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
Chunk 12
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 Youth Partners. He has also been involved with the Arkansas Ethics Commission, Jefferson County United Way, and the Arkansas Criminal Code Revision Commission. He is a Life Member of the NAACP and has served as an NAACP Legal Defense Fund Affiliate Attorney since 1978. The Board believes that Mr. Hunt’s experience as an attorney and his long -termfamiliarity with the business and social environment in southeastern Arkansas provide needed skills in, and insight into, the small business and consumer needs of the Company’s banking customers in one of its major markets, southeastern Arkansas. Jerry Hunter Mr. Hunter,72, was elected to the Board in 2017. He is Senior Counsel in the Commercial Litigation and Labor & Employment Law Client Service Groups of the international law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, where he previously was a partner from 1994 until 2020. Mr. Hunter previously served as Labor Counsel for the Kellwood Company, Director of the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, and General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board. Mr. Hunter received a bachelor’s degree in History and Government with a minor in Mathematics from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff in 1974 and a Juris Doctor degree from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri in 1977. Mr. Hunter also attended the Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University in 1987. On November 14, 2022, Mr. Hunter was elected to the Board of Directors of Missouri -AmericanWater Company. Mr. Hunter has served on the boards of the Kellwood Company, Boys Hope Girls Hope International, Associated Industries of Missouri, St. Louis Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority, U.S. Congress Office of Compliance, American Arbitration Association, Maryville University, the U.S. Senate Small Business Committee Advisory Council, and Washington University Law School Board of Advisors. The Board believes that Mr. Hunter’s experience as an attorney in senior -levelgovernmental and private -sectorroles, as well as his deep knowledge of labor and employment matters, provide needed skills and insight into the legal and regulatory environment in which the Company operates. Susan Lanigan Ms. Lanigan,62, was elected to the Board in 2017. She is on the Board of Directors of Kirkland’s Inc. (a Nasdaq -listedcompany), where she chairs the Compensation Committee. She previously served on the Board of Directors of Vi -Jon,