---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-23-025257"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SR"
cik: "0001126956"
company_name: "SPIRE INC"
filed_at: "2023-09-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T23:13:48.083116+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Spire CLO Mark Darrell to retire Dec 1, 2023 under mandatory age policy

## Summary
- Mark C. Darrell, Chief Legal and Compliance Officer, gave notice of retirement on Sept 1, 2023.
- Retirement effective December 1, 2023 due to reaching mandatory retirement age (as extended by board).
- No successor named in the filing; transition plans not disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-23-025257
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SR
- cik: 0001126956
- company_name: SPIRE INC
- filed_at: 2023-09-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1126956/000143774923025257/0001437749-23-025257-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1126956/000143774923025257/spre20230830_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-23-025257
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-23-025257.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-23-025257.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Mark C. Darrell departed as Chief Legal and Compliance Officer at SPIRE INC.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Chief Legal and Compliance Officer
  source text: On September 1, 2023, Mark C. Darrell, Chief Legal and Compliance Officer of Spire Inc. (the “Company”), gave the required notice that he will retire on December 1, 2023, due to reaching the mandatory retirement age (as extended by the Company’s board of directors with respect to Mr. Darrell) for officers of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1126956/000143774923025257/0001437749-23-025257-index.htm

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