Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000092122-25-000036
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Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: DEF 14A
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 orientation experience to inform them on the current risks and opportunities facing the Company through individual meetings with senior executives responsible for the Company's major lines of business and operations. The Company schedules site visits across the footprint upon request for new Directors to learn directly from our subject matter experts. Directors learn about our corporate governance practices and policies; the financial and technical aspects of our electric utility and natural gas operations, including our nuclear generation facilities; the complex regulatory frameworks in which many of our major subsidiaries operate; our enterprise risk management process and the significant risks facing the Company; and our long-term strategy to deliver clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy to our electric and natural gas customers.

New Directors are encouraged to attend all committee meetings to familiarize themselves with the types of matters reported on during each committee's meeting.

Following the onboarding process, Directors are encouraged to participate in continuous learning in an effort to promote the investment in knowledge on matters relevant to the Company. On a periodic basis, we provide our Directors with suggested educational courses on topics including emerging governance issues, compliance and ethics matters, financial and risk oversight and industry-specific subjects. To facilitate ongoing education by our Directors, we pay the costs for registration, tuition and related travel and lodging expenses.

#### Communicating with The Board
We encourage stockholders or interested parties to communicate directly with the Board, the independent Directors or the individual Directors, including the Lead Independent Director.

4 Communications may be sent to the Board as a whole, to the independent Directors or to specified Directors, including the Lead Independent Director, by regular mail or electronic mail.

4 Regular mail should be sent to our principal executive offices, to the attention of the Corporate Secretary, Southern Company, 30 Ivan Allen Jr. Boulevard NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30308.

4 Electronic mail should be directed to corpgov@southernco.com . Stockholders may also contact the Board using the online form located in the Corporate Governance section of our website at investor.southerncompany.com .

With the exception of commercial solicitations, all communications directed to the Board or to specified Directors will be relayed to them.

#### Southern Company2025 Proxy Statement17
Governance Biographical Information about our Nominees for Director

|                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |     | Janaki Akella                                    
 Former Digital Transformation Leader, Google LLC |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
|                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |     | Age: 64                                          
 Director since:                                  
 January 2019                                     |     | Board committees: Audit; Business Security and Resiliency