Current Report Filing (8-k)

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D. C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934



Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)	February 12, 2018



Commission File Number	Registrant, State of Incorporation, Address And Telephone Number	I.R.S. Employer Identification No.

1-3526	The Southern Company (A Delaware Corporation) 30 Ivan Allen Jr. Boulevard, N.W. Atlanta, Georgia 30308 (404) 506-5000	58-0690070

The name and address of the registrant have not changed since the last report.

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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 12, 2018, the Board of Directors of The Southern Company (the “Company”) elected a new director, Dr. Ernest J. Moniz, effective March 1, 2018. Dr. Moniz also was named a member of the Nominating, Governance and Corporate Responsibility Committee, the Operations, Environmental and Safety Committee and the Business Security Subcommittee, effective March 1, 2018.

Dr. Moniz is Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chair of the Nuclear Threat Initiative and Chief Executive Officer of Energy Futures Initiative. Dr. Moniz served as United States Secretary of Energy from 2013 to early 2017. Prior to his appointment as Secretary of Energy, Dr. Moniz was a faculty member at Massachusetts Institute of Technology for over four decades.

No arrangement or understanding exists between Dr. Moniz and any other persons pursuant to which he was selected as a director. Dr. Moniz 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 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 7, 2017.

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.