---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-079650"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GWW"
cik: "0000277135"
company_name: "W.W. GRAINGER, INC."
filed_at: "2023-07-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T10:46:11.823427+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Grainger names Kathleen Carroll Strategic Advisor to Chairman & CEO; prior CHRO role vacated due to health issues

## Summary
- Kathleen Carroll transitions from SVP & CHRO to Strategic Advisor to Grainger's Chairman & CEO.
- Change effective July 10, 2023; Carroll is currently on health-related leave of absence.
- No successor for CHRO position has been announced; role likely being reassigned or absorbed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-079650
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GWW
- cik: 0000277135
- company_name: W.W. GRAINGER, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-07-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/277135/000110465923079650/0001104659-23-079650-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/277135/000110465923079650/tm2320859d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-079650
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-079650.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-079650.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Kathleen S. Carroll was named as Strategic Advisor to the Chairman & CEO at W.W. GRAINGER, INC..
  - Action: named
  - Role: Strategic Advisor to the Chairman & CEO
  source text: On July 10, 2023, as a result of her ongoing health issues, Ms. Kathleen S. Carroll was named Strategic Advisor to the Chairman & CEO of W.W. Grainger, Inc. (the “Company”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/277135/000110465923079650/0001104659-23-079650-index.htm

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