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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001564590-21-056522"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SR"
cik: "0001126956"
company_name: "SPIRE INC"
filed_at: "2021-11-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T08:56:20.665283+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Spire adds Carrie Hightman to board, adopts plurality voting and director resignation policy

## Summary
- Board expanded from nine to ten members; Carrie Hightman elected effective Nov 11, 2021.
- Hightman retired as EVP and chief legal officer of NiSource, former CEO of Columbia Gas of Massachusetts.
- Bylaws amended: plurality voting in contested elections, majority resignation requirement for directors.
- Bylaws also replace 'chairman' with 'chair' and allow board to set annual meeting time.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001564590-21-056522
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SR
- cik: 0001126956
- company_name: SPIRE INC
- filed_at: 2021-11-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1126956/000156459021056522/0001564590-21-056522-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1126956/000156459021056522/sr-8k_20211111.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001564590-21-056522
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001564590-21-056522.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001564590-21-056522.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Carrie J. Hightman was elected as Director at SPIRE INC.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: The Board of Directors of Spire Inc. announced that it increased the size of the Board from nine to ten members effective November 11, 2021 and elected Carrie J. Hightman, age 64, to the Board of Directors effective November 11, 2021 to fill the vacancy created by increasing the size of the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1126956/000156459021056522/0001564590-21-056522-index.htm

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