Gladstone Commercial Corp. announced that on October 10, 2012, the company's board of directors increased the number of directors from nine to ten in accordance with the company's Articles of Restatement and Bylaws, as amended, and elected Terry Earhart as a director to fill the resulting vacancy. Mr. Earhart was also appointed a member of each of the company's Compensation Committee and the company's Ethics, Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, effective immediately.

Mr. Earhart is an independent director within the meaning of NASDAQ Stock Market Marketplace Rule 5605(a)(2) and Section 10A of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Mr. Earhart founded and, since 2005, has served as Executive Vice President and a member of the board of directors of Strategic Global Services Network. From 1989 to 2011, Mr. Earhart was a professor of business information systems and management at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania, teaching courses in strategic management, finance and computers.