---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000005513-22-000132"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "UNM"
cik: "0000005513"
company_name: "Unum Group"
filed_at: "2022-06-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-24T22:11:55.617762+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Unum's Chief Accounting Officer Cherie Pashley resigns; CFO Zabel to serve as interim CAO

## Summary
- Cherie A. Pashley resigns as SVP, Chief Accounting Officer, effective July 8, 2022.
- EVP/CFO Steven A. Zabel will serve as interim principal accounting officer until successor named.
- Company begins search for a permanent Chief Accounting Officer.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000005513-22-000132
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: UNM
- cik: 0000005513
- company_name: Unum Group
- filed_at: 2022-06-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/5513/000000551322000132/0000005513-22-000132-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/5513/000000551322000132/unm-20220629.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000005513-22-000132
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000005513-22-000132.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000005513-22-000132.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Steven A. Zabel was appointed as principal accounting officer at Unum Group.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: principal accounting officer
  source text: following which Steven A. Zabel, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, will serve on an interim basis as the Company’s principal accounting officer until a successor has been named.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/5513/000000551322000132/0000005513-22-000132-index.htm
- Executive change
  Cherie A. Pashley resigned as Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer at Unum Group.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On June 29, 2022, Cherie A. Pashley, Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer of Unum Group (the “Company”), notified the Company of her resignation.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/5513/000000551322000132/0000005513-22-000132-index.htm

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