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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000092122-23-000097"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SO"
cik: "0000092122"
company_name: "SOUTHERN CO"
filed_at: "2023-10-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-09T23:01:43.931158+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Southern Co elects Shantella E. Cooper to board of directors effective Oct 16, 2023

## Summary
- Ms. Cooper is CEO of Journey Forward Strategies, LLC; also serves on boards of SouthState, Intercontinental Exchange, Veritiv.
- She previously served on Georgia Power (subsidiary) board from 2017 to Oct 16, 2023.
- She will receive standard non-employee director compensation; aggregate Georgia Power director pay $158k (2022) and ~$125k (2023).
- Board committee assignments for Ms. Cooper have not yet been determined.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000092122-23-000097
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SO
- cik: 0000092122
- company_name: SOUTHERN CO
- filed_at: 2023-10-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92122/000009212223000097/0000092122-23-000097-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92122/000009212223000097/so-20231016.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000092122-23-000097
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000092122-23-000097.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000092122-23-000097.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Shantella E. Cooper was elected as Director at SOUTHERN CO.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On October 16, 2023, the Board of Directors of The Southern Company (the “Company”) elected a new director, Ms. Shantella E. Cooper, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92122/000009212223000097/0000092122-23-000097-index.htm

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