---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-170544"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VZ"
cik: "0000732712"
company_name: "VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC"
filed_at: "2024-06-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T01:22:20.229369+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Verizon elects Merck CFO Caroline Litchfield to board, effective Oct 1, 2024

## Summary
- Caroline A. Litchfield, EVP and CFO of Merck & Co., elected to Verizon's Board of Directors effective October 1, 2024.
- She will receive standard non-employee director compensation; no board committee has been assigned yet.
- Election occurred on June 27, 2024, the date of this filing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-170544
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VZ
- cik: 0000732712
- company_name: VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC
- filed_at: 2024-06-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/732712/000119312524170544/0001193125-24-170544-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/732712/000119312524170544/d858119d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-170544
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-170544.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-170544.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Caroline A. Litchfield was elected as Director at VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On June 27, 2024, the Board of Directors of Verizon Communications Inc. (Verizon) elected Caroline A. Litchfield, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Merck & Co., Inc., as a director, effective October 1, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/732712/000119312524170544/0001193125-24-170544-index.htm

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