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
February 8, 2012
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)
ATMOS ENERGY CORPORATION
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
| TEXAS AND VIRGINIA | 1-10042 | 75-1743247 | ||
| (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation) |
(Commission File Number) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) | ||
| 1800 THREE LINCOLN CENTRE, 5430 LBJ FREEWAY, DALLAS, TEXAS |
75240 | |||
| (Address of Principal Executive Offices) | (Zip Code) | |||
(972) 934-9227
(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)
Not Applicable
(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)
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Item 5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
At the company’s 2012 annual meeting of shareholders on February 8, 2012, of the 90,218,531 shares outstanding and entitled to vote, 80,948,034 shares were represented, constituting an 89.7% quorum. The final results for each of the matters submitted to a vote of shareholders at the annual meeting are as follows:
Proposal No. 1: All of the board’s nominees for director were elected by our shareholders to serve until the company’s 2013 annual meeting of shareholders or until their respective successors are elected and qualified, with the vote totals as set forth in the table below:
| Nominee |
For | Against | Abstain | Broker Non-Votes | ||||||||||||
| Kim R. Cocklin |
62,064,152 | 807,686 | 164,612 | 17,911,584 | ||||||||||||
| Richard W. Douglas |
62,452,990 | 402,547 | 180,913 | 17,911,584 | ||||||||||||
| Ruben E. Esquivel |
62,402,711 | 463,075 | 170,664 | 17,911,584 | ||||||||||||
| Richard K. Gordon |
62,272,180 | 581,706 | 182,564 | 17,911,584 | ||||||||||||
| Thomas C. Meredith |
62,221,662 | 630,336 | 184,452 | 17,911,584 | ||||||||||||
| Nancy K. Quinn |
62,486,098 | 381,959 | 168,393 | 17,911,584 | ||||||||||||
| Stephen R. Springer |
61,236,870 | 1,619,540 | 180,040 | 17,911,584 | ||||||||||||
| Richard Ware II |
61,964,119 | 889,579 | 182,752 | 17,911,584 | ||||||||||||
Proposal No. 2: The appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the company’s independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal 2012 was ratified by our shareholders, with the vote totals as set forth in the table below:
| For |
Against |
Abstain |
Broker Non-Votes | |||
| 80,108,280 | 684,266 | 155,488 | -0- |
Proposal No. 3: Our shareholders approved, on an advisory (non-binding) basis, the compensation of our named executive officers for fiscal 2011, with the vote totals as set forth in the table below:
| For |
Against |
Abstain |
Broker Non-Votes | |||
| 61,630,456 | 926,516 | 479,478 | 17,911,584 |
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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.
| ATMOS ENERGY CORPORATION (Registrant) | ||||||
| DATE: February 10, 2012 | By: | /s/ LOUIS P. GREGORY | ||||
| Louis P. Gregory | ||||||
| Senior Vice President and General Counsel | ||||||
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