---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-004026"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LUV"
cik: "0000092380"
company_name: "SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO"
filed_at: "2025-01-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T06:04:57.864605+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Southwest CFO Tammy Romo and CAO Linda Rutherford retire effective April 1, 2025

## Summary
- CFO Tammy Romo resigns after 33 years; CFO role since 2012; search for replacement underway.
- CAO Linda Rutherford resigns after 32 years; oversaw Culture, Communications, People, Technology.
- Both retirements effective April 1, 2025; departures are planned retirements, not immediate.
- CEO Bob Jordan praised both executives for guiding the airline through highs and lows.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-004026
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LUV
- cik: 0000092380
- company_name: SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO
- filed_at: 2025-01-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92380/000119312525004026/0001193125-25-004026-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92380/000119312525004026/d194515d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-004026
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-004026.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-004026.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Linda Rutherford departed as Chief Administration Officer at SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO.
  - Action: submitted her resignation
  - Role: Chief Administration Officer
  source text: On January 8, 2025, Linda Rutherford, Chief Administration Officer of the Company, submitted her resignation from the position of Chief Administration Officer, effective April 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92380/000119312525004026/0001193125-25-004026-index.htm
- Executive change
  Tammy Romo departed as Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer at SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO.
  - Action: submitted her resignation
  - Role: Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On January 7, 2025, Tammy Romo, Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Southwest Airlines Co. (the “Company”), submitted her resignation from the position of Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, effective April 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92380/000119312525004026/0001193125-25-004026-index.htm

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