---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000940944-25-000006"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DRI"
cik: "0000940944"
company_name: "DARDEN RESTAURANTS INC"
filed_at: "2025-01-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T08:53:16.241462+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Darden Restaurants director Nana Mensa retires from board effective Jan 28, 2025

## Summary
- Nana Mensa notified Darden of his retirement from the Board on January 27, 2025, effective next day.
- Departure is not due to any disagreement with the Company, Board, or management.
- No replacement has been announced; Company thanked Mr. Mensa for his years of service.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000940944-25-000006
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DRI
- cik: 0000940944
- company_name: DARDEN RESTAURANTS INC
- filed_at: 2025-01-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/940944/000094094425000006/0000940944-25-000006-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/940944/000094094425000006/dri-20250127.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000940944-25-000006.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Nana Mensah retired as Member of the Board of Directors at DARDEN RESTAURANTS INC.
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Member of the Board of Directors
  source text: On January 27, 2025, Nana Mensah, a member of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Darden Restaurants, Inc. (the “Company”), notified the Company of his decision to retire from the Board effective January 28, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/940944/000094094425000006/0000940944-25-000006-index.htm

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