---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000091142-22-000047"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AOS"
cik: "0000091142"
company_name: "SMITH A O CORP"
filed_at: "2022-03-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T02:14:07.691848+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Board member Bruce M. Smith to retire at end of term on April 12, 2022; remains trustee of controlling family trust

## Summary
- Bruce M. Smith will retire from the Board at the conclusion of his current term on April 12, 2022.
- He reached the director retirement age of 72; Board requested he stay an additional year for continuity.
- He will remain a trustee of the Smith Family Voting Trust, which holds a controlling stock position in the Company.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000091142-22-000047
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AOS
- cik: 0000091142
- company_name: SMITH A O CORP
- filed_at: 2022-03-03T23:59:59+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/91142/000009114222000047/0000091142-22-000047-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/91142/000009114222000047/aos-20220303.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000091142-22-000047
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000091142-22-000047.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000091142-22-000047.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Bruce M. Smith departed as member of the Board of Directors at SMITH A O CORP.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: member of the Board of Directors
  source text: Bruce M. Smith, who is currently a member of the Board of Directors of A. O. Smith Corporation (“the Company”), advised the Company that he will retire as a member of the Board upon the conclusion of his current term on April 12, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/91142/000009114222000047/0000091142-22-000047-index.htm

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