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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. |
Tejon Ranch Co. has appointed Marc W. Hardy as Senior Vice President and General Counsel. Mr. Hardy will join the Company on May 10, 2021 and will oversee all of the Company’s legal work.
Mr. Hardy is currently Of Counsel with the Buchalter Law Firm in Irvine, California, a position he has held since July 2020. Prior to working at Buchalter, Mr. Hardy worked for 19 years with the A.G. Spanos Companies. For most of those years Mr. Hardy served as the General Counsel for the A.G. Spanos Companies.
Mr. Hardy’s areas of legal practice have included: Real Estate and Land Use; Corporate Law/Entity Formation; Lending/Finance; Litigation and Risk Management; and Labor issues.
Mr. Hardy earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Davis and his Juris Doctorate from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law.
| Item 9.01 | Financial Statements and Exhibits |
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| 99.1 | Press Release of the Company dated April 23, 2021, announcing the Company’s appointment of a new Senior Vice President and General Counsel. | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101). | |
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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.
| Date: April 23, 2021 | TEJON RANCH CO. | |||||
| By: | /S/ ALLEN E. LYDA | |||||
| Name: | Allen E. Lyda | |||||
| Title: | Executive Vice President, and Chief Operating Officer | |||||
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