---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000014693-25-000088"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BF-A"
cik: "0000014693"
company_name: "BROWN FORMAN CORP"
filed_at: "2025-08-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T10:12:09.257641+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Brown-Forman CFO Leanne Cunningham to retire on May 1, 2026; search for successor started

## Summary
- Cunningham informed company of retirement effective May 1, 2026 after 30 years of service.
- She joined in 1995 as Corporate Accountant and was named EVP, CFO in July 2021.
- Company has initiated formal search for successor; expects to announce by end of calendar 2025.
- CEO Lawson Whiting praised her leadership and people-first approach; no interim CFO named.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000014693-25-000088
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BF-A
- cik: 0000014693
- company_name: BROWN FORMAN CORP
- filed_at: 2025-08-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/14693/000001469325000088/0000014693-25-000088-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/14693/000001469325000088/bfb-20250821.htm

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