Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0000092122-25-000032
Chunk: 14

Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 14
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 410% threshold for stockholders to request a special meeting                                           
 4No poison pill                                                                                        |     | 412 of our 13 nominees for Director are independent                                                                                                              
 4Strong Lead Independent Director with robust authority and responsibility that is disclosed to stockholders                                                     
 4All Board committees are comprised of independent Directors and are chaired by independent Directors                                                            
 4Actively endeavors to include candidates in the pool that reflect a broad range and depth of expertise and experience relevant to our businesses and strategies |

| Stockholder Engagement                                                                                                                                                               |     | Governance Best Practices                                                                                                |
| 4Year-round stockholder outreach that includes participation of independent Directors, with feedback provided to the Board                                                           
 4Key members of senior management regularly attend investor conferences to better understand emerging issues and stockholder perspectives and to facilitate engagement opportunities 
 4Process in place for stockholders and interested parties to communicate with Lead Independent Director or other independent Directors                                               |     | 4Regular Board refreshment with nationally-recognized search firm on retainer                                            
 4Elected five new Directors in last three years                                                                          
 4Annual Board review of leadership structure and disclosure of the Board’s reasoning underlying its leadership structure 
 4Annual Board self-assessment facilitated by an independent third party and annual committee self-assessments            
 4Regular executive sessions of independent Directors                                                                     
 4Limits on the number of public company boards a Director may serve                                                      |

| Director Nominee Attributes |

#### 12Southern Company2025 Proxy Statement

#### Governance
Board of Director Nominees Qualifications, Attributes, Skills and Experience

The Nominating, Governance and Corporate Responsibility Committee establishes and regularly reviews with the Board the qualifications, attributes, skills and experience that it believes are desirable to be represented on the Board to help ensure they align with the Company’s long-term strategy. We believe our Directors possess a broad range and depth of expertise and experience to effectively oversee the Company’s operations, risks and long-term strategy. This high-level summary is not intended to be an exhaustive list of each director nominee's skills or contributions to the Board. As a result, the absence of a checkmark does not mean a director does not necessarily possess that particularly skill or experience.

|                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |     | Accounting, Finance and      
 Capital Markets              |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                 |     | CEO Experience |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                  |     | Cybersecurity       |
| Experience in accounting and financial reporting, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, developing financial plans and programs or capital allocation                                                                   |