---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001071739-22-000017"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CNC"
cik: "0001071739"
company_name: "CENTENE CORP"
filed_at: "2022-01-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T18:50:16.052182+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Centene appoints Leslie Norwalk to board under Politan Capital cooperation agreement

## Summary
- Leslie Norwalk, former CMS Administrator and ex-Magellan Health director, elected to Centene's Board as Class II director.
- Appointment fulfills cooperation agreement with Politan Capital Management LP, announced Dec. 14, 2021.
- Norwalk will serve on Compliance, Environmental/Social Responsibility, and Government & Regulatory Affairs committees.
- She brings expertise in government healthcare policy and biotech industry, per CEO Neidorff.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001071739-22-000017
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CNC
- cik: 0001071739
- company_name: CENTENE CORP
- filed_at: 2022-01-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1071739/000107173922000017/0001071739-22-000017-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1071739/000107173922000017/cnc-20220111.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001071739-22-000017
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001071739-22-000017.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001071739-22-000017.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Leslie Norwalk was elected as Director at CENTENE CORP.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On January 11, 2022, the board of directors of the Company (the “Board”) elected Ms. Norwalk to the Board as a Class II director, with a term expiring at the Company’s 2024 annual meeting of stockholders, and appointed her to the Board’s Compliance Committee, Environmental and Social Responsibility Committee and Government and Regulatory Affairs Committee.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1071739/000107173922000017/0001071739-22-000017-index.htm

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