---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-113868"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RWT"
cik: "0000930236"
company_name: "REDWOOD TRUST INC"
filed_at: "2023-11-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-09T01:36:40.085972+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Redwood Trust appoints Doneene K. Damon to its Board of Directors, effective Nov 2, 2023

## Summary
- Board expanded from 8 to 9 directors; Damon fills the new vacancy.
- Damon appointed to Compensation Committee and Governance & Nominating Committee.
- Damon is a Director at Richards, Layton & Finger, with over 30 years of legal and structured finance experience.
- Appointment is part of Board refreshment and succession planning initiatives.
- Damon will stand for re-election at the May 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-113868
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RWT
- cik: 0000930236
- company_name: REDWOOD TRUST INC
- filed_at: 2023-11-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/930236/000110465923113868/0001104659-23-113868-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/930236/000110465923113868/tm2329761d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-113868
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-113868.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-113868.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Doneene K. Damon was appointed as Director at REDWOOD TRUST INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: the Board of Directors of Redwood Trust, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that Doneene K. Damon has joined the Board of Directors, to fill the vacancy created by the Board’s decision to increase the size of the Board from eight directors to nine.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/930236/000110465923113868/0001104659-23-113868-index.htm

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