Company: GDV-PK
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001133228-25-002931
Chunk: 7

Company: GABELLI DIVIDEND & INCOME TRUST
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 7
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 Annual Meeting of Shareholders

Mario J. Gabelli

Michael J. Melarkey

Christina A. Peeney

Susan Watson Laughlin

Trustees Serving Until 2027 Annual Meeting of Shareholders

Robert P. Astorino

Elizabeth C. Bogan

James P. Conn

Agnes Mullady

Salvatore M. Salibello

Trustees Serving Until 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders

Anthony S. Colavita

Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr.

Anthonie C. van Ekris

Salvatore J. Zizza

Under the Fund’s Declaration
of Trust, Statements of Preferences, and the 1940 Act, holders of the Fund’s outstanding Preferred Shares, voting as a separate
class, are entitled to elect two Trustees, and holders of the Fund’s outstanding Common Shares and Preferred Shares, voting together
as a single class, are entitled to elect the remaining Trustees. The holders of the Fund’s outstanding Preferred Shares would be
entitled to elect the minimum number of additional Trustees that would represent a majority of the Trustees in the event that dividends
on the Fund’s

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Preferred Shares
become in arrears for two full years and until all arrearages are eliminated. No dividend arrearages exist as of the date of this Proxy
Statement. Messrs. Anthony S. Colavita and James P. Conn are currently the Trustees elected solely by the holders of the Fund’s
Preferred Shares. Messrs. Colavita’s and Conn’s terms as Trustees are scheduled to expire at the Fund’s 2026 and 2027
Annual Meeting of Shareholders, respectively. Therefore, they are not standing for election at this Meeting.

Unless instructions are provided
to the contrary, it is the intention of the persons named in the proxy to vote the proxy “FOR” the election
of the nominees named above. Each nominee has indicated that he or she has consented to serve as a Trustee if elected at the Meeting.
If, however, a designated nominee declines or otherwise becomes unavailable for election, the proxy confers discretionary power on the
persons named therein to vote in favor of a substitute nominee or nominees. Each nominee is qualified to serve as a Trustee under the Fund’s governing documents.

Information
about Trustees and Officers

Set forth in the table below are
the existing Trustees, including those Trustees who are not considered to be “interested persons,” as defined
in the 194