Company: CRK
Filing Date: 2025-04-22
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-056747
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Company: COMSTOCK RESOURCES INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-22
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 12
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 attention of the corporate governance/nominating committee, regardless of who recommended such candidate, is considered on the basis of the criteria set forth in our corporate governance guidelines. Stockholders suggesting director candidates for consideration by our Board in connection with the next annual meeting of stockholders must provide their submission in accordance with the procedures set forth in our bylaws and under the heading "Stockholder Proposals and Nominations for the 2026 Annual Meeting" herein.

Director Nominees

The corporate governance/nominating committee has recommended, and the Board has nominated, the following for election as directors. If any director nominee is unable or unwilling for good cause to serve as a nominee at the time of the Annual Meeting, the persons named as proxies may vote either (1) for a substitute nominee designated by the present Board to fill the vacancy, or (2) for the balance of the nominees, leaving a vacancy. Alternatively, the Board may reduce the size of the Board. The Board has no reason to believe that any of the nominees will be unwilling or unable to serve if elected as a director.

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Biographical information concerning the current directors standing for re-election, including their ages as of April 22, 2025, appears below.

| M. Jay Allison                                                           |
| Director, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer |

Mr. Allison, age 69, has been our Chief Executive Officer since 1988. Mr. Allison was elected Chairman of the Board in 1997 and has been a director on our Board since 1987. From 1988 to 2013, Mr. Allison served as our President. From 1981 to 1987, he was a practicing oil and gas attorney with the firm of Lynch, Chappell & Alsup in Midland, Texas. Mr. Allison has 37 years of executive leadership experience in the oil and gas industry and is currently the longest tenured CEO in the oil and gas industry. Mr. Allison combines his educational background in business and in commercial law, along with his entrepreneurial spirit, his driven work ethic and extensive knowledge of the oil and gas industry, to pursue disciplined investments intended to enhance stockholder value.

| Roland O. Burns                                            |
| Director, President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary |

Mr. Burns, age 65, has been our President since 2013, Chief Financial Officer since 1990, Secretary since 1991 and a director on our Board since 1999. Mr