---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001171843-25-006755"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CLFD"
cik: "0000796505"
company_name: "Clearfield, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-10-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T01:47:30.906139+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Clearfield appoints Rebecca Seidel and Kathleen Skarvan to Board of Directors, effective Dec 10

## Summary
- Clearfield elected Rebecca Seidel and Kathleen Skarvan to its Board, effective December 10, 2025.
- Seidel will serve on Audit and Compensation Committees; Skarvan on Audit and Nominating & Governance Committees.
- Directors Charles Hayssen and Donald Hayward will retire at the end of their terms in late February 2026.
- Seidel is SVP and President of Cardiac Ablation Solutions at Medtronic; Skarvan is former President/CEO of Electromed and a current board director.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001171843-25-006755
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CLFD
- cik: 0000796505
- company_name: Clearfield, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-10-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/796505/000117184325006755/0001171843-25-006755-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/796505/000117184325006755/f8k_102925.htm

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