---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-050567"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AEO"
cik: "0000919012"
company_name: "AMERICAN EAGLE OUTFITTERS INC"
filed_at: "2025-04-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T23:02:48.350162+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Director Stephanie Pugliese resigns from American Eagle Outfitters board effective April 1, 2025

## Summary
- Stephanie Pugliese resigned from the Board on April 1, 2025.
- Resignation due to her upcoming appointment as President and CEO of another public company.
- No replacement was announced; the board now has one vacancy.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-050567
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AEO
- cik: 0000919012
- company_name: AMERICAN EAGLE OUTFITTERS INC
- filed_at: 2025-04-03T23:59:59+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/919012/000095017025050567/0000950170-25-050567-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/919012/000095017025050567/aeo-20250403.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-050567
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-050567.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-050567.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Stephanie Pugliese resigned as Director at AMERICAN EAGLE OUTFITTERS INC.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: On April 1, 2025 (the “Effective Date”), Stephanie Pugliese informed American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. (the “Company”) that she was resigning from the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”), as of the Effective Date, due to her upcoming appointment as President and Chief Executive Officer of another publicly traded company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/919012/000095017025050567/0000950170-25-050567-index.htm

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