---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-051069"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KELYA"
cik: "0000055135"
company_name: "KELLY SERVICES INC"
filed_at: "2025-03-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T02:19:34.756867+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Kelly Services CAO Laura Lockhart to retire by Dec 31, 2025; search underway

## Summary
- Laura Lockhart, VP, Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller, plans to retire effective Dec 31, 2025 or upon successor's appointment.
- Retirement not due to any dispute or disagreement with the company, including accounting or reporting matters.
- Company will conduct a search for successor, considering internal and external candidates.
- Lockhart expected to remain as employee after successor appointment to assist with transition.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-051069
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KELYA
- cik: 0000055135
- company_name: KELLY SERVICES INC
- filed_at: 2025-03-10T23:59:59+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/55135/000119312525051069/0001193125-25-051069-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/55135/000119312525051069/d915003d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-051069
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-051069.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Laura Lockhart departed as Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer, and Corporate Controller at KELLY SERVICES INC.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer, and Corporate Controller
  source text: On March 6, 2025, Laura Lockhart, Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer, and Corporate Controller of Kelly Services, Inc. (the “Company”), informed the Company of her intention to retire as an officer effective December 31, 2025, or upon the appointment of her successor, if earlier.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/55135/000119312525051069/0001193125-25-051069-index.htm

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