---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001130464-22-000025"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BKH"
cik: "0001130464"
company_name: "BLACK HILLS CORP /SD/"
filed_at: "2022-10-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-22T23:35:13.076432+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Black Hills Corp appoints Kimberly Nooney as CFO; Kinzley to retire in mid-2023

## Summary
- CFO Richard Kinzley will retire mid-2023; serves as CFO until March 31, 2023, then SVP for transition.
- Kimberly Nooney appointed SVP, CFO and Treasurer effective April 1, 2023.
- Nooney base salary $440,000; STI target 60% of base; LTI target $600,000.
- Nooney has 26 years at Black Hills; currently VP, Treasurer and Corporate Controller.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001130464-22-000025
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BKH
- cik: 0001130464
- company_name: BLACK HILLS CORP /SD/
- filed_at: 2022-10-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1130464/000113046422000025/0001130464-22-000025-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1130464/000113046422000025/bkh-20221027.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001130464-22-000025
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001130464-22-000025.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001130464-22-000025.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Kimberly F. Nooney was appointed as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer at BLACK HILLS CORP /SD/.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
  source text: the Board of Directors appointed Kimberly F. Nooney as the Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer effective April 1, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1130464/000113046422000025/0001130464-22-000025-index.htm
- Executive change
  Richard W. Kinzley departed as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at BLACK HILLS CORP /SD/.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
  source text: the Company announced that Richard W. Kinzley, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will retire from the Company in mid-2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1130464/000113046422000025/0001130464-22-000025-index.htm

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