---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000016918-23-000011"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "STZ"
cik: "0000016918"
company_name: "CONSTELLATION BRANDS, INC."
filed_at: "2023-01-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T08:17:23.415155+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Constellation Brands director James Locke to retire after 40 years on board

## Summary
- Lead Independent Director James Locke will not stand for re-election at July 2023 annual meeting; retirement effective at meeting.
- Locke served 40 years on board, nearly 50 years association; Lead Independent Director since 2008, Governance Chair since 1998.
- Retirement not due to any disagreement; successors for board roles to be identified after annual meeting.
- Locke was instrumental in key acquisitions including Modelo, Corona, and Robert Mondavi Winery.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000016918-23-000011
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: STZ
- cik: 0000016918
- company_name: CONSTELLATION BRANDS, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-01-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16918/000001691823000011/0000016918-23-000011-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16918/000001691823000011/stz-20230125.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000016918-23-000011
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000016918-23-000011.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000016918-23-000011.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  James A. Locke III retired as Lead Independent Director at CONSTELLATION BRANDS, INC..
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Lead Independent Director
  source text: On January 25, 2023, James A. Locke III notified Constellation Brands, Inc. (“Constellation” or the “Company”), that he will retire from the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) at the end of his current term and consequently will not stand for re-election to the Board at the Company’s 2023 annual meeting of stockholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16918/000001691823000011/0000016918-23-000011-index.htm

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