---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-24-043862"
form_type: "8-K/A"
ticker: "FWRD"
cik: "0000912728"
company_name: "FORWARD AIR CORP"
filed_at: "2024-10-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-30T09:54:53.808552+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Forward Air appoints Jerome Lorrain to board and compensation committee

## Summary
- Jerome Lorrain appointed to Board effective October 1, 2024.
- Lorrain added to Compensation Committee on October 22, 2024.
- Filing is an amendment solely to report committee assignment; prior 8-K otherwise unchanged.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-24-043862
- form_type: 8-K/A
- ticker: FWRD
- cik: 0000912728
- company_name: FORWARD AIR CORP
- filed_at: 2024-10-28T23:59:59+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/912728/000162828024043862/0001628280-24-043862-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912728/000162828024043862/fwrd-20240930.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-24-043862.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-24-043862.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jerome Lorrain was appointed as Director at FORWARD AIR CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: As previously reported in the Original 8-K, the Board appointed Mr. Jerome Lorrain to the Board effective October 1, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912728/000162828024043862/0001628280-24-043862-index.htm

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