---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001045450-25-000024"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EPR"
cik: "0001045450"
company_name: "EPR PROPERTIES"
filed_at: "2025-01-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T08:56:39.525566+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# EPR Properties elects John Peter Suarez as independent trustee, expanding board to ten members

## Summary
- Board increased from 9 to 10 members; John Peter Suarez elected independent trustee effective Jan 24, 2025.
- Suarez previously served as EVP, Regional CEO, and Chief Administration Officer at Walmart Canada until 2023.
- Appointed to Audit Committee and Nominating/Company Governance Committee.
- Company issued press release on Jan 27, 2025, announcing the election.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001045450-25-000024
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EPR
- cik: 0001045450
- company_name: EPR PROPERTIES
- filed_at: 2025-01-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045450/000104545025000024/0001045450-25-000024-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045450/000104545025000024/epr-20250124.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001045450-25-000024
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001045450-25-000024.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001045450-25-000024.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  John Peter Suarez was elected as Trustee at EPR PROPERTIES.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Trustee
  source text: On January 24, 2025, the Board of Trustees (the "Board") of EPR Properties (the "Company") increased the size of the Board from nine to ten members and elected John Peter Suarez as an independent trustee to fill the vacancy resulting from the increase in the size of the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045450/000104545025000024/0001045450-25-000024-index.htm

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