---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000200406-22-000089"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "JNJ"
cik: "0000200406"
company_name: "JOHNSON & JOHNSON"
filed_at: "2022-12-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T11:13:57.985903+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# JNJ CEO Joaquin Duato elected Chairman as Alex Gorsky retires

## Summary
- Duato, CEO since Jan 2022, becomes Chairman effective January 2023.
- Gorsky steps down from Board after 30-year career following transition.
- Duato to continue leading JNJ and oversee planned Kenvue consumer health spinoff.
- Anne Mulcahy, Lead Independent Director, praised Gorsky and Duato.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000200406-22-000089
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: JNJ
- cik: 0000200406
- company_name: JOHNSON & JOHNSON
- filed_at: 2022-12-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/200406/000020040622000089/0000200406-22-000089-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/200406/000020040622000089/jnj-20221130.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000200406-22-000089
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000200406-22-000089.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000200406-22-000089.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Alex Gorsky departed as Chairman at JOHNSON & JOHNSON.
  - Action: step down
  - Role: Chairman
  source text: Current Chairman Alex Gorsky will step down from the Board in January 2023, following a brief transition period and will not stand for reelection in 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/200406/000020040622000089/0000200406-22-000089-index.htm
- Executive change
  Joaquin Duato was elected as Chairman at JOHNSON & JOHNSON.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Chairman
  source text: the Company announced that its Board of Directors elected Joaquin Duato Chairman, Board of Directors of Johnson & Johnson effective upon current Chairman Alex Gorsky’s retirement from the Board of Directors.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/200406/000020040622000089/0000200406-22-000089-index.htm

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