---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-24-010398"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SR"
cik: "0001126956"
company_name: "SPIRE INC"
filed_at: "2024-04-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T04:21:13.031150+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Spire elects Sheri S. Cook to board, expanding board to ten members

## Summary
- Board expanded from nine to ten; Sheri S. Cook elected director effective April 1, 2024.
- Cook is SVP, chief admin officer at Altec Inc.; also co-founded Kinetic Partners.
- Cook will serve on Audit Committee and Compensation and Human Resources Committee.
- Board determined Cook qualifies as independent under NYSE rules.
- Cook receives same compensation as other independent directors; no related-party transactions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-24-010398
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SR
- cik: 0001126956
- company_name: SPIRE INC
- filed_at: 2024-04-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1126956/000143774924010398/0001437749-24-010398-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1126956/000143774924010398/spre20240329_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-24-010398.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Sheri S. Cook was elected as Director at SPIRE INC.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: The Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Spire Inc. (the “Company”) announced that it increased the size of the Board from nine to ten members and elected Sheri S. Cook, age 56, to the Board effective April 1, 2024, to fill the newly created directorship resulting from the expansion of the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1126956/000143774924010398/0001437749-24-010398-index.htm

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