---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001298946-24-000039"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DRH"
cik: "0001298946"
company_name: "DiamondRock Hospitality Co"
filed_at: "2024-03-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T08:21:55.948563+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# DiamondRock SVP, General Counsel Bill Tennis to retire June 30, 2024

## Summary
- Bill Tennis, EVP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, retiring effective June 30, 2024.
- Tennis joined DiamondRock in 2010 and advised on strategic decisions and CEO team.
- Company engaged Heidrick & Struggles for nationwide search for a new legal counsel.
- CEO Mark Brugger thanked Tennis for contributions over 14 years.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001298946-24-000039
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DRH
- cik: 0001298946
- company_name: DiamondRock Hospitality Co
- filed_at: 2024-03-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1298946/000129894624000039/0001298946-24-000039-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1298946/000129894624000039/drh-20240319.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001298946-24-000039
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001298946-24-000039.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001298946-24-000039.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Bill Tennis departed as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at DiamondRock Hospitality Co.
  - Action: retiring
  - Role: Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
  source text: On March 19, 2024, Bill Tennis notified DiamondRock Hospitality Company (the “Company”) that he would be retiring from his position as the Company’s Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, effective as of June 30, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1298946/000129894624000039/0001298946-24-000039-index.htm

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