---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001527541-24-000160"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WHLR"
cik: "0001527541"
company_name: "Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-08-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T10:01:33.281634+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Wheeler REIT elects Rebecca Musser to Board and Audit Committee

## Summary
- Rebecca Musser elected director effective August 8, 2024; serves until 2025 annual meeting.
- Appointed to the Audit Committee; Board determined she is independent under Nasdaq and SEC rules.
- Compensation follows standard non-employee director policies as described in March 2024 proxy statement.
- No material interest in any reportable transactions or arrangements per Item 404(a).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001527541-24-000160
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WHLR
- cik: 0001527541
- company_name: Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-08-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1527541/000152754124000160/0001527541-24-000160-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1527541/000152754124000160/whlr-20240808.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001527541-24-000160
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001527541-24-000160.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Rebecca Musser was elected as director at Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc..
  - Action: elected
  - Role: director
  source text: On August 8, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc. (the “Company”) voted to elect Rebecca Musser as a director of the Company and to appoint her to the Audit Committee of the Board (the “Audit Committee”), effective as of August 8, 2024, to serve until the Company’s 2025 annual meeting of stockholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1527541/000152754124000160/0001527541-24-000160-index.htm

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