---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000014693-24-000038"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BF-A"
cik: "0000014693"
company_name: "BROWN FORMAN CORP"
filed_at: "2024-05-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T00:17:52.794450+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Brown-Forman EVP Chief People, Places & Communications Officer to retire Aug 9

## Summary
- Kirsten M. Hawley, EVP Chief People, Places and Communications Officer, retires effective August 9, 2024.
- Hawley informed the Company of her retirement on April 30, 2024.
- No successor has been named in this filing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000014693-24-000038
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BF-A
- cik: 0000014693
- company_name: BROWN FORMAN CORP
- filed_at: 2024-05-02T23:59:59+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/14693/000001469324000038/0000014693-24-000038-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/14693/000001469324000038/bfb-20240430.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000014693-24-000038.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Kirsten M. Hawley retired as Executive Vice President, Chief People, Places, and Communications Officer at BROWN FORMAN CORP.
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Executive Vice President, Chief People, Places, and Communications Officer
  source text: On April 30, 2024, Kirsten M. Hawley, Executive Vice President, Chief People, Places, and Communications Officer of Brown-Forman Corporation (the “Company”), informed the Company of her intention to retire effective August 9, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/14693/000001469324000038/0000014693-24-000038-index.htm

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