---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000092122-23-000064"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SO"
cik: "0000092122"
company_name: "SOUTHERN CO"
filed_at: "2023-07-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T07:25:19.506498+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Director Colette D. Honorable resigns from Southern Company board effective Aug 1, 2023

## Summary
- Colette D. Honorable notified the Board on July 12, 2023 of her offer to resign due to a change in principal business association.
- The Board accepted the resignation on July 17, 2023; effective August 1, 2023.
- Resignation was required by the Company's corporate governance guidelines.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000092122-23-000064
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SO
- cik: 0000092122
- company_name: SOUTHERN CO
- filed_at: 2023-07-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92122/000009212223000064/0000092122-23-000064-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92122/000009212223000064/so-20230717.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000092122-23-000064.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Colette D. Honorable resigned as Director at SOUTHERN CO.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: On July 12, 2023, Colette D. Honorable notified The Southern Company (the “Company”) of her offer of resignation from its Board of Directors (the “Board”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92122/000009212223000064/0000092122-23-000064-index.htm

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