---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000025232-22-000049"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CUZ"
cik: "0000025232"
company_name: "COUSINS PROPERTIES INC"
filed_at: "2022-12-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T03:43:28.551344+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cousins Properties promotes Kennedy Hicks to Chief Investment Officer

## Summary
- Hicks appointed Executive VP, Chief Investment Officer & Managing Director - Atlanta, effective December 15, 2022.
- She has been with Cousins since 2018, previously serving as Executive VP of Investments and Atlanta Market Managing Director.
- In new role, Hicks oversees acquisitions, dispositions, and strategic investments across Sun Belt markets.
- Prior to Cousins, Hicks was a Managing Director at Eastdil Secured, advising on office property equity transactions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000025232-22-000049
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CUZ
- cik: 0000025232
- company_name: COUSINS PROPERTIES INC
- filed_at: 2022-12-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/25232/000002523222000049/0000025232-22-000049-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/25232/000002523222000049/cuz-20221216.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000025232-22-000049
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000025232-22-000049.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000025232-22-000049.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Kennedy Hicks was appointed as Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Officer & Managing Director - Atlanta at COUSINS PROPERTIES INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Officer & Managing Director - Atlanta
  source text: On December 15, 2022, Cousins Properties Incorporated (the "Company") announced that Kennedy Hicks has been appointed Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Officer & Managing Director - Atlanta, effective December 15, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/25232/000002523222000049/0000025232-22-000049-index.htm

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