---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001065696-25-000008"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LKQ"
cik: "0001065696"
company_name: "LKQ CORP"
filed_at: "2025-02-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T10:20:59.714629+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# LKQ director Blythe J. McGarvie declines re-election to board, to leave after May 2025 meeting

## Summary
- Blythe J. McGarvie notified LKQ on Feb 13, 2025 she will not stand for re-election to the Board.
- She continues as director until the 2025 Annual Meeting, expected in May 2025.
- No successor has been announced; board size will decrease by one at the meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001065696-25-000008
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LKQ
- cik: 0001065696
- company_name: LKQ CORP
- filed_at: 2025-02-19T23:59:59+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/1065696/000106569625000008/0001065696-25-000008-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065696/000106569625000008/lkq-20250213.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001065696-25-000008
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001065696-25-000008.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001065696-25-000008.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Blythe J. McGarvie departed as Director at LKQ CORP.
  - Action: declined to be nominated for re-election
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 13, 2025, Blythe J. McGarvie, a member of the Board of Directors of LKQ Corporation (the “Company”), notified the Company of her decision to decline to be nominated for re-election to the Company’s Board of Directors.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065696/000106569625000008/0001065696-25-000008-index.htm

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