Western Asset Mortgage Capital Corporation announced that Lisa Quateman had been elected as an independent member of its Board of Directors on June 19, 2020, increasing the total number of independent directors to five and the total number of directors to seven. Ms. Quateman is a senior partner of the national law firm Polsinelli with extensive experience working on real estate matters, advising issuers and financial institutions in complex financing transactions. She joined Polsinelli in July 2011 as the founding Office Managing Partner for the firm's Los Angeles office and served in that role for nearly five years. Previously, she was the managing partner of the firm of Quateman LLP, which she founded in 1989. Ms. Quateman serves on the boards of directors of ITR Concession Company and affiliates (public-private partnership operator of the Indiana Toll Road), Scherzer International Corporation, National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Pacific Southwest Chapter and Heidi Duckler Dance. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate and the City of Hope Board of Governors. Her prior board experience includes serving as Vice Chair and General Counsel for the UCLA Alumni Association and as a Mayoral appointee to the City of Los Angeles Industrial Development Authority. Ms. Quateman is an NACD Board Leadership Fellow, and earned her bachelor of arts and juris doctor degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles.