Lorraine Lesley Lighton, née Goldstone, b 1956.

After qualifying in medicine at the University of Manchester in 1979, Lighton trained in public health medicine, as registrar in public health medicine to the North Western Regional Health Authority, gaining her MSc in 1987. Lighton was acting consultant in public health in Salford, Manchester and Glossop and consultant in communicable disease control to the West Pennine Health Authority in Oldham..