Nancy “Nana” Lampton is a leading figure in the nuclear energy industry, both in the United States and internationally. Ms. Lampton, chair and CEO of American Life and Accident Insurance Company of Kentucky and of its parent company, Hardscuffle, Inc., first joined Lightbridge Corporation in 1996.
Ms. Lampton is a longtime director of Constellation Energy Group (CEG), a U.S. nuclear utility that in 2009 partnered with Électricité de France, the world’s largest energy utility, to own and operate reactors at the Calvert Cliffs, Nine Mile Point, and R.E. Ginna power stations in the United States. She is also a member of CEG’s Committee on Nuclear Power, which has been working with Areva on the deployment of an evolutionary pressurized reactor at Calvert Cliffs. Ms. Lampton played a role in securing for Calvert Cliffs the first-ever 20-year operating license extensions granted by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. She serves on the Advisory Board of CanAlaska Uranium Ltd. and is director and vice-chair of the Duff & Phelps Utility and Corporate Bond Trust, the DNP Select Income Fund, and the DTF Tax-Free Income Fund. She is past director of The Committee of 200, a group of leading businesswomen. Ms. Lampton is one of the most prominent citizens of Louisville, Kentucky, where she has chaired the Downtown Development Corporation three separate times since 1979; she currently serves on the Executive Committee. Ms. Lampton is also the owner and breeder of thoroughbred racehorses.
Ms. Lampton received a bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College and a master’s degree from the University of Virginia, both in English literature, and participated in the Small Company Management Program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Business. Her publications include The Moon with the Sun in Her Eye, a book of poetry (Fleur de Lis Press, 2007), and Snowy Owl Gathers in Her Trove, a book of art and poetry (Chapman-Friedman Publisher, 2009).
