Company: FSBC
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001275168-25-000056
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Company: FIVE STAR BANCORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form: DEF 14A
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 applicable rules, regulations, and guidance regarding the composition of our leadership. Members of our board of directors represent diverse backgrounds, including diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, and other demographics. We are committed to ethical business practices and accounting transparency, as evidenced through our involvement in the community and results of examinations by regulators.

Dedication to Community Impact and Inclusion

Community Impact and Inclusion is essential in our workplace. We have a fully engaged Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and a Vice President and Director of Community Impact and Inclusion who lead our efforts. Our Human Resources department is focused on our commitment to inclusion through hiring practices and employee training. We are committed to ensuring that all employees feel a sense of belonging in the workplace and that processes and programs are impartial, fair, and provide equal opportunity for every individual. We also have a history of serving customers in the non-profit community who are dedicated to the success of under-resourced and vulnerable populations, the empowerment of women, and the continued vitality of the environment.

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### ITEMS TO BE VOTED ON BY SHAREHOLDERS

## ITEM 1. ELECTION OF DIRECTORS

#### Election and Classification of Directors
In accordance with the terms of our Bylaws, each of our directors will be elected for a one-year term until the following annual meeting of shareholders and until their successors are elected and qualified, or until his or her earlier death, resignation, or removal.

Accordingly, at the annual meeting, shareholders will vote to elect 10 directors to serve for terms expiring at the Company’s 2026 annual meeting of shareholders. Each of the following persons listed and described below is nominated for election as a director at the meeting. The term of service indicated for each director below includes the term of service as a director of the Bank prior to the Company becoming the bank holding company for the Bank. Each member of the Company’s board of directors also serves as a member of the Bank’s board of directors. No director has any family relationship, as defined in Item 401(d) of Regulation S-K, with any other director or any of our executive officers. None of the persons nominated for election as director listed below were selected pursuant to any arrangement or understanding other than with the directors and executive officers of the Company acting within their capacities as such.

The persons nominated for election as a director receiving the most votes will be elected directors. Abstentions, broker non-votes, and votes withheld are treated as present for quorum purposes only