secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     BROWN FORMAN CORP (BF-A)
CIK:        0000014693
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-05-31T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000014693-23-000034
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.20
Item codes: 5.02
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Lead Independent Director John D. Cook will not seek re-election at 2023 Annual Meeting after 15 years on board
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- 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.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/14693/000001469323000034/0000014693-23-000034-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/14693/000001469323000034/bfb-20230524.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000014693-23-000034

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