Company: GDV-PK
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001133228-25-002931
Chunk: 19

Company: GABELLI DIVIDEND & INCOME TRUST
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 19
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, and Zizza. Each Nominating Committee Member
is an Independent Trustee as determined under guidelines of the NYSE. The Nominating Committee met once during the fiscal year ended December31, 2024. The Nominating Committee is responsible for identifying and recommending
qualified candidates to the Board in the event that a position is vacated or created. In considering candidates submitted by shareholders,
the Nominating Committee will take into consideration the needs of the Board, the qualifications of the candidate, and the interests
of shareholders. The Nominating Committee may also take into consideration the number of shares held by the recommending shareholder
and the length of time that such shares have been held. To recommend a candidate

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for consideration by the Nominating
Committee, a shareholder must submit the recommendation in writing and must include the following information in addition to any information
required by the Fund’s By-Laws:

| • | The                                                                                  
 name of the shareholder and evidence of the shareholder’s ownership of shares of the 
 Fund, including the number of shares owned and the length of time of ownership;      |

| • | The                                                                                        
 name of the candidate, the candidate’s resume or a listing of his or her qualifications    
 to be a Trustee of the Fund, and the person’s consent to be named as a Trustee if selected 
 by the Nominating Committee and nominated by the Board of Trustees; and                    |

| • | If                                                                                     
 requested by the Nominating Committee, a completed and signed trustee’s questionnaire. |

In addition, the Nominating Committee
may request any additional information it deems necessary, relevant or desirable to discharge its responsibility to review the qualifications,
skills, qualities and other relevant factors of any trustee nominee recommended by a shareholder, and shareholders recommending a trustee
candidate for nomination by the Nominating Committee are encouraged to provide all other information that would be required to be submitted
under the Fund’s Declaration of Trust and By-Laws in the event such shareholders were nominating such trustee candidate for election
on their own.

The shareholder recommendation
and information described above must be sent to the Fund’s Secretary, c/o Gabelli Funds, LLC, One Corporate Center, Rye, NY 10580-1422,
and must be received by the Secretary not less than 120 days prior to the anniversary date of the Fund’s most recent annual meeting
of shareholders or, if the meeting has moved by more than 30 days, a reasonable amount of time