---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001410636-25-000044"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AWK"
cik: "0001410636"
company_name: "American Water Works Company, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-02-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T05:42:32.959995+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# American Water Works EVP & CHRO Melanie Kennedy to depart effective March 1, 2025

## Summary
- Melanie M. Kennedy, EVP & Chief Human Resources Officer, will separate from service effective March 1, 2025.
- Separation is subject to terms of the Company's Executive Severance Policy.
- Kennedy joined American Water Works in 2007; no replacement announced.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001410636-25-000044
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AWK
- cik: 0001410636
- company_name: American Water Works Company, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-02-24T23:59:59+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/1410636/000141063625000044/0001410636-25-000044-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1410636/000141063625000044/awk-20250222.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001410636-25-000044
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001410636-25-000044.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001410636-25-000044.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Melanie M. Kennedy departed as Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at American Water Works Company, Inc..
  - Action: agreed to a separation from service
  - Role: Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer
  source text: On February 22, 2025 , American Water Works Company, Inc. (the “Company”) agreed to a separation from service with Melanie M. Kennedy, Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer and a named executive officer of the Company, effective March 1, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1410636/000141063625000044/0001410636-25-000044-index.htm

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