Company: JACK
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000807882-25-000004
Chunk: 26

Company: JACK IN THE BOX INC
Filing Date: 2025-01-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 26
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 with Management and reports to the Board major risk exposures in connection with matters overseen by the Committee. Its activities include:

| • |     | evaluating director candidates for nomination; |

| • |     | evaluating the appropriate Board size; |

| • |     | reviewing and recommending corporate governance guidelines to the Board; |

| • |     | providing oversight with respect to the annual evaluation of Board, Committee and individual director performance; |

| • |     | overseeing the Company’s political and charitable contributions; |

| • |     | assisting the Board in its oversight of the Company’s insider trading compliance program; |

| • |     | recommending director education; and |

| • |     | overseeing the Company’s corporate responsibility and sustainability strategy, initiatives, and policies. |

All nominees for election as directors currently serve on the Board of Directors and are known to the Nominating and Governance Committee in that capacity. The Nominating and Governance Committee held four meetings in fiscal 2024. 24 JACK IN THE BOX INC. | 2025 PROXY STATEMENT

| CORPORATE GOVERNANCE |

Committee Member Independence ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Board has determined that each member of the Audit, Compensation, and Nominating and Governance Committees is an independent director for purposes of the NASDAQ Listing Rules as well as under the additional Director Independence Guidelines adopted by the Board. In addition, the members of the Audit Committee are all independent as required under Rule 10A-3(b)(1)(ii) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and the members of the Compensation Committee meet the definitions of (i) a “non-employee director” within the meaning of Rule 16b-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, (ii) an “outside director” within the meaning of Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (“IRC”), and (iii) the requirements of Rule 10C-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Executive Sessions ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Our independent, non-employee Directors meet in executive session without Management present at each regularly scheduled meeting of the Board. Mr. Goebel leads such executive sessions in his role as Non-Executive Chairman. The Audit Committee also holds executive sessions at each regularly scheduled meeting, and the other Committees of the Board meet in executive session as they deem appropriate. Board Composition and Refreshment ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Policy Regarding Consideration of Director Candidates and Makeup and Diversity