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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000004904-25-000127"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AEP"
cik: "0000004904"
company_name: "AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO INC"
filed_at: "2025-07-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T03:47:16.894707+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# AEP board chair resignation: Tucker steps down; CEO Fehrman named Chair effective Aug 1, 2025

## Summary
- Sara Martinez Tucker resigned as Board Chair for personal reasons, effective July 31, 2025.
- Tucker remains on the Board and will serve as independent Lead Director starting August 1, 2025.
- William J. Fehrman, CEO and President of AEP, elected as Board Chair effective August 1, 2025.
- Fehrman has served on the Board since August 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000004904-25-000127
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AEP
- cik: 0000004904
- company_name: AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO INC
- filed_at: 2025-07-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/4904/000000490425000127/0000004904-25-000127-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/4904/000000490425000127/aep-20250722.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000004904-25-000127.txt

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