UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington,  DC 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 17, 2014

 

Frontier Communications Corporation

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware 

(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)

 

 

 

001-11001

06-0619596

(Commission File Number)

(IRS Employer Identification No.)

 

 

3 High Ridge Park, Stamford,  Connecticut

06905

(Address of principal executive offices)

(Zip Code)

 

(203) 614-5600

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

_________________

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 

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 (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

 

 

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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.

                        The information referred to in “Item 8.01 Other Events” is hereby incorporated by reference herein.

Item 8.01         Other Events

                        Based upon the annual review by the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board of Directors of Frontier Communications Corporation (the “Company”) of all members of the Board for continued service, Board members Jeri B. Finard and James S. Kahan will not be standing for re-election at the Company’s next Annual Meeting of Stockholders in May 2014.

                        In addition, based upon the recommendation of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, the Board of Directors nominated Daniel J. McCarthy, the Company’s President and Chief Operating Officer, to stand for election to the Board at the Company’s next Annual Meeting of Stockholders in May 2014.


 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

FRONTIER Communications CORPORATION

 

 

Date:  February 21, 2014

By:/s/ David G. Schwartz

 

David G. Schwartz

 

Vice President, Corporate Counsel and

 

Assistant Secretary