---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000943374-23-000257"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KRNY"
cik: "0001617242"
company_name: "Kearny Financial Corp."
filed_at: "2023-06-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T19:04:12.325851+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Kearny Financial appoints Curtland E. Fields and Melvina Wong-Zaza as directors

## Summary
- Appointments effective June 22, 2023, to boards of Kearny Financial Corp. and Kearny Bank.
- Curtland E. Fields is President/CEO of Turrell Fund; previously an AT&T executive overseeing $4B division.
- Melvina Wong-Zaza is Director, Strategic Global Clients at CMA-CGM Group with 30+ years of senior management.
- No arrangements or transactions with the company requiring disclosure under Item 404(a); committee assignments pending.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000943374-23-000257
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KRNY
- cik: 0001617242
- company_name: Kearny Financial Corp.
- filed_at: 2023-06-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1617242/000094337423000257/0000943374-23-000257-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1617242/000094337423000257/form8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000943374-23-000257
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000943374-23-000257.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Curtland E. Fields was appointed as director at Kearny Financial Corp..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: On June 22, 2023, Kearny Financial Corp. (the “Company”) and Kearny Bank (the “Bank”) announced that Curtland E. Fields and Melvina Wong-Zaza were each appointed to the boards of directors of the Company and the Bank, effective June 22, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1617242/000094337423000257/0000943374-23-000257-index.htm
- Executive change
  Melvina Wong-Zaza was appointed as director at Kearny Financial Corp..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: On June 22, 2023, Kearny Financial Corp. (the “Company”) and Kearny Bank (the “Bank”) announced that Curtland E. Fields and Melvina Wong-Zaza were each appointed to the boards of directors of the Company and the Bank, effective June 22, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1617242/000094337423000257/0000943374-23-000257-index.htm

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