---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000807882-25-000010"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "JACK"
cik: "0000807882"
company_name: "JACK IN THE BOX INC"
filed_at: "2025-02-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T06:37:15.019955+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CEO Darin Harris resigns; CFO Lance Tucker named interim CEO

## Summary
- Darin Harris resigns as CEO and director effective immediately, will consult through March 14, 2025.
- CFO Lance Tucker appointed interim principal executive officer; salary raised to $900,000 plus $500,000 RSU grant.
- SVP & Controller Dawn Hooper named interim principal financial officer; salary increased $19,500 per month.
- Board reduced to eight members following Harris's departure.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000807882-25-000010
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: JACK
- cik: 0000807882
- company_name: JACK IN THE BOX INC
- filed_at: 2025-02-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/807882/000080788225000010/0000807882-25-000010-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/807882/000080788225000010/jack-20250220.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000807882-25-000010
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000807882-25-000010.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Lance Tucker was appointed as interim principal executive officer at JACK IN THE BOX INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: interim principal executive officer
  source text: Lance Tucker, age 55, the Company’s Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, will serve as the Company’s interim principal executive officer effective February 24, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/807882/000080788225000010/0000807882-25-000010-index.htm
- Executive change
  Dawn Hooper was appointed as interim principal financial officer and principal accounting officer at JACK IN THE BOX INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: interim principal financial officer and principal accounting officer
  source text: To fill Mr. Tucker’s role, Dawn Hooper, age 54, the Company’s Senior Vice President, Controller, will serve as the Company’s interim principal financial officer and principal accounting officer effective February 24, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/807882/000080788225000010/0000807882-25-000010-index.htm
- Executive change
  Darin Harris resigned as Chief Executive Officer and Director at JACK IN THE BOX INC.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer and Director
  source text: On February 20, 2025, Darin Harris notified the Company’s Board of Directors of his intention to resign from his positions as Chief Executive Officer and Director of the Company, effective immediately, to pursue other opportunities.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/807882/000080788225000010/0000807882-25-000010-index.htm

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