---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000106640-25-000086"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WHR"
cik: "0000106640"
company_name: "WHIRLPOOL CORP /DE/"
filed_at: "2025-06-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T04:10:26.164636+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Whirlpool appoints Judith Buckner to board; she is president of Reynolds Cooking & Baking

## Summary
- Appointed effective June 16, 2025; serves on Corporate Governance and HR committees.
- Annual compensation: $150,000 cash retainer plus $160,000 in Whirlpool common stock equity.
- Buckner is president of Reynolds Cooking & Baking, a division of Reynolds Consumer Products.
- She joined Reynolds in 2000 and has held senior roles in manufacturing, operations, and engineering.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000106640-25-000086
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WHR
- cik: 0000106640
- company_name: WHIRLPOOL CORP /DE/
- filed_at: 2025-06-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/106640/000010664025000086/0000106640-25-000086-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/106640/000010664025000086/whr-20250617.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000106640-25-000086
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000106640-25-000086.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000106640-25-000086.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Judith K. Buckner was appointed as director at WHIRLPOOL CORP /DE/.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: On June 16, 2025, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Whirlpool Corporation (the "Company") appointed Judith K. Buckner as a director of Whirlpool Corporation and a member of the Board's Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee and Human Resources Committee, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/106640/000010664025000086/0000106640-25-000086-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.