{"schema_version":"secwatch.filing_event.v1","accession":"0000014693-23-000034","form_type":"8-K","ticker":"BF-A","cik":"0000014693","company_name":"BROWN FORMAN CORP","filed_at":"2023-05-31T23:59:59+00:00","discovered_at":"2026-05-14T18:03:38.959772+00:00","generated_at":"2026-06-14T10:21:13.108235+00:00","sec_items":["5.02"],"event_type":"leadership","sentiment":"neutral","materiality_score":0.2,"calibrated_materiality_score":0.2,"confidence":"high","headline":"Lead Independent Director John D. Cook will not seek re-election at 2023 Annual Meeting after 15 years on board","bullets":["John D. Cook notified Brown-Forman on May 24, 2023 of his decision not to stand for re-election.","He served nearly 15 years as a director and over 10 years as the company's first Lead Independent Director.","Cook will remain a director until the 2023 Annual Meeting; no successor has been announced.","The departure is a planned non-re-election after long tenure, not a resignation over disagreement."],"urls":{"canonical":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000014693-23-000034","json":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000014693-23-000034.json","markdown":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000014693-23-000034.md","text":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000014693-23-000034.txt","edgar_index":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/14693/000001469323000034/0000014693-23-000034-index.htm","edgar_primary_document":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/14693/000001469323000034/bfb-20230524.htm"},"model":{"generated_by":"deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2","generated_at":"2026-06-14T10:21:13.108235+00:00"},"review":{"review_status":"machine_generated","human_reviewed":false,"corrected":false,"correction_note":null,"correction_timestamp":null,"superseded_by":null,"related_filings":[]},"source_grounded_claims":[{"claim_id":"35877bfb0e","claim":"John D. Cook departed as Lead Independent Director and member of the Board of Directors at BROWN FORMAN CORP.","evidence_excerpt":"John D. Cook, the Lead Independent Director and a member of the Board of Directors (“Board”) of Brown-Forman Corporation (the “Company”), notified the Company of his decision not to stand for re-election to the Board at the Company’s 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”)","evidence_source":"SEC 8-K Item 5.02","evidence_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/14693/000001469323000034/0000014693-23-000034-index.htm","confidence":0.95,"family_label":"Executive change","details":[{"label":"Action","value":"not stand for re-election"},{"label":"Role","value":"Lead Independent Director and member of the Board of Directors"}],"fact_type":"executive_change"}],"license":"Source filings: public domain (SEC EDGAR). Summaries (headline + bullets): CC-BY-4.0; attribute https://secwatch.observer"}