---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000025232-25-000004"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CUZ"
cik: "0000025232"
company_name: "COUSINS PROPERTIES INC"
filed_at: "2025-02-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T03:41:21.056953+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cousins Properties appoints Susan L. Givens to board; Lillian C. Giornelli to retire after 26 years

## Summary
- Board expanded to 10 directors effective April 1, 2025, then reduces to 9 after 2025 annual meeting.
- Susan L. Givens, former Blackstone Senior Managing Director and CEO of New Senior Investment Group, elected.
- Lillian C. Giornelli will retire at the 2025 Annual Shareholder Meeting, ending 26 years of service.
- Givens is independent with no material transactions or stock ownership; will receive standard non-employee director compensation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000025232-25-000004
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CUZ
- cik: 0000025232
- company_name: COUSINS PROPERTIES INC
- filed_at: 2025-02-04T23:59:59+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/25232/000002523225000004/0000025232-25-000004-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/25232/000002523225000004/cuz-20250204.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000025232-25-000004
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000025232-25-000004.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000025232-25-000004.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Lillian C. Giornelli departed as Director at COUSINS PROPERTIES INC.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Director
  source text: Director Lillian C. Giornelli notified Cousins Properties Incorporated (the "Company") of her decision to retire from the Company, effective as of the date of the Company’s 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/25232/000002523225000004/0000025232-25-000004-index.htm
- Executive change
  Susan L. Givens was elected as Director at COUSINS PROPERTIES INC.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: elected Susan L. Givens to fill the vacancy so created, both effective April 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/25232/000002523225000004/0000025232-25-000004-index.htm

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