Ms. Walker-Lightfoot earned her law degree, with a concentration in securities law, from the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America located in Washington, D.C.  She simultaneously earned an international law certificate.  Ms. Walker-Lightfoot also holds an MBA from the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland at College Park and a B.A., with a minor in French, from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.  She is also a certified Maryland Court Mediator and a member of the Maryland bar.  Ms. Walker-Lightfoot was also selected to SuperLawyers Rising Stars, Maryland 2013.

Ms. Walker-Lightfoot is notably the only former regulator who was uniquely qualified to detect Bernard Madoff's multi-billion dollar fraud years prior to him turning himself in to the authorities. She possesses the requisite skills and training to handle your compliance and corporate business needs.

She is a veteran employee of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Reserve Board and the American Stock Exchange/FINRA, where she gained over 15 years of experience in the areas of corporate governance and regulatory compliance, as well as securities and banking law.