---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-25-000043"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MGY"
cik: "0001698990"
company_name: "Magnolia Oil & Gas Corp"
filed_at: "2025-01-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T08:41:00.119706+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Magnolia Oil & Gas Appoints R. Lewis Ropp as Independent Director

## Summary
- Appointment effective January 7, 2025; Ropp fills a Board vacancy and serves on the Audit Committee.
- Ropp is a retired Senior Managing Director at Barrow Hanley Global Investors, with prior oil-and-gas operations and engineering experience.
- Standard non-employee director cash compensation; initial RSU award valued at ~$165k, prorated for partial service term.
- No related-party transactions or arrangements with any other person in connection with Ropp's selection.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-25-000043
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MGY
- cik: 0001698990
- company_name: Magnolia Oil & Gas Corp
- filed_at: 2025-01-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1698990/000155837025000043/0001558370-25-000043-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1698990/000155837025000043/mgy-20250107x8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001558370-25-000043
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001558370-25-000043.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001558370-25-000043.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  R. Lewis Ropp was appointed as director at Magnolia Oil & Gas Corp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: On January 7, 2025, the board of directors (the “Board”) of Magnolia Oil & Gas Corporation (the “Company”) appointed R. Lewis Ropp as a director, effective immediately
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1698990/000155837025000043/0001558370-25-000043-index.htm

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