---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-26-024465"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CASY"
cik: "0000726958"
company_name: "CASEYS GENERAL STORES INC"
filed_at: "2026-06-08T20:27:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-08T20:28:44.614461+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Casey's appoints Colgate-Palmolive CFO Stanley Sutula to board; Cara Heiden to retire Sept 2026

## Summary
- Stanley J. Sutula III appointed to Board of Directors, expanding board from 11 to 12 members, effective June 4, 2026.
- Sutula is CFO of Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE: CL) with over 35 years of finance experience; will serve on Audit Committee.
- Director Cara Heiden to retire at the 2026 annual meeting (September 2, 2026), reducing board back to 11; no disagreement.
- Sutula will stand for election at the 2026 annual meeting; his compensation matches other non-employee directors, prorated.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-26-024465
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CASY
- cik: 0000726958
- company_name: CASEYS GENERAL STORES INC
- filed_at: 2026-06-08T20:27:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/726958/000114036126024465/0001140361-26-024465-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/726958/000114036126024465/ef20075657_8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-26-024465
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-26-024465.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-26-024465.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Cara Heiden departed as Director at CASEYS GENERAL STORES INC.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Director
  source text: on June 4, 2026, director Cara Heiden notified the Company that she will not stand for re-election and will retire from the Board at the expiration of her current term, which runs through the Annual Meeting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/726958/000114036126024465/0001140361-26-024465-index.htm
- Executive change
  Stanley J. Sutula III was appointed as Director at CASEYS GENERAL STORES INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: appointed Stanley J. Sutula III to fill the vacancy created by the expansion, and (iii) appointed Mr. Sutula to serve on the Audit Committee, each effective as of June 4, 2026.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/726958/000114036126024465/0001140361-26-024465-index.htm

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