---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000072903-22-000038"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "XEL"
cik: "0000072903"
company_name: "XCEL ENERGY INC"
filed_at: "2022-06-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T00:08:47.696020+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Xcel Energy elects Megan D. Burkhart to board of directors

## Summary
- Megan Burkhart elected to board effective June 22, 2022, term expiring at 2023 annual meeting.
- Board expanded from 11 to 12 directors; Burkhart deemed independent under Nasdaq rules.
- Appointed to Audit Committee and Governance, Compensation and Nominating Committee.
- Burkhart serves as EVP, CHRO at Comerica Incorporated, a $94B financial services company.
- Compensation per standard non-employee director plan, prorated from start to 2023 meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000072903-22-000038
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: XEL
- cik: 0000072903
- company_name: XCEL ENERGY INC
- filed_at: 2022-06-22T23:59:59+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/72903/000007290322000038/0000072903-22-000038-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72903/000007290322000038/xel-20220622.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000072903-22-000038
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000072903-22-000038.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000072903-22-000038.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Megan D. Burkhart was elected as Director at XCEL ENERGY INC.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On June 22, 2022, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Xcel Energy Inc. (“Xcel Energy”) elected Megan D. Burkhart, 50, to serve on the Board effective June 22, 2022, for a term expiring at the Xcel Energy 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72903/000007290322000038/0000072903-22-000038-index.htm

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