Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

On and effective March 5, 2021, the Board of Trustees (the "Board") of Corporate Office Properties Trust (the "Company") approved an increase in the Board's size from nine members to ten members, and also elected Raymond L. Owens, age 62, to the Board. Mr. Owens' term on the Board will expire at the Company's upcoming 2021 annual shareholder meeting, at which time he will stand for re-election. Effective upon joining the Board, Mr. Owens became eligible to receive the standard compensation provided by the Company to its other non-employee Trustees, as most recently disclosed in the Company's proxy statement for its 2020 annual meeting of shareholders.

Mr. Owens retired after serving from 2007 to 2017, most recently as the Chief Investment Officer and Executive Vice President of Capital Markets, at Piedmont Office Realty Trust (NYSE: PDM), an owner, manager, developer, redeveloper and operator of Class A office properties located primarily in select sub-markets within seven major Eastern U.S. office markets.




Item 9.01.       Financial Statements and Exhibits
Exhibit Number                                              Exhibit Title
  99.1                         Press Release dated     March 8, 2021    .
104                          Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL
                             document).

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