Company: SDHC
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001982518-25-000012
Chunk: 22

Company: Smith Douglas Homes Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 22
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 set forth in our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, subject to the rights of holders of any series of Preferred Stock to elect directors, all director nominees will stand for election for one-year terms that expire at the following year’s annual meeting. The current terms of each of our directors will expire at this Annual Meeting.

#### Family Relationships
Thomas L. Bradbury, our founder and Executive Chairman of our Board, is the father-in-law of Julie M. Bradbury, one of our directors. Other than the foregoing, there are no family relationships between or among any of our directors, executive officers, or persons nominated or chosen to become a director or executive officer.

#### Director Independence
Neill B. Faucett, Jeffrey T. Jackson, George Ervin Perdue III, Janice E. Walker, and Neil B. Wedewer each qualify as “independent” in accordance with the listing requirements of the New York Stock Exchange (the “ NYSE ”). In making these determinations, our Board reviewed and discussed information provided by the directors and us with regard to each director’s business and personal activities and relationships as they may relate to us and our management. Based on his or her relationship with the Company (and in the case of Julie M. Bradbury, management of the Company), each of Thomas L. Bradbury, Gregory S. Bennett, and Julie M. Bradbury does not qualify as independent under the NYSE Rules.

#### Controlled Company Exemption
The Founder Fund has more than 50% of the combined voting power of our common stock. As a result, we are a “controlled company” within the meaning of the corporate governance standards of the NYSE rules and intend to elect not to comply with certain corporate governance standards, including that we have a Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee that is composed entirely of independent directors. From time to time, we may rely on additional exemptions provided to controlled companies under the NYSE rules. For example, as a controlled company, from time to time we may not have a majority of independent directors on our Board, have an entirely independent Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, an entirely independent Compensation Committee, have a compensation consultant, legal counsel, or other external adviser selected by the Compensation Committee after taking into consideration those independence factors enumerated by NYSE rules, or perform annual performance evaluations of the Nominating and Corporate Governance and Compensation Committees. Accordingly, you may not have the same protections afforded to stockholders of companies that are subject to all of these corporate governance requirements.