---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001666138-22-000180"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ATKR"
cik: "0001666138"
company_name: "Atkore Inc."
filed_at: "2022-12-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T05:27:57.428200+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Atkore appoints B. Joanne Edwards to Board effective Feb 1, 2023

## Summary
- Board temporarily expanded from 9 to 10 directors; Edwards appointed to fill new seat effective Feb 1, 2023.
- Edwards brings strategic, financial, and operational experience from the electrical industry, per Chairman Mike Schrock.
- Appointment anticipates first mandatory director retirement at Jan 2024 annual meeting; board will revert to 9 members after next retirement/resignation.
- Edwards will serve initial term through 2024 annual meeting and receive standard director compensation and indemnification.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001666138-22-000180
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ATKR
- cik: 0001666138
- company_name: Atkore Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-12-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01, 7.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1666138/000166613822000180/0001666138-22-000180-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1666138/000166613822000180/atkr-20221213.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001666138-22-000180
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001666138-22-000180.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001666138-22-000180.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  B. Joanne Edwards was elected as Director at Atkore Inc..
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On December 12, 2022, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Atkore Inc. (the “Company”) temporarily increased the number of directors of the Company from nine directors to ten directors and elected B. Joanne Edwards to fill the vacancy resulting from the newly-created directorship, in each case effective February 1, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1666138/000166613822000180/0001666138-22-000180-index.htm

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