Company: SFNC
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form Type: DEFR14A
Source: 0001174947-25-000480
Chunk: 25

Company: SIMMONS FIRST NATIONAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form: DEFR14A
Chunk 25
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 | Attention: (Chairman or Specific Director) |
|                                        |     | P. O. Box 7009                             |
|                                        |     | Pine Bluff, Arkansas 71611                 |

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NOMINATING AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE The NCGC is currently composed of Steven Cossé (Chair), Edward Drilling, Susan Lanigan, Tom Purvis, and Robert L. Shoptaw. The Board appoints each member of the NCGC and has determined that each member is, and each member who served during 2024 was, independent in accordance with the NASDAQ listing rules. A function of the NCGC regarding nominations is to identify and recommend individuals to be presented for election or re -electionas directors of the Company. Director Nominations and Qualifications The Board is responsible for recommending nominees for directors to the shareholders for election at the annual shareholders’ meeting. The Board has delegated the identification and evaluation of proposed director nominees to the NCGC. The NCGC charter, which is available for review within the “Investor Relations” page of the Company’s web site, www.simmonsbank.com(under “ESG — Governance — Governance Documents”), the Company’s by -laws, and certain corporate governance principles and procedures govern the nominations and criteria for proposing or recommending proposed nominees for election and re -electionto the Board and its subsidiaries. The identification of potential directors and the evaluation of existing and potential directors is a continuing responsibility of the NCGC. The NCGC has not retained any third party to assist it in performing its duties. A proposed director may be recommended to the Board at any time; however, director nominations by shareholders must be made in accordance with the procedures set forth in the Company’s by -lawsand described in this proxy statement under the heading “ Proposals for 2026 Annual Meeting.” The NCGC has not set any minimum qualifications for a proposed nominee to be eligible for recommendation to be elected as a director of the Company. The corporate governance principles provide that the NCGC shall consider the following criteria, without any specified priority or weighting, in evaluating proposed nominees for director:

| •   Geographic location of residence and business interests |     | •   Type of business interests                     |
| •   Age                                                     |     | •   Business and financial expertise               |
| •   Community involvement                                   |     | •   Leadership profile                             |
| •   Ability to think independently                          |     | •   Personal and professional ethics and