---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-21-259978"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SHW"
cik: "0000089800"
company_name: "SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO"
filed_at: "2021-08-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T07:10:44.070558+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sherwin-Williams elects former Norfolk Southern CFO Marta R. Stewart to Board

## Summary
- Board expanded from 10 to 11 members; Stewart fills new vacancy effective August 29, 2021.
- Stewart, 63, served as EVP and CFO of Norfolk Southern until August 2017.
- Appointed to the Audit Committee; determined independent under NYSE standards.
- Received 575 restricted stock units vesting in one-third increments over three years.
- No arrangements or related-party transactions with other persons related to her selection.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-21-259978
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SHW
- cik: 0000089800
- company_name: SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO
- filed_at: 2021-08-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/89800/000119312521259978/0001193125-21-259978-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/89800/000119312521259978/d180225d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-259978
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-259978.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-21-259978.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Marta R. Stewart was elected as Director at SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On August 29, 2021, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of The Sherwin-Williams Company (“Sherwin-Williams”) increased the size of the Board from ten to eleven members and elected Marta R. Stewart to fill the resulting vacancy, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/89800/000119312521259978/0001193125-21-259978-index.htm

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