Lightbridge Corporation announced that the Honorable Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Director at The Rock Creek Group and Lieutenant Governor of Maryland from 1995 to 2003, has been named to the company's Board of Directors effective immediately. Ms. Townsend, a former Lightbridge Senior Advisor, succeeds Jack D. Ladd, a distinguished attorney specializing in energy and Dean of the School of Business and Engineering at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, who stepped down after seven years to serve as a Lightbridge Senior Advisor.