---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-035153"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RLJ"
cik: "0001511337"
company_name: "RLJ Lodging Trust"
filed_at: "2025-04-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T14:34:35.843536+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# RLJ Lodging Trust EVP, General Counsel Chad Perry to step down May 9, 2025

## Summary
- Chad Perry, Executive VP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, resigns effective May 9, 2025.
- Departure is to pursue principal investing opportunities; no disagreement with company.
- No replacement named yet; company has not announced a successor.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-035153
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RLJ
- cik: 0001511337
- company_name: RLJ Lodging Trust
- filed_at: 2025-04-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1511337/000110465925035153/0001104659-25-035153-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1511337/000110465925035153/tm2512310d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-035153
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-035153.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-035153.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Chad Perry departed as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at RLJ Lodging Trust.
  - Action: stepped down
  - Role: Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
  source text: On April 9, 2025, Chad Perry, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of RLJ Lodging Trust (the “Company”), informed the Company of his decision to step down from all positions he holds with the Company, effective May 9, 2025, to pursue principal investing opportunities.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1511337/000110465925035153/0001104659-25-035153-index.htm

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