---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-023131"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VZ"
cik: "0000732712"
company_name: "VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC"
filed_at: "2025-02-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T00:39:08.189259+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Verizon director Rodney E. Slater will not seek re-election at 2025 annual meeting

## Summary
- Rodney E. Slater informed Verizon on Feb 5, 2025 that he will not stand for re-election.
- His term expires at Verizon's 2025 annual shareholder meeting; departure is voluntary.
- No replacement has been announced; Board composition will be updated in proxy.
- Slater's departure is not due to any disagreement with Verizon's operations or policies.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-023131
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VZ
- cik: 0000732712
- company_name: VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC
- filed_at: 2025-02-10T23:59:59+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/732712/000119312525023131/0001193125-25-023131-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/732712/000119312525023131/d851599d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-023131
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-023131.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-023131.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Rodney E. Slater departed as Director at VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC.
  - Action: will not stand for re-election
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 5, 2025, Rodney E. Slater, a member of the Board of Directors of Verizon Communications Inc. (Verizon), informed Verizon that he will not stand for re-election when his term expires at Verizon’s 2025 annual meeting of shareholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/732712/000119312525023131/0001193125-25-023131-index.htm

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