Prepared By R.R. Donnelley Financial -- 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
 
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):  11/03/2005
 
MOLINA HEALTHCARE, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
Commission File Number:  001-31719
 
DE
  
134204626
(State or other jurisdiction of
  
(IRS Employer
incorporation)
  
Identification No.)
 
One Golden Shore Drive
Long Beach, CA 90802-4202
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)
 
562 435 3666
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
 
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
 
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Information to be included in the report

 
Item 5.02.    Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Principal Officers
 
Effective November 4, 2005, Steven Orlando was elected as a Class III director by the Company's Board of Directors. The term of the Company's Class III directors will expire at the Company's 2008 annual meeting. Mr. Orlando, age 54, has over 30 years of business and corporate finance experience. From 1988 to 1994 and from 2000 to the present, Mr. Orlando has operated his own management and business consulting practice, Orlando Consulting. From 1997 to 2000, he served as the chief financial officer of System Integrators, Inc., an international software company. Mr. Orlando has served on multiple corporate boards, including serving as chairman of the audit committee for a Nasdaq-listed corporation. Mr. Orlando is a certified public accountant. There are no arrangements or understandings between Mr. Orlando and the Company or its officers or directors pursuant to which Mr. Orlando was selected as a director.

Effective November 7, 2005, Terry P. Bayer has been appointed as the Company's Chief Operating Officer. She had formerly served as the Company's Executive Vice President, Health Plan Operations. In addition to her oversight of the operations of the Company's health plans, Ms. Bayer will also assume responsibility for the Company's Shared Services unit which will continue to be led by Sheila Shapiro, Executive Vice President, Shared Services. The employment of Ms. Bayer is not subject to an employment agreement.

On November 3, 2005, George S. Goldstein, Ph.D., a Class I Company director, gave notice to the Board of Directors that he is resigning from the Board effective immediately. He also resigned his executive position. Mr. Goldstein will remain affiliated with the Company as a special advisor to the Chairman of the Board, and as a member of the board of the Company's New Mexico subsidiary.   

 

 

Signature(s)
 
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.
 
      
 
MOLINA HEALTHCARE, INC.
 
 
Date: November 09, 2005
     
By:
 
/s/    Mark L. Andrews
               
Mark L. Andrews
               
Executive Vice President, General Counsel