---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000004904-25-000031"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AEP"
cik: "0000004904"
company_name: "AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO INC"
filed_at: "2025-02-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T12:38:57.466653+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Director Donna A. James not standing for re-election at AEP's 2025 Annual Meeting

## Summary
- Donna A. James notified AEP Board on Feb 18, 2025 she will not stand for re-election at the 2025 Annual Meeting.
- Departure is for personal reasons and not due to any disagreement with company operations, policies, or practices.
- Ms. James has served on the Board; her term will end at the annual meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000004904-25-000031
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AEP
- cik: 0000004904
- company_name: AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO INC
- filed_at: 2025-02-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/4904/000000490425000031/0000004904-25-000031-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/4904/000000490425000031/aep-20250218.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000004904-25-000031
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000004904-25-000031.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000004904-25-000031.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Donna A. James departed as Director at AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO INC.
  - Action: not stand for re-election
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 18, 2025, Donna A. James, a member of the Board of Directors ("Board") of American Electric Power Company, Inc. ("Company"), notified the Board that she would not stand for re-election to the Board at the Company's 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/4904/000000490425000031/0000004904-25-000031-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.