# Josh Leftwich
Vice President, Operations & Strategic Development, USA
## Career chronology
- **Current as of 2026-09-26; exact start date not supplied: Laramide Resources Ltd.** — Vice President, Operations & Strategic Development, USA. [Annual Report 2025 / Annual Information Form]() (Directors’ report / current executive roster)
- **Earlier career; exact dates not fully disclosed: Previous employers and professional roles as summarized in issuer disclosure** — Cameco radiation safety/licensing; UEC regulatory work; Mesteña/Alta Mesa start-up and permitting responsibilities. [Management Team]() (Management Team biography)
- **Earlier career; exact dates not disclosed: Cameco** — Director of Radiation Safety and Licensing; oversight of operational compliance, tribal relations and regulatory communications. [Annual Information Form 2025]() (PDF p. 70; executive biography)
- **Five years before joining Laramide in August 2024: Texas Aggregates & Concrete Association** — President and Chief Executive Officer. [Annual Information Form 2025]() (PDF p. 70; executive biography); [Management Team]() (Management Team biography)
- **Earlier career; dates not disclosed: Cameco Resources; Uranium Energy Corp.; Mestena Uranium** — Senior leadership roles. [Management Team]() (Management Team biography)
## Contributions and company outcomes
### Company-level project and delivery record [lam_josh_leftwich_company_record]
Most recent report through cutoff · issuer reported · low materiality
Laramide advanced Churchrock-Crownpoint permitting to public notice in June 2026; project permitting progress is an issuer-reported milestone, not production or a completed permit.
**Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The individual held the stated role during some or all of the reported period; available evidence does not isolate personal contribution.
**Relevance:** Provides the company outcome against which the executive’s delivery record should be assessed.
[Annual Report 2025 / Annual Information Form]() (directors’ report / operating update)
## Litigation and enforcement
### New Mexico AG petition challenges NuFuels license-renewal application [lam_josh_leftwich_legal_context]
2026-07 · documented · high materiality
Leftwich is a public-facing VP who spoke at a NuFuels community meeting on August 6, 2026. New Mexico filed a hearing request on NuFuels’ renewal and challenged the groundwater-restoration showing; the NRC assigned an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board. The NRC’s official calendar showed the contested oral argument rescheduled from September 8 to October 5, 2026; no subsequent Board ruling was located by the October 9 cutoff. A separate NRC mandatory hearing concerning the renewal was also scheduled in September. Navajo EPA reiterated opposition to the never-built project in September 2026. Local reporting documents Leftwich’s exchange with attendees and attributed statements, but this is community engagement/pending-process evidence, not misconduct or an adjudicated violation. His public-facing role overlaps the license process; the reviewed record does not show he authored any challenged submission or establish personal responsibility.
**Attribution:** Individual involvement documented. Marc Henderson is CEO and Josh Leftwich leads US operations during the application; their roles overlap the review but the record does not show they authored deficient submissions or bear personal responsibility.
**Relevance:** Groundwater permitting and community impacts are directly relevant to uranium development.
[Crownpoint Uranium Project – License Renewal Status]() (NRC license-renewal status page; accepted for technical review and application status); [Anti-uranium advocates wrest control of public hearing on proposed mine near Navajo Nation]() (Aug. 10 report, lines 34–66; direct account and attributed statements); [Attorney General Raúl Torrez Files Petition to Intervene in Crownpoint Licensing Matter to Protect New Mexico’s Groundwater]() (Aug. 6 release, lines 115–126; contentions summarized by petitioner); [NuFuels, Inc.; Establishment of Atomic Safety and Licensing Board]() (Federal Register, Aug. 6, 2026); [ASLBP 2026 Proceedings – NuFuels]() (official calendar; oral argument status as listed by cutoff); [NuFuels Crownpoint license renewal oral argument meeting notice]() (Official calendar; Oct. 5 rescheduled argument and linked memorandum accession); [Navajo EPA opposes Church Rock uranium project as New Mexico challenges license renewal]() (Sept. 17, 2026; Navajo EPA opposition and project/license status); [NuFuels, Inc.; Establishment of Atomic Safety and Licensing Board]() (Federal Register, 6 Aug. 2026; board establishment and September mandatory-hearing notice)
## Suitability for the current role
### Professional fit for Vice President, Operations & Strategic Development, USA [lam_josh_leftwich_role_fit]
Current role as of cutoff · analyst inference · medium materiality
Role fit is an analytical inference from the documented position and the listed experience. The current role aligns with the function stated in the title; demonstrated personal outcomes are not inferred from employer results.
**Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Analyst assessment based on the cited role and career record; it does not establish performance causation.
**Relevance:** Assesses documented capability against the current role and company stage.
[Annual Report 2025 / Annual Information Form]() (Current executive roster); [Management Team]() (Management Team biography)
## Evidence gaps
- No NRC Atomic Safety and Licensing Board post-argument ruling on intervention or the challenged license-renewal contentions was located by 2026-10-09; the official meeting calendar gave the October 5 schedule but not an outcome.