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<title>lnc-20250303</title></head><body><div style="display:none"><ix:header><ix:hidden><ix:nonNumeric contextRef="c-1" name="dei:EntityCentralIndexKey" id="f-24">0000059558</ix:nonNumeric><ix:nonNumeric contextRef="c-1" name="dei:AmendmentFlag" format="ixt:fixed-false" id="f-25">FALSE</ix:nonNumeric><ix:nonNumeric contextRef="c-1" name="dei:CurrentFiscalYearEndDate" format="ixt:date-month-day" id="f-26">12-31</ix:nonNumeric></ix:hidden><ix:references xml:lang="en-US"><link:schemaRef xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="lnc-20250303.xsd"/></ix:references><ix:resources><xbrli:context id="c-1"><xbrli:entity><xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0000059558</xbrli:identifier></xbrli:entity><xbrli:period><xbrli:startDate>2025-03-03</xbrli:startDate><xbrli:endDate>2025-03-03</xbrli:endDate></xbrli:period></xbrli:context><xbrli:context id="c-2"><xbrli:entity><xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0000059558</xbrli:identifier><xbrli:segment><xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementClassOfStockAxis">us-gaap:CommonStockMember</xbrldi:explicitMember></xbrli:segment></xbrli:entity><xbrli:period><xbrli:startDate>2025-03-03</xbrli:startDate><xbrli:endDate>2025-03-03</xbrli:endDate></xbrli:period></xbrli:context><xbrli:context id="c-3"><xbrli:entity><xbrli:identifier scheme="http://www.sec.gov/CIK">0000059558</xbrli:identifier><xbrli:segment><xbrldi:explicitMember dimension="us-gaap:StatementClassOfStockAxis">us-gaap:SeriesDPreferredStockMember</xbrldi:explicitMember></xbrli:segment></xbrli:entity><xbrli:period><xbrli:startDate>2025-03-03</xbrli:startDate><xbrli:endDate>2025-03-03</xbrli:endDate></xbrli:period></xbrli:context></ix:resources></ix:header></div><div id="i577cf1496ea44d3bb1a86baa39ead84a_1"></div><div style="min-height:36pt;width:100%"><div><span><br/></span></div></div><div style="-sec-extract:summary;margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">UNITED STATES<br/>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION<br/>Washington, D.C. 20549</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">FORM <ix:nonNumeric contextRef="c-1" name="dei:DocumentType" id="f-1">8-K</ix:nonNumeric></span></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">CURRENT REPORT</span></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934</span></div><div><span><br/></span></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline"><ix:nonNumeric contextRef="c-1" name="dei:DocumentPeriodEndDate" format="ixt:date-monthname-day-year-en" id="f-2">March 3, 2025</ix:nonNumeric></span></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)</span></div><div><span><br/></span></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; 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style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><span><br/></span></div></div></div><div id="i577cf1496ea44d3bb1a86baa39ead84a_7"></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"/><div style="min-height:36pt;width:100%"><div><span><br/></span></div></div><div style="-sec-extract:summary"><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%">Item 5.02.  Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.</span></div><div><span><br/></span></div><div><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">On March 3, 2025, the Board of Directors (the &#8220;Board&#8221;) of Lincoln National Corporation (the &#8220;Corporation&#8221; or &#8220;LNC&#8221;) approved an increase to the size of the Board effective the same date (as further discussed below under Item 5.03) and elected James Morris to serve as a new director on the Board effective March 3, 2025, for a term to end at the Corporation&#8217;s 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. Effective the same date, Mr. Morris was appointed to the Compensation Committee and the Finance Committee of the Board.  Mr. Morris is the retired Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Life Insurance Company.</span></div><div><span><br/></span></div><div><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">Pursuant to the Corporation&#8217;s Corporate Governance Guidelines, the Board determined that Mr. Morris is independent, meeting the NYSE listing standards regarding independence incorporated in the guidelines, and that he further satisfies the heightened standards of independence to serve as a member of the Compensation Committee of the Board. </span></div><div><span><br/></span></div><div><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Mr. Morris was not selected as a director pursuant to any arrangements or understandings with the Corporation or with any other person, and there are no transactions between the Corporation and Mr. Morris that would require disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.</span></div><div><span><br/></span></div><div><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Mr. Morris will be compensated in accordance with the Corporation&#8217;s non-employee director compensation practices described in the Corporation&#8217;s Proxy Statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 11, 2024.  This compensation generally consists of an annual retainer in the amount of $290,000, of which $180,000 is paid in deferred stock units tied to the Corporation&#8217;s common stock.  The annual retainer for Mr. Morris for the remainder of 2025 will be pro-rated accordingly.</span></div><div><span><br/></span></div><div><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">A copy of the Corporation's press release announcing Mr. Morris&#8217;s election is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.</span></div><div><span><br/></span></div><div><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:112%">Item 5.03. Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.</span></div><div><span><br/></span></div><div><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">The Board approved an amendment to the Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company (the &#8220;Bylaws&#8221;), effective March 3, 2025, to modify the language in Article II, Section 1 of the Bylaws to increase the number of authorized Board members from ten to eleven.</span></div><div><span><br/></span></div><div><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">The foregoing summary of the Bylaws does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Bylaws attached hereto as Exhibit 3.1 and incorporated herein by reference.</span></div><div><span><br/></span></div><div><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Item 9.01.  Financial Statements and Exhibits.</span></div><div><span><br/></span></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:72pt;text-indent:-36pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">(d)</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;padding-left:23.18pt">Exhibits.  </span></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:86.666%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"/><td style="width:14.284%"/><td style="width:0.1%"/><td style="width:1.0%"/><td style="width:83.516%"/><td style="width:0.1%"/></tr><tr style="height:15pt"><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><div style="padding-left:3.35pt;padding-right:3.35pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Exhibit</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:2.7pt;padding-left:3.35pt;padding-right:3.35pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">Number</span></div></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">Description</span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt 2px 4.37pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">3.1</span></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="padding-left:3.37pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline"><a style="-sec-extract:exhibit;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline" href="exhibit311.htm">Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company, effective </a><a style="-sec-extract:exhibit;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline" href="exhibit311.htm">March</a><a style="-sec-extract:exhibit;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline" href="exhibit311.htm"> 3</a><a style="-sec-extract:exhibit;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline" href="exhibit311.htm">, 2025.</a></span></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt 2px 4.37pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">99.1</span></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="padding-left:3.37pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline"><a style="-sec-extract:exhibit;color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline" href="ex991_3425.htm">Press Release dated March 4, 2025.</a></span></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt 2px 4.37pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">104</span></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt 2px 4.37pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document).</span></td></tr></table></div><div><span><br/></span></div><div><span><br/></span></div><div><span><br/></span></div><div style="height:36pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><span><br/></span></div></div></div><div id="i577cf1496ea44d3bb1a86baa39ead84a_10"></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"/><div style="min-height:36pt;width:100%"><div><span><br/></span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">SIGNATURES</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">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.</span></div><div style="text-indent:252pt"><span><br/></span></div><div><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:100.000%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"/><td style="width:10.778%"/><td style="width:0.1%"/><td style="width:1.0%"/><td style="width:10.778%"/><td style="width:0.1%"/><td style="width:1.0%"/><td style="width:10.778%"/><td style="width:0.1%"/><td style="width:1.0%"/><td style="width:10.778%"/><td style="width:0.1%"/><td style="width:1.0%"/><td style="width:7.601%"/><td style="width:0.1%"/><td style="width:1.0%"/><td style="width:42.687%"/><td style="width:0.1%"/></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="6" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">LINCOLN NATIONAL CORPORATION</span></td></tr><tr style="height:15pt"><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">By</span></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">/s/ Nancy A. Smith</span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Name:</span></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Nancy A. Smith</span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"/><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Title:</span></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Senior Vice President and Secretary</span></td></tr></table></div><div style="text-indent:252pt"><span><br/></span></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:252pt"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:1pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span><br/></span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Date: March 4, 2025</span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span><br/></span></div><div><span><br/></span></div><div style="height:36pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><span><br/></span></div></div></div></body></html>
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lnc-20250303
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
March 3, 2025
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)
Lincoln National Corporation
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Indiana
1-6028
35-1140070
(State or other jurisdiction
(Commission
(IRS Employer
of incorporation)
File Number)
Identification No.)
150 N. Radnor Chester Road
,
Radnor
,
PA
19087
(Address of principal executive offices)  (Zip Code)
Registrant's telephone number, including area code:
(
484
)
583-1400
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:
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Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
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Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
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Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
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Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of each class
Trading symbol(s)
Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock
LNC
New York Stock Exchange
Depositary Shares, each representing a 1/1000
th
interest in a share of 9.000% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series D
LNC PRD
New York Stock Exchange
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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).
Emerging growth company
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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.
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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 March 3, 2025, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Lincoln National Corporation (the "Corporation" or "LNC") approved an increase to the size of the Board effective the same date (as further discussed below under Item 5.03) and elected James Morris to serve as a new director on the Board effective March 3, 2025, for a term to end at the Corporation's 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. Effective the same date, Mr. Morris was appointed to the Compensation Committee and the Finance Committee of the Board.  Mr. Morris is the retired Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Life Insurance Company.
Pursuant to the Corporation's Corporate Governance Guidelines, the Board determined that Mr. Morris is independent, meeting the NYSE listing standards regarding independence incorporated in the guidelines, and that he further satisfies the heightened standards of independence to serve as a member of the Compensation Committee of the Board.
Mr. Morris was not selected as a director pursuant to any arrangements or understandings with the Corporation or with any other person, and there are no transactions between the Corporation and Mr. Morris that would require disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
Mr. Morris will be compensated in accordance with the Corporation's non-employee director compensation practices described in the Corporation's Proxy Statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 11, 2024.  This compensation generally consists of an annual retainer in the amount of $290,000, of which $180,000 is paid in deferred stock units tied to the Corporation's common stock.  The annual retainer for Mr. Morris for the remainder of 2025 will be pro-rated accordingly.
A copy of the Corporation's press release announcing Mr. Morris's election is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.
Item 5.03. Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.
The Board approved an amendment to the Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company (the "Bylaws"), effective March 3, 2025, to modify the language in Article II, Section 1 of the Bylaws to increase the number of authorized Board members from ten to eleven.
The foregoing summary of the Bylaws does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Bylaws attached hereto as Exhibit 3.1 and incorporated herein by reference.
Item 9.01.  Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d)
Exhibits.
Exhibit
Number
Description
3.1
Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company, effective
March
3
, 2025.
99.1
Press Release dated March 4, 2025.
104
Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document).
SIGNATURES
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.
LINCOLN NATIONAL CORPORATION
By
/s/ Nancy A. Smith
Name:
Nancy A. Smith
Title:
Senior Vice President and Secretary
Date: March 4, 2025