---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000860731-22-000024"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TYL"
cik: "0000860731"
company_name: "TYLER TECHNOLOGIES INC"
filed_at: "2022-05-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T10:45:16.026960+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Tyler Technologies enters new employment agreements with CEO, Chairman, CFO, and appoints new COO

## Summary
- Board approved amended agreements for Chairman Marr, CEO Moore, CFO Miller, effective May 12, 2022.
- New COO Jeffrey Puckett also signed an employment agreement, his first with the company.
- Initial term of one year with automatic renewal; base salary and target bonus set by Compensation Committee.
- Severance on termination without cause or after change in control: lump sum of base salary plus target bonus, 12-month medical benefits, full equity vesting.
- Non-compete and non-solicitation covenants extend one year post-termination.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000860731-22-000024
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TYL
- cik: 0000860731
- company_name: TYLER TECHNOLOGIES INC
- filed_at: 2022-05-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/860731/000086073122000024/0000860731-22-000024-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/860731/000086073122000024/tyl-20220518.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000860731-22-000024
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000860731-22-000024.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000860731-22-000024.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jeffrey D. Puckett was appointed as Chief Operating Officer at TYLER TECHNOLOGIES INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Operating Officer
  source text: as well as a new employment agreement with Jeffrey D. Puckett (Chief Operating Officer).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/860731/000086073122000024/0000860731-22-000024-index.htm

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