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Issuer:     SOUTHERN CO (SO)
CIK:        0000092122
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-12-12T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000092122-23-000106
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.60
Item codes: 5.02
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Southern Co. Executive Chairman Fanning retiring Dec 31; CEO Womack to also become Chairman
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- Thomas A. Fanning retires as Executive Chairman and from the Board effective December 31, 2023.
- Christopher C. Womack, current President & CEO, elected Chairman of the Board effective December 31.
- Fanning expected to sign a consulting agreement with Southern Co. Services for $250K cash in 2024 on national security/cyber/energy policy.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92122/000009212223000106/0000092122-23-000106-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92122/000009212223000106/so-20231211.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000092122-23-000106

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