newspaper.
Campbell was chosen ahead of Alistair Gray, head of the Scottish Institute of Sport, and Steve Cram, chairman of the English Institute but better known as the former world record holder for the 1500m and mile, to fill the £36,705-per-year post on a permanent basis.
Campbell was originally recruited in September 2003 by the government to give the organisation a shake-up.
Within three months she had effectively sacked both Richard Callicott and Michele Verroken as the chief executive and head of anti-doping respectively, just two among more than half-a-dozen key personnel who have left UK Sport since Campbell took over.
Campbell shares the frustration of the sports minister Richard Caborn that British sport is too bureaucratic and needs modernising.
