---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000277638-25-000003"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0000277638"
company_name: "DAVEY TREE EXPERT CO"
filed_at: "2025-03-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T11:47:09.006174+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Davey Tree appoints Joseph E. McNeely to Board effective March 7, 2025

## Summary
- Appointed Joseph E. McNeely to fill a Board vacancy, effective March 7, 2025.
- McNeely, 60, retired Dec 2024 as President, Nutrient and Industrial Group of The Andersons, Inc.
- Also appointed to the Audit Committee of the Board.
- His term expires at the 2025 annual meeting (May 20, 2025) and he will stand for election.
- Compensation follows standard non-employee director arrangements as described in proxy statement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000277638-25-000003
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0000277638
- company_name: DAVEY TREE EXPERT CO
- filed_at: 2025-03-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/277638/000027763825000003/0000277638-25-000003-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/277638/000027763825000003/davey-20250228.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000277638-25-000003
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000277638-25-000003.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000277638-25-000003.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Joseph E. McNeely was appointed as Director at DAVEY TREE EXPERT CO.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 28, 2025, the Board of Directors of The Davey Tree Expert Company (the “Company”) appointed Joseph E. McNeely to fill a vacancy on the Board, effective March 7, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/277638/000027763825000003/0000277638-25-000003-index.htm

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