---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-127605"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WMB"
cik: "0000107263"
company_name: "WILLIAMS COMPANIES, INC."
filed_at: "2022-04-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-26T03:05:24.117571+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Williams Companies directors Chazen and Cogut retire; all 12 nominees elected at annual meeting

## Summary
- Directors Stephen I. Chazen and Charles I. Cogut retired at the April 26, 2022 annual meeting upon term expiration.
- All 12 director nominees elected: Armstrong, Bergstrom, Buese, Creel, Doré, Muncrief, Ragauss, Robeson, Sheffield, Smith, Spence, Tyson.
- Ernst & Young LLP ratified as auditor for FY2022 with 1,024,196,507 votes for, 51,938,306 against.
- Advisory say-on-pay approved: 928,633,427 votes for, 36,931,443 against, 2,497,173 abstentions.
- No shareholder questions were submitted for the annual meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-127605
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WMB
- cik: 0000107263
- company_name: WILLIAMS COMPANIES, INC.
- filed_at: 2022-04-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/107263/000119312522127605/0001193125-22-127605-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/107263/000119312522127605/d129473d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Stephen I. Chazen retired as director at WILLIAMS COMPANIES, INC..
  - Action: retired
  - Role: director
  source text: directors Stephen I. Chazen and Charles I. Cogut retired from the Board upon the expiration of their terms at the Annual Meeting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/107263/000119312522127605/0001193125-22-127605-index.htm
- Executive change
  Charles I. Cogut retired as director at WILLIAMS COMPANIES, INC..
  - Action: retired
  - Role: director
  source text: directors Stephen I. Chazen and Charles I. Cogut retired from the Board upon the expiration of their terms at the Annual Meeting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/107263/000119312522127605/0001193125-22-127605-index.htm

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