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Exhibit 10.8(h)




Salary Stock Unit Program

(Last revised October 18, 2010)





	1.	 	Purpose. The purpose of the Program is to link more of each participant’s
compensation to the company’s stock performance and facilitate retention of key executives.
	 
	2.	 	Committee Actions. From time to time the Compensation Committee (CC) (a) will
identify persons who are to receive a portion of salary in the form of salary stock units
(SSUs), and (b) will determine the dollar amount of salary that each such person will receive
in the form of SSUs, sometimes called the SSU crediting rate. The portion of salary in the
form of SSUs may be in lieu of cash salary or supplemental to prior cash salary rates. The
crediting of SSUs to each such person will continue while he or she is employed with FHN until
the CC changes or ends the person’s participation or this SSU Program, unless the CC approves
an automatic sunset date for participation or this Program or unless the CC limits
participation to a specified year and fails to renew participation. It is expected that the CC
will reconsider these determinations at least once each year. The CC may change or eliminate
the dollar amount of salary to be paid to a participant in the form of SSUs at any time;
although such action would not affect previously-credited SSUs, no participant has any right
to continue to receive new SSUs at any specific dollar level or at all. In addition, the CC
may accelerate settlement of SSUs globally or for any participant based on the value of FHN
stock at that time, and may change the terms of SSUs or this Program at any time.
	 
	3.	 	SSU Terms and Mechanics.






	 	a.	 	For each person designated to participate in the Program by CC action taken in 2009,
crediting of SSUs is expected to commence on that payday relating to the first full pay
period of 2010. For each person designated to participate in the Program by CC action taken
after 2009, crediting of SSUs is expected to commence the second payday following CC
action. In all cases commencement dates are subject to delay for administrative reasons,
and the CC may direct that another date be used in a particular instance.
	 
	 	b.	 	When SSUs are credited to a participant as of a particular payday, the number of SSUs
will equal the dollar amount of salary for that payday to be paid in the form of SSUs (net
of any applicable withholding taxes, as provided in paragraph e below) divided by the
average or closing share price of FHN stock for any day selected by the administrator which
is one of the ten consecutive trading days ending with that payday. The number of credited
SSUs will be calculated and rounded down (not up) as the administrator determines. The
initial determinations of these matters are: the high-low average price of stock on the
third business day prior to the relevant payday will be used; and, units will be carried
out to the same number of decimal places as stock dividends for ordinary shareholders,
except that the number of SSUs will be rounded down.
	 
	 	c.	 	Settlement.






	 	(i)	 	General Rule. Each SSU entitles the participant to receive the cash value of
one share of FHN stock valued at the average closing price of FHN stock over the first
ten trading days in June of the second year after the calendar year of crediting.
Settlement of SSUs will be made within 25 business days after that settlement valuation
date. For example, SSUs credited during 2010 would be settled in July or August 2012
based on the average closing price of FHN stock measured over the first ten trading
days of June 2012. SSUs credited during 2011 would be settled and valued in 2013, and
so on. In converting SSUs to cash values when settled, dollar amounts will be
calculated and rounded down (not up) as the administrator determines.
	 
	 	(ii)	 	SEOs. The General Rule above applies to participants who, in the year SSUs are
credited, are “senior executive officers” (SEOs) under the Troubled Asset Relief
Program (TARP) rules,














 






	 	 	 	subject to the changes provided in this sub-section (ii). For
SEOs, SSUs credited in any given year will be paid one-half in March and one-half in
September of the next year. The administrator will cause the SSUs to be paid on or
about the first business day of each such month, subject to ordinary administrative
considerations. The valuation period for each SSU payment to SEOs will be the average
closing price of FHN stock over the first ten trading days in February for the March
payment, and over the first ten trading days in August for the September payment.






	 	d.	 	SSUs will not be settled in actual shares of stock, and will have no voting rights. An
SSU will not be represented by any certificate or document, but instead will be credited on
the books of FHN or its administrative agent. SSUs are not associated with any plan of FHN.
	 
	 	e.	 	Taxes will be withheld in connection with a crediting or settlement event (as
applicable) and remitted to government authorities as necessary or appropriate. Taxes
withheld in connection with crediting may be withheld from salary paid in the form of cash
or other contemporaneously paid compensation, or may reduce the number of SSUs credited, or
both, as the administrator determines. Participants are not permitted to elect to be taxed
on SSUs at the time of crediting. The initial determinations of these matters are: any
FICA, medicare, and income taxes withheld in connection with crediting SSUs will reduce the
dollar amount of salary which is to be converted into SSUs.
	 
	 	f.	 	SSUs will be adjusted for stock dividends and splits that occur after crediting and
prior to settlement in order to prevent enlargement or dilution of value. In making such
adjustments, SSUs will be treated in a manner similar to ordinary shares except that
calculated numbers of SSUs are to be rounded down (not up) as the administrator determines.
The administrator will make appropriate adjustments for SSUs credited near dividend and
split record dates to account for the effects of ex-trading dates in the market prices of
FHN shares, again in order to prevent enlargement or dilution of value.
	 
	 	g.	 	If cash dividends are declared on FHN shares during the time that a participant holds
SSUs, a cash amount will be credited to the participant equivalent to the cash dividend
that would have been paid on a like number of ordinary FHN shares, calculated and rounded
down (not up) as the administrator determines. Credited cash dividend equivalent amounts
will not be converted into SSUs and will not accrue interest, and will be paid to the
participant at the time that the associated SSUs are paid.
	 
	 	h.	 	SSUs are not transferable.
	 
	 	i.	 	Absent other action by the CC, if FHN merges or consolidates and as a result FHN shares
cease to be publicly outstanding, then outstanding SSUs will be converted into units
denominated in shares of the surviving or resulting company based on the transaction value.
The conversion will be accomplished, to the extent practicable, so as to prevent
enlargement or dilution of value.
	 
	 	j.	 	SSUs are a special form of deferred salary and are credited in tandem with cash salary.
When cash salary no longer is paid to a participant, SSUs no longer will be credited. If
cash salary previously paid to a participant were subject to forfeiture or reclamation for
any reason, the associated SSUs similarly would be subject to forfeiture or reclamation.
However, SSU crediting rates and cash salary rates may be adjusted independently of each
other; a change in a participant’s cash salary rate does not automatically result in any
change in that person’s SSU crediting rate.
	 
	 	k.	 	The timing, pricing, and other administrative determinations associated with SSU
recipients who are subject to Form 4 reporting may differ from those of other program
participants. Initially, no such differences have been approved by the administrator.














 












	4.	 	Termination of Employment.






	 	a.	 	Subject to the exceptions set forth below, credited SSUs will be forfeited unless the
participant is continuously employed by FHN or a subsidiary through the payment date of the
SSUs.
	 
	 	b.	 	Notwithstanding paragraph a., if a participant dies, his or her credited and unpaid
SSUs will not be forfeited as a result of death, and settlement of the SSUs will be
accelerated in an equitable and appropriate manner determined by the administrator. The
valuation date for any such settlement will be the first trading day following the date of
death.
	 
	 	c.	 	Notwithstanding paragraph a., if a participant’s employment with FHN terminates as a
result of normal or early retirement or disability, then his or her credited and unpaid
SSUs will not be forfeited as a result of that termination, and settlement of the SSUs will
occur at the ordinary times set forth in this Program. For this purpose, “normal
retirement” and “early retirement” have the meanings given in procedure 43 of the Equity
Award Administration Procedures (rev’d July 20, 2009), and “disability” means a disability
that would qualify as a total and permanent disability under the long-term disability plan
then in effect at FHN, or (if different) at the FHN subsidiary employing the participant,
at the onset of such total and permanent disability.
	 
	 	d.	 	Notwithstanding paragraph c., a participant who has terminated employment but retained
SSUs due to retirement or disability shall forfeit all of those retained SSUs if, at any
time during the period prior to the latest payment date of any SSUs credited to him or her
at the time of termination, the participant engages in any competitive activity. Each of
the CC and the administrator has the discretion to determine whether any particular
activity is competitive with FHN or any of its subsidiaries.
	 
	 	e.	 	Enforcement of the vesting and forfeiture conditions above is subject to the U.S.
Department of the Treasury compensation rules applicable to FHN under the TARP. At the time
this Program is adopted, it is uncertain whether the TARP rules prohibit FHN from imposing
vesting and forfeiture conditions upon SSUs credited to participants who are SEOs at the
time of crediting. As long as such uncertainty exists, this Program will be interpreted to
assume that the TARP rules prohibit the imposition of a vesting condition on SEO
participants. However, if the TARP rules are later amended or interpreted so that the
vesting condition is permitted with respect to SEOs, FHN retains the right to impose the
vesting condition on SEOs to the maximum extent allowed, including retroactively to any
time when uncertainty existed.






	5.	 	No Elective Deferrals. Participants may not elect to defer the settlement of SSUs
beyond the mandatory deferral period provided in the program above. SSUs are not eligible for
elective deferral under any deferral plan or program of FHN, even if those plans or programs
generally allow deferral of salary. Outstanding salary deferral elections shall not apply to
SSUs.
	 
	6.	 	Treatment of SSUs as Base Salary. SSUs are, or are not, to be treated as base salary
under the plans and programs listed below. For any plan or program not listed, SSUs shall not
be treated as base salary unless the administrator determines otherwise; any such
determinations must be reported to the CC at or before its next quarterly meeting.
	 
	 	 	SSUs, measured at the crediting rate and date rather than the ultimate payment amount and date,
are treated as base salary for the following (subject to the limitation in the next sentence):






	 	a.	 	Retirement and retirement restoration plans, including pension and savings plans.
	 
	 	b.	 	All life and disability benefit and insurance programs.
	 
	 	c.	 	Other programs treated as ‘benefit’ programs by FHN’s Human Resources division. This
provision does not include severance programs.














 












	 	 	For each such case, the amount of SSUs treated as base salary shall not exceed $200,000 per
person per calendar year.
	 
	 	 	SSUs are not treated as base salary for the following:






	 	d.	 	Change in control severance agreements and any change in control severance plan or
program that may apply to a holder of SSUs.
	 
	 	e.	 	Any other present or future severance plan, program, or agreement.






	7.	 	Administration. The EVP — Human Resources (Chief Human Resources Officer) is the
program administrator, with authority to oversee all administrative matters related to the SSU
program. All administrative actions must further the purposes of the program and be compatible
with legal requirements and appropriate tax and accounting outcomes. The administrator may
deviate from or modify the following program provisions under this authority: any provision
governing a settlement date or a date as of which FHN stock is valued to convert cash amounts
into SSUs, or SSUs into cash, provided that such a provision may be changed only out of
demonstrable administrative necessity and must be reported at the next quarterly CC meeting;
for any calculation, any provision governing a number of decimal places or a rounding
convention; and, any provision to the extent necessary to comply with legal requirements, to
avoid a legal penalty or forfeiture, or to obtain or preserve appropriate tax and accounting
outcomes, provided that in no case may actual shares of stock be issued in settlement of SSUs.