---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000842162-25-000013"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LEA"
cik: "0000842162"
company_name: "LEAR CORP"
filed_at: "2025-02-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T18:18:17.737028+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lear appoints former GM China President Julian Blissett to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Julian Blissett, former EVP and President of GM China, elected to Lear Board effective Feb 14, 2025.
- Mr. Blissett brings 28 years of GM experience including leadership in China, UK, Japan, and Poland.
- Board determined Blissett qualifies as independent under NYSE standards; no initial committee assignments.
- Blissett will receive standard non-employee director compensation as per Lear's Outside Directors Plan.
- No arrangements or related transactions exist between Blissett and the company per Reg S-K Item 404(a).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000842162-25-000013
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LEA
- cik: 0000842162
- company_name: LEAR CORP
- filed_at: 2025-02-18T23:59:59+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/842162/000084216225000013/0000842162-25-000013-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/842162/000084216225000013/lear-20250214.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000842162-25-000013
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000842162-25-000013.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000842162-25-000013.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: 49d7397d98
  claim: Julian Blissett was elected as Director at LEAR CORP.
  evidence_excerpt: On February 14, 2025, Julian Blissett was elected to the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Lear Corporation (the “Company”) for a term ending at the 2025 annual meeting of shareholders of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/842162/000084216225000013/0000842162-25-000013-index.htm

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