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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000022606-25-000020"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0000022606"
company_name: "COMMONWEALTH EDISON Co"
filed_at: "2025-06-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T03:45:05.333239+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# ComEd SVP Government Affairs Binswanger to depart Jan 2026; Washington named successor

## Summary
- Lewis Binswanger to depart ComEd effective Jan 1, 2026, transitioning to Special Advisor to CEO from Sep 1, 2025.
- Melissa Washington, currently SVP Customer Operations, will become SVP Government, Regulatory & External Affairs on Sep 1, 2025.
- Binswanger receives full compensation until departure; thereafter benefits under Exelon severance plan for non-cause termination.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000022606-25-000020
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0000022606
- company_name: COMMONWEALTH EDISON Co
- filed_at: 2025-06-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/22606/000002260625000020/0000022606-25-000020-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/22606/000002260625000020/exc-20250612.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000022606-25-000020
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000022606-25-000020.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000022606-25-000020.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Melissa Washington was appointed as Senior Vice President, Government, Regulatory, and External Affairs at COMMONWEALTH EDISON Co.
  - Action: assume
  - Role: Senior Vice President, Government, Regulatory, and External Affairs
  source text: Effective September 1, 2025, Melissa Washington, currently ComEd’s Senior Vice President, Customer Operations and Strategic Initiatives, will assume the role of Senior Vice President, Government, Regulatory, and External Affairs.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/22606/000002260625000020/0000022606-25-000020-index.htm
- Executive change
  Lewis Binswanger changed role as Special Advisor to ComEd CEO at COMMONWEALTH EDISON Co.
  - Action: assume
  - Role: Special Advisor to ComEd CEO
  source text: Mr. Binswanger will continue to serve as Senior Vice President, Government, Regulatory, and External Affairs until September 1, 2025, at which point he will assume the role of Special Advisor to ComEd CEO.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/22606/000002260625000020/0000022606-25-000020-index.htm
- Executive change
  Lewis Binswanger departed as Senior Vice President, Government, Regulatory, and External Affairs at COMMONWEALTH EDISON Co.
  - Action: depart
  - Role: Senior Vice President, Government, Regulatory, and External Affairs
  source text: On June 12, 2025, Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd) announced that Lewis Binswanger, Senior Vice President, Government, Regulatory, and External Affairs, will depart ComEd effective January 1, 2026.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/22606/000002260625000020/0000022606-25-000020-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.