---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-002432"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WDC"
cik: "0000106040"
company_name: "WESTERN DIGITAL CORP"
filed_at: "2024-01-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T03:47:57.728572+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Western Digital EVP & Chief Legal Officer Michael C. Ray departing Jan 12; Cynthia Lock Tregillis to succeed

## Summary
- Michael C. Ray, EVP, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary, leaving effective Jan 12, 2024, to pursue other opportunity.
- Cynthia Lock Tregillis, SVP, Deputy General Counsel and Assistant Secretary, will assume Chief Legal Officer role.
- No other executive changes or compensatory arrangements disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-002432
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WDC
- cik: 0000106040
- company_name: WESTERN DIGITAL CORP
- filed_at: 2024-01-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/106040/000119312524002432/0001193125-24-002432-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/106040/000119312524002432/d122212d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-002432
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-002432.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-002432.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Cynthia Lock Tregillis was appointed as Chief Legal Officer at WESTERN DIGITAL CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Legal Officer
  source text: Cynthia Lock Tregillis, Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Assistant Secretary, will assume the Chief Legal Officer role following Mr. Ray’s departure from the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/106040/000119312524002432/0001193125-24-002432-index.htm
- Executive change
  Michael C. Ray resigned as Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary at WESTERN DIGITAL CORP.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary
  source text: Michael C. Ray, Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary, notified Western Digital Corporation (the “Company”) that he is leaving the Company effective January 12, 2024, to pursue another opportunity.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/106040/000119312524002432/0001193125-24-002432-index.htm

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