---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001185185-21-001477"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HOFT"
cik: "0001077688"
company_name: "HOOKER FURNISHINGS Corp"
filed_at: "2021-10-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T21:01:48.651108+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hooker Furnishings Chair Paul Toms retires; Henry Williamson named Chair

## Summary
- Paul B. Toms, Jr., Board Chair and former CEO (until Jan 2021), retired effective Oct 6, 2021.
- Retirement not due to any disagreement with the Company on operations, policies, or practices.
- Henry G. Williamson, Jr., director since 2004 and lead independent director since 2016, appointed Chair.
- Williamson's term as Chair runs through the next annual meeting in June 2022; Board reduced from 9 to 8 members.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001185185-21-001477
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HOFT
- cik: 0001077688
- company_name: HOOKER FURNISHINGS Corp
- filed_at: 2021-10-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1077688/000118518521001477/0001185185-21-001477-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1077688/000118518521001477/hookerfurn20211011_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001185185-21-001477
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001185185-21-001477.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001185185-21-001477.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Paul B. Toms, Jr. retired as Chair at HOOKER FURNISHINGS Corp.
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Chair
  source text: On October 6, 2021, Paul B. Toms, Jr., a member of the Board of Directors of Hooker Furnishings Corporation (the “Company”) and its Chair, notified the Company of his intention to retire from the Company’s Board of Directors effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1077688/000118518521001477/0001185185-21-001477-index.htm
- Executive change
  Henry G. Williamson, Jr. was appointed as Chair at HOOKER FURNISHINGS Corp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chair
  source text: the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) appointed Henry G. Williamson, Jr. to serve as its Chair through the current Board service term that ends with the Company’s next annual meeting of shareholders in June 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1077688/000118518521001477/0001185185-21-001477-index.htm

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