---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000023197-21-000018"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CMTL"
cik: "0000023197"
company_name: "COMTECH TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP /DE/"
filed_at: "2021-07-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-30T03:25:49.005827+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Comtech appoints Judy Chambers to board; three directors to retire at Dec. 2021 annual meeting

## Summary
- Judy Chambers appointed to Comtech Board effective Aug 1, 2021; will chair Nominating and Governance Committee.
- Three directors (Edwin Kantor, Ira Kaplan, Robert Paul) to retire following Dec 2021 annual meeting.
- Post-retirements, board reduced to five members; Lawrence Waldman becomes Lead Independent Director.
- Chambers brings 30 years experience, Managing Principal at Meketa Investment Group.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000023197-21-000018
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CMTL
- cik: 0000023197
- company_name: COMTECH TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP /DE/
- filed_at: 2021-07-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/23197/000002319721000018/0000023197-21-000018-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/23197/000002319721000018/cmtl-20210722.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000023197-21-000018.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Lawrence Waldman changed role as Lead Independent Director at COMTECH TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP /DE/.
  - Action: become
  - Role: Lead Independent Director
  source text: existing Board member and Chairman of the Audit Committee, Lawrence Waldman, will become Lead Independent Director
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/23197/000002319721000018/0000023197-21-000018-index.htm
- Executive change
  Edwin Kantor departed as Director at COMTECH TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP /DE/.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Director
  source text: retirements of directors Edwin Kantor, Ira Kaplan and Robert Paul from the Comtech Board following the Company’s fiscal 2021 annual meeting
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/23197/000002319721000018/0000023197-21-000018-index.htm
- Executive change
  Judy Chambers was appointed as Director at COMTECH TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP /DE/.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: Judy Chambers, Managing Principal of Meketa Investment Group, has been appointed to Comtech’s Board of Directors, effective at the start of Comtech’s fiscal year 2022 which begins August 1, 2021.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/23197/000002319721000018/0000023197-21-000018-index.htm
- Executive change
  Robert Paul departed as Director at COMTECH TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP /DE/.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Director
  source text: retirements of directors Edwin Kantor, Ira Kaplan and Robert Paul from the Comtech Board following the Company’s fiscal 2021 annual meeting
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/23197/000002319721000018/0000023197-21-000018-index.htm
- Executive change
  Ira Kaplan departed as Director at COMTECH TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP /DE/.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Director
  source text: retirements of directors Edwin Kantor, Ira Kaplan and Robert Paul from the Comtech Board following the Company’s fiscal 2021 annual meeting
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/23197/000002319721000018/0000023197-21-000018-index.htm

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