---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-22-062270"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PFG"
cik: "0001126328"
company_name: "PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP INC"
filed_at: "2022-05-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T09:45:18.208494+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Principal Financial Group elects H. Elizabeth Mitchell to board of directors

## Summary
- Mitchell, former president/CEO of Renaissance Reinsurance U.S., elected to board effective May 18, 2022.
- She will serve on Audit and Finance committees; compensation consistent with non-employee director program.
- Shareholders re-elected three Class III directors (Dan, Pickerell, Richer) with strong support.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved with 158.7M votes for vs 7.4M against.
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as auditor for 2022 passed with 164.9M votes for.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-22-062270
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PFG
- cik: 0001126328
- company_name: PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP INC
- filed_at: 2022-05-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1126328/000110465922062270/0001104659-22-062270-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1126328/000110465922062270/tm2215895d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-062270
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-062270.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-062270.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  H. Elizabeth Mitchell was elected as Director at PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP INC.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On May 16, 2022, the Board of Directors of Principal Financial Group, Inc. (the “Company”) elected H. Elizabeth Mitchell as a new director of the Company and of Principal Life Insurance Company, effective May 18,2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1126328/000110465922062270/0001104659-22-062270-index.htm

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