Darling Ingredients Inc.  announced that long-time board member Mary Korby has informed the board that she plans to retire, effective at the company's 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Ms. Korby will remain a director and maintain her committee memberships through the 2023 Annual Meeting. Separately, the company also announced that Larry A. Barden, former Chairman of the Management Committee of Sidley Austin LLP, has been elected to the board as an independent director, effective immediately; expanding the total number of directors on the board to 11.

Mr. Barden will serve on the board's Environmental, Social and Governance Committee. Ms. Korby joined the Darling Ingredients board in 2014 following a long and distinguished legal career as a partner at both Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and K&L Gates LLP. Mr. Barden is a retired partner of Sidley Austin LLP, an international law firm.

He served as Chairman of Sidley's Management Committee from April 2014 until April 2022 and was a member of the Executive Committee from 1999 through April 2022. Mr. Barden's principal areas of practice were mergers and acquisitions, securities/corporate finance and strategic counseling/corporate governance. He also serves on the boards of various civic and educational organizations.