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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-26-086912"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NUE"
cik: "0000073309"
company_name: "NUCOR CORP"
filed_at: "2026-03-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-15T22:24:14.636423+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Nucor EVP Dan Needham to retire June 20, 2026 after 26-year career

## Summary
- Daniel R. Needham, Executive Vice President of Commercial, will retire effective June 20, 2026.
- Needham joined Nucor in 2000 as a plant controller and served as general manager of multiple steel mills.
- He was promoted to EVP in 2021; his retirement is voluntary and part of succession planning.
- CEO Leon Topalian thanked Needham for his leadership; no successor has been announced.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-26-086912
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NUE
- cik: 0000073309
- company_name: NUCOR CORP
- filed_at: 2026-03-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/73309/000119312526086912/0001193125-26-086912-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/73309/000119312526086912/d94870d8k.htm

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