---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001076598-25-000338"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EVT"
cik: "0001253327"
company_name: "Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Dividend Income Fund"
filed_at: "2025-08-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T12:51:27.607962+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Dividend Income Fund Chair Mark R. Fetting dies unexpectedly

## Summary
- Chairperson Mark R. Fetting unexpectedly passed away on August 9, 2025.
- Ms. Susan J. Sutherland appointed acting Chairperson of the Board.
- Board reduced size from ten to nine trustees, effective August 12, 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001076598-25-000338
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EVT
- cik: 0001253327
- company_name: Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Dividend Income Fund
- filed_at: 2025-08-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1253327/000107659825000338/0001076598-25-000338-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1253327/000107659825000338/evt8k.htm

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