Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the first woman lieutenant governor of Maryland, is a legal and financial expert with an accomplished history of public service. She is a senior Vice-President at Rock Creek, an investment group founded by a former World Bank treasurer. Ms. Townsend joined Lightbridge Corporation's Strategic Advisory Council in 2010.
As lieutenant governor, Ms. Townsend administered a multibillion-dollar budget for the state of Maryland and oversaw major cabinet departments, among other responsibilities. Prior to her election, she served as deputy assistant attorney general in the Clinton administration's Department of Justice, in which role she spearheaded various ground-breaking law enforcement initiatives. Ms. Townsend is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Maryland. She has been a visiting fellow at the Kennedy School of Government and was appointed the Paul Nitze Senior Fellow at St. Mary's College and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow by the Council of Independent Colleges. Ms. Townsend chairs the Institute of Human Virology and serves as a director on several boards, including those of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, the Robert Kennedy Memorial, the Center for American Progress, and the Center for International Policy. The eldest child of the late U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy, Ms. Townsend founded the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award in the mid-1980s.
Ms. Townsend graduated from Harvard University with honors and received her law degree from the University of New Mexico. She is a member of the bar in Maryland, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, and is also a certified broker-dealer. Ms. Townsend is editor of two volumes and author of Failing America's Faithful.
