---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-116699"
form_type: "8-K/A"
ticker: "KSS"
cik: "0000885639"
company_name: "KOHLS Corp"
filed_at: "2025-05-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T02:44:14.663143+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Director Christine Day resigns citing governance disagreements; board chair changed

## Summary
- Christine Day resigned from Kohl's board effective May 5, citing disagreements over response to ISS say-on-pay recommendation and board processes.
- Day's emails on May 8-9 detail concerns about lack of transparency, selective information sharing, and governance failures.
- Company disagrees with Day's assertions; withdrew her nomination for reelection; board reduced from 11 to 10 members.
- John E. Schlifske appointed independent Chair on May 7, replacing Interim CEO Michael J. Bender as Chair.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-116699
- form_type: 8-K/A
- ticker: KSS
- cik: 0000885639
- company_name: KOHLS Corp
- filed_at: 2025-05-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01, 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/885639/000119312525116699/0001193125-25-116699-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/885639/000119312525116699/d917496d8ka.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-116699
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-116699.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-116699.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Christine Day resigned as Director at KOHLS Corp.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: As previously disclosed, effective May 5, 2025, Christine Day informed Kohl’s Corporation (the “Company”) that she had determined to resign as a member of the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/885639/000119312525116699/0001193125-25-116699-index.htm

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