Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-02-12
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0000092122-25-000014
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Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-02-12
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 5.02
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Item 5.02.      Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.  

On February 11, 2025, the Board of Directors of The Southern Company (the “ Company”) elected a new director, Mr. James O. (Jimmy) Etheredge, effective as of April 1, 2025. In August 2023, Mr. Etheredge retired as Chief Executive Officer - North America of Accenture plc (“ Accenture”), a position he had held since 2019. Following his retirement, Mr. Etheredge served as an advisor to Accenture until June 2024.

Committee assignments for Mr. Etheredge have not yet been determined. When available, such committee assignments will be reported by an amendment to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

No arrangement or understanding exists between Mr. Etheredge and any other person pursuant to which he was selected as a director. Mr. Etheredge will participate in the Company’s standard non-employee director cash and equity compensation program as more fully described in the Company’s Proxy Statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 12, 2024.

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

  Date: February 12, 2025      THE SOUTHERN COMPANY                           
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                               By                        /s/Melissa K. Caen   
                                                         Melissa K. Caen