---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000892712-22-000116"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KSS"
cik: "0000885639"
company_name: "KOHLS Corp"
filed_at: "2022-05-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T17:24:31.994250+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Kohl's independent Chair Frank Sica retires; shareholders elect company director slate

## Summary
- Frank Sica retired as independent Chair effective May 11, 2022; no successor named.
- All 13 company-nominated directors were elected; Macellum's competing slate received mostly withheld votes.
- Say-on-pay proposal passed with ~82.96M for vs ~22.76M against.
- Ratification of independent auditors passed with ~98.89M for vs ~8.13M against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000892712-22-000116
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KSS
- cik: 0000885639
- company_name: KOHLS Corp
- filed_at: 2022-05-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/885639/000089271222000116/0000892712-22-000116-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/885639/000089271222000116/kss-20220511.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000892712-22-000116
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000892712-22-000116.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000892712-22-000116.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Frank Sica retired as Independent Chair at KOHLS Corp.
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Independent Chair
  source text: the Company’s independent Chair, Frank Sica, retired effective as of the Company’s 2022 annual meeting of shareholders held on May 11, 2022
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/885639/000089271222000116/0000892712-22-000116-index.htm

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