---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000732717-22-000073"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "T"
cik: "0000732717"
company_name: "AT&T INC."
filed_at: "2022-07-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-24T21:49:09.913172+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# AT&T appoints Debra L. Dial as SVP, Chief Accounting Officer and principal accounting officer

## Summary
- Debra L. Dial, 61, appointed SVP - Chief Accounting Officer and Controller, effective June 30, 2022.
- Dial has been with AT&T for 25 years, most recently as SVP - Controller for the past six years.
- Pascal Desroches (CFO) had been acting as principal accounting officer; Dial now assumes that role.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000732717-22-000073
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: T
- cik: 0000732717
- company_name: AT&T INC.
- filed_at: 2022-07-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/732717/000073271722000073/0000732717-22-000073-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/732717/000073271722000073/a8-kdial.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000732717-22-000073
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000732717-22-000073.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000732717-22-000073.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Debra L. Dial was appointed as Senior Vice President - Chief Accounting Officer and Controller at AT&T INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Senior Vice President - Chief Accounting Officer and Controller
  source text: On June 30, 2022, AT&T Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), appointed Debra L. Dial to the position of Senior Vice President - Chief Accounting Officer and Controller, and Ms. Dial assumed the responsibilities of principal accounting officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/732717/000073271722000073/0000732717-22-000073-index.htm

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