Edgar Filing: ATMOS ENERGY CORP

ATMOS ENERGY CORPORATION

(Registrant)

DATE: February 10, 2012

/s/ LOUIS P. GREGORY

Louis P. Gregory

Senior Vice President and General Counsel

Form 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

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)

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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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

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.