---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001410636-25-000054"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AWK"
cik: "0001410636"
company_name: "American Water Works Company, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-02-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T22:51:04.567396+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 Kennedy to depart March 1; severance disclosed

## Summary
- Separation effective March 1, 2025; 12 months base salary severance of $487,953.
- Prorated 2025 annual bonus at 65% of base salary through separation date.
- Supplemental cash payment of $300,000; COBRA coverage extended by up to 8 months.
- Agreement requires general release, non-solicitation, non-disparagement, and confidentiality.
- Severance includes eligible benefits under Company's Executive Severance Policy.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001410636-25-000054
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AWK
- cik: 0001410636
- company_name: American Water Works Company, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-02-28T23:59:59+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/1410636/000141063625000054/0001410636-25-000054-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1410636/000141063625000054/awk-20250228.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001410636-25-000054.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: departed
  - Role: Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer
  source text: On February 28, 2025 , the Executive Development and Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of American Water Works Company, Inc. (the “Company”) unanimously approved a Severance Agreement and General Release (the “Severance Agreement”) to be entered into between Melanie M. Kennedy, the Company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, and American Water Works Service Company, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company and Ms. Kennedy’s employer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1410636/000141063625000054/0001410636-25-000054-index.htm

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