Company: ADP
Filing Date: 2025-09-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001308179-25-000607
Chunk: 19

Company: AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING INC
Filing Date: 2025-09-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 19
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 accounting, strategic planning, insurance and risk management expertise. Her international experience also provides a valuable global perspective to our board of directors.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |

| 15 | |  Automatic Data Processing, Inc. – Proxy Statement |

| Proposal 1 |

It is expected that all nominees proposed by our board of directors will be able to serve on the board if elected. However, if before the election one or more nominees is unable to serve or for good cause will not serve (a situation that we do not anticipate), the proxy holders will vote the proxies for the remaining nominees and for substitute nominees chosen by the board of directors (unless the board reduces the number of directors to be elected). If any substitute nominees are designated, we will file an amended proxy statement that, as applicable, identifies the substitute nominees, discloses that such nominees have consented to being named in the revised proxy statement and to serve if elected, and includes certain biographical and other information about such nominees required by the rules of the SEC.

| Stockholder Approval Required |

At the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, directors will be elected by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the shares represented in person or by proxy and entitled to vote thereon, provided that if the number of nominees exceeds the number of directors to be elected (a situation we do not anticipate), the directors will be elected by the vote of a plurality of the shares represented in person or by proxy and entitled to vote thereon.

| THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECOMMENDS THAT THE STOCKHOLDERS VOTEFORTHE ELECTION OF EACH OF THE NOMINEES TO THE BOARDOF DIRECTORS. |

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Corporate Governance The board of directors’ categorical standards of director independence are consistent with Nasdaq listing standards and are available in the company’s corporate governance principles on our corporate website at www.adp.com . To access these documents, click on “Investors,” then “Governance,” and then “Governance Documents.” The board of directors has determined that Mses. Haynesworth, Katsoudas, Keene, Lynch and Wijnberg and Messrs. Bisson, Goeckeler, Lynch, Powers and Swan meet these standards and are independent for purposes of the Nasdaq listing standards. All current members of the audit, compensation and management development, nominating/corporate governance, and corporate development and technology committees are independent. In the ordinary course of