---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-062962"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TNC"
cik: "0000097134"
company_name: "TENNANT CO"
filed_at: "2023-05-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T19:02:26.476458+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Tennant CAO Carol McKnight to depart May 26; company begins successor search

## Summary
- Carol E. McKnight, Senior VP and Chief Administrative Officer, employment ends May 26, 2023.
- Termination is under circumstances qualifying for severance per her Executive Employment Agreement.
- Company will conduct a search for a successor to lead the human resources organization.
- No interim appointment or timeline for the search was disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-062962
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TNC
- cik: 0000097134
- company_name: TENNANT CO
- filed_at: 2023-05-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/97134/000110465923062962/0001104659-23-062962-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/97134/000110465923062962/tm2316395d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-062962
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-062962.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-062962.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Carol E. McKnight was terminated as Senior Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer at TENNANT CO.
  - Action: terminated
  - Role: Senior Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer
  source text: On May 22, 2023, Tennant Company (the “Company”) announced that the employment of Carol E. McKnight, the Company’s Senior Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, will terminate effective May 26, 2023 under circumstances that entitle her to severance benefits under her previously-disclosed Executive Employment Agreement, subject to the conditions set in forth in such agreement.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/97134/000110465923062962/0001104659-23-062962-index.htm

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