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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-167894"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GM"
cik: "0001467858"
company_name: "General Motors Co"
filed_at: "2024-06-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T02:09:17.693222+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# GM appoints Grant Dixton as EVP, Chief Legal and Public Policy Officer; Glidden shifts to Cruise focus

## Summary
- Grant Dixton, former Activision Blizzard CLO and Boeing exec, joins as EVP/Chief Legal & Public Policy Officer effective July 15, 2024.
- Craig Glidden becomes EVP/Strategic Advisor at GM through Dec 31, 2024; remains President/CAO of Cruise supporting new CEO Marc Whitten.
- Dixton will report to CEO Mary Barra; oversee global legal, compliance, governance, privacy, and public policy.
- Glidden previously led GM's legal transformation and conclusion of ignition switch recall litigation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-167894
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GM
- cik: 0001467858
- company_name: General Motors Co
- filed_at: 2024-06-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1467858/000119312524167894/0001193125-24-167894-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1467858/000119312524167894/d822413d8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-167894
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-167894.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-167894.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Craig B. Glidden changed role as Executive Vice President and Strategic Advisor; also President and CAO of Cruise at General Motors Co.
  - Action: role change
  - Role: Executive Vice President and Strategic Advisor; also President and CAO of Cruise
  source text: the Board approved the election of Craig B. Glidden to a new role as the Company's Executive Vice President and Strategic Advisor, a position he will hold through December 31, 2024. He will also remain the President and Chief Administrative Officer of GM Cruise Holdings LLC
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1467858/000119312524167894/0001193125-24-167894-index.htm
- Executive change
  Grant M. Dixton was appointed as Executive Vice President and Chief Legal and Public Policy Officer at General Motors Co.
  - Action: appointment
  - Role: Executive Vice President and Chief Legal and Public Policy Officer
  source text: the Board elected Grant M. Dixton to succeed Mr. Glidden and serve as the Company's Executive Vice President and Chief Legal and Public Policy Officer
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1467858/000119312524167894/0001193125-24-167894-index.htm

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