---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001261654-23-000107"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "UTI"
cik: "0001261654"
company_name: "UNIVERSAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INC"
filed_at: "2023-12-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T16:53:55.673252+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Appoints Christine Kline as Chief Accounting Officer effective Dec 4, 2023

## Summary
- Christine Kline, age 45, appointed Chief Accounting Officer and principal accounting officer.
- Kline previously served as VP, Corporate Controller since February 2020.
- Before UTI, she was Director of Financial Reporting at Nuverra Environmental Solutions.
- Kline is a CPA and started her career at Deloitte & Touche LLP.
- No family relationships or reportable transactions with the company.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001261654-23-000107
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: UTI
- cik: 0001261654
- company_name: UNIVERSAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INC
- filed_at: 2023-12-06T23:59:59+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/1261654/000126165423000107/0001261654-23-000107-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1261654/000126165423000107/uti-20231204.htm

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- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001261654-23-000107.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001261654-23-000107.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Christine Kline was appointed as Chief Accounting Officer at UNIVERSAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: has appointed Christine Kline to the position of Chief Accounting Officer, effective December 4, 2023
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1261654/000126165423000107/0001261654-23-000107-index.htm

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