---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001552781-22-000260"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WTRG"
cik: "0000078128"
company_name: "Essential Utilities, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-03-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-26T21:33:01.709960+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Director Francis Idehen to resign from Essential Utilities Board in April 2022

## Summary
- Francis Idehen intends to resign from Board in April 2022 due to new employment opportunity.
- Idehen chairs Risk Mitigation & Investment Policy Committee and serves on Audit and Executive Committees.
- Audit Committee will have three members post-resignation, meeting SEC and NYSE requirements.
- Resignation is not due to any disagreement with company operations, policies, or practices.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001552781-22-000260
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WTRG
- cik: 0000078128
- company_name: Essential Utilities, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-03-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/78128/000155278122000260/0001552781-22-000260-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/78128/000155278122000260/e22178_wtrg-8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001552781-22-000260
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001552781-22-000260.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001552781-22-000260.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Francis O. Idehen resigned as Director at Essential Utilities, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: On March 18, 2022, Francis O. Idehen, a member of the Board of Directors of Essential Utilities, Inc. (the “Company”) since 2019, informed the Company’s Chief Executive Officer that he intended to resign from the Board of Directors in connection with beginning a new employment opportunity.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/78128/000155278122000260/0001552781-22-000260-index.htm

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