Company: FGBI
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001408534-25-000019
Chunk: 15

Company: First Guaranty Bancshares, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 15
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 The Committee shall review the guidelines on an annual basis, or more frequently if appropriate, and recommend changes as necessary.

• Review, as appropriate and in consultation with the Compensation Committee, director compensation, and benefits.

• Retain and determine any search firm to assist in identifying director candidates, and to retain outside counsel and any other advisors as the Committee may deem appropriate in fulfilling its responsibilities. The Committee shall notify the Board prior to retaining any search firm, counsel or other advisors. The Committee shall have sole authority to approve related fees and retention terms.

• Report to the full Board of Directors any actions taken for ratification of the Committee's actions by the Board as necessary.

The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee Charter may be accessed on www.fgb.net. It is expected that the Nominating Committee will use the same process to evaluate potential candidates recommended by shareholders as it uses to evaluate any other potential candidate. Shareholders wishing to propose a nominee to the committee should send written notice to Mr. Marshall T. Reynolds at the following address: P. O. Box 2009, Hammond, LA 70404. The notice should include:

• The name, age, business and residence addresses, and principal occupation and experience of each proposed nominee; information that is required to be disclosed in solicitation of proxies for election of directors, or is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to Regulation 14A under the Exchange Act, including such person's written consent to being named in the proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a director; and

• The name and address of the shareholder giving the notice and number of shares of common stock of First Guaranty of which the shareholder is the record owner.

In evaluating director nominees, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee considers the following factors:

• The appropriate size of First Guaranty's Board of Directors;

• The needs of First Guaranty with respect to the particular talents and experience of its directors;

• The knowledge, skills and experience of nominees, including experience in technology, business, finance, administration or public service;

• Experience with accounting rules and practices;

• Appreciation of the relationship of First Guaranty's business to the changing needs of society; and

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• The desire to balance the considerable benefit of continuity with the periodic injection of the fresh perspective provided by new members.

The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee's goal is to assemble a Board of Directors that brings to First Guaranty a variety of perspectives and skills