---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001206774-26-000296"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CLX"
cik: "0000021076"
company_name: "CLOROX CO /DE/"
filed_at: "2026-05-28T20:05:35+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T21:06:54.247540+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Clorox CEO Linda Rendle steps down for health reasons; board initiates search

## Summary
- Rendle will remain Chair and CEO during the search and until the new CEO is appointed.
- She will serve in an advisory role after the new CEO is named to ensure a smooth transition.
- Search led by an independent CEO search committee with support of a leading executive search firm.
- Rendle has been CEO for six years and with Clorox for over two decades; CFO Luc Bellet to attend conference June 3.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001206774-26-000296
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CLX
- cik: 0000021076
- company_name: CLOROX CO /DE/
- filed_at: 2026-05-28T20:05:35+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/21076/000120677426000296/0001206774-26-000296-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/21076/000120677426000296/clx4644261-8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001206774-26-000296
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001206774-26-000296.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001206774-26-000296.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: b9dd4b3261
  claim: Linda Rendle departed as Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer at CLOROX CO /DE/.
  evidence_excerpt: On May 26, 2026, Linda Rendle, Chair of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) and Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) of The Clorox Company (the “Company”), asked the Board to initiate a CEO search process, as she has made the decision to step down for health reasons.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/21076/000120677426000296/0001206774-26-000296-index.htm

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