Company: SFNC
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001174947-25-000476
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Company: SIMMONS FIRST NATIONAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form: DEF 14A
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549 _________________ SCHEDULE 14A _________________ Proxy Statement Pursuant to Section 14(a) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Amendment No. )

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| ☐ |     | Preliminary Proxy Statement                                                     |
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| ☒ |     | Definitive Proxy Statement                                                      |
| ☐ |     | Definitive Additional Materials                                                 |
| ☐ |     | Soliciting Material Pursuant to §240.14a-12                                     |

SIMMONS FIRST NATIONAL CORPORATION(Name of Registrant as Specified In Its Charter) _____________________________________________________________________(Name of Person(s) Filing Proxy Statement, if other than the Registrant) Payment of Filing Fee (Check all boxes that apply):

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| ☐ |     | Fee paid previously with preliminary materials                                                     |
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NOTICE OF
ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS TO THE SHAREHOLDERS OF SIMMONS FIRST NATIONAL CORPORATION: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the annual meeting of the shareholders of Simmons First National Corporation (“Company”) will be held in the auditorium of the Company’s Little Rock, Arkansas, corporate offices (601 E. 3 rd Street, Little Rock, Arkansas, 72201) at 8:00 A.M. Central Time, on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, for the following purposes: 1.To fix at 14 the number of directors to be elected at the meeting; 2.To elect 14 persons as directors to serve until the next annual shareholders’ meeting and until their successors have been duly elected and qualified; 3.To consider adoption of a non-binding resolution approving the compensation of the named executive officers of the Company; 4.To consider ratification of the Audit Committee’s selection of the accounting firm FORVIS MAZARS, LLP as independent auditors of the Company and its subsidiaries for the year