Company: ADP
Filing Date: 2025-09-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001308179-25-000607
Chunk: 22

Company: AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING INC
Filing Date: 2025-09-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 22
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| Director Nomination Process |

Our nominating process ensures our board consists of a well-qualified and diverse group of leaders who bring an important mix of boardroom and operating experience. When the board of directors decides to recruit a new member, or when the board of directors considers any director candidates submitted for consideration by our stockholders, it seeks strong candidates who, ideally, meet all of its categorical standards of director independence, and who complement our identified board skillset needs. Additionally, candidates should possess the following

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| Corporate Governance |

personal characteristics: (i) business community respect for his or her integrity, ethics, principles, insights and analytical ability; and (ii) ability and initiative to frame insightful questions, speak out and challenge questionable assumptions and disagree without being disagreeable. The nominating/corporate governance committee will not consider candidates who lack the foregoing personal characteristics. To ensure that our board is composed of directors with sufficiently diverse and independent perspectives, our nominating/corporate governance committee considers a wide range of other factors in determining the composition of our board of directors, including diversity of thought, individual qualities such as professional experience, skills, education and training, and a range of types of diversity, including race, gender, ethnicity, age, culture and geography. The nominating/corporate governance committee retains a third-party search firm from time to time to identify and evaluate, as appropriate, potential nominees to the board, including in connection with the 2025 nominations of Ms. Lynch and Mr. Swan. Nominations of candidates for our board of directors by our stockholders for consideration at our 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders are subject to the deadlines and other requirements described under “Stockholder Proposals and Nominations” on page 101 of this proxy statement.

| Director Orientation and Continuing Education |

Our orientation program is structured to acquaint our new directors with our business, strategy, product portfolio, industry and competitive considerations, organizational talent, and capital structure, as well as the legal and ethical responsibilities of our board. Key members of our management team spearhead the program through a series of one-on-one sessions with each new director, with each session concentrated on a specific area of focus. As there are multiple sessions of this nature, we strive to stagger and prioritize these meetings accordingly, tailored to our directors’ profiles and committee assignments, among other things. Our program is time intensive but we believe the program is instrumental in driving