secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     SOUTHERN CO (SO)
CIK:        0000092122
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-10-17T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000092122-23-000097
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.35
Item codes: 5.02
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

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

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92122/000009212223000097/0000092122-23-000097-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92122/000009212223000097/so-20231016.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000092122-23-000097

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