---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000936528-23-000084"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WAFD"
cik: "0000936528"
company_name: "WAFD INC"
filed_at: "2023-03-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-18T01:31:12.991263+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Washington Federal appoints Blayne Sanden as Principal Accounting Officer

## Summary
- Effective March 15, 2023, Blayne Sanden, 46, promoted to SVP and Principal Accounting Officer.
- Joined company in March 2019 as Assistant Controller; previously CPA at Deloitte & Touche.
- Received grant of 2,000 restricted shares vesting over 4.5 years under company Incentive Plan.
- No family relationships with directors/executives and no material related-party transactions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000936528-23-000084
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WAFD
- cik: 0000936528
- company_name: WAFD INC
- filed_at: 2023-03-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/936528/000093652823000084/0000936528-23-000084-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/936528/000093652823000084/wfsl-20230315.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000936528-23-000084.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Blayne Sanden was appointed as Senior Vice President, Principal Accounting Officer at WAFD INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Senior Vice President, Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: Effective March 15, 2023, Washington Federal, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Blayne Sanden as the Company’s Senior Vice President, Principal Accounting Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/936528/000093652823000084/0000936528-23-000084-index.htm

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