# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0000350852
**File Stem:** 0000350852-25-000073
**Filing Date:** 2025-6
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**Document Hash:** 0410a7cc289708065b224cc3e02f094d
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0000350852-25-000073.hdr.sgml**: 20250626

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0000350852-25-000073

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 14

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20250625

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250626

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20250626

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** COMMUNITY TRUST BANCORP INC /KY/
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0000350852
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** STATE COMMERCIAL BANKS [6022]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 02 Finance
- **EIN:** 610979818
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** KY
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-31220
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251080958

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 346 NORTH MAYO TRAIL
- **STREET 2:** P.O. BOX 2947
- **CITY:** PIKEVILLE
- **STATE:** KY
- **ZIP:** 41502-2947
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** (606)433-4643

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 346 NORTH MAYO TRAIL
- **STREET 2:** P.O. BOX 2947
- **CITY:** PIKEVILLE
- **STATE:** KY
- **ZIP:** 41502-2947

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** COMMUNITY TRUST BANCORP INC/
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 19971124

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#### UNITED STATES

#### SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

#### Washington, D.C. 20549

#### ______________________

#### FORM 8-K

#### CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the

Securities Exchange Act of 1934

#### ______________________
*Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)*

#### June 25, 2025

#### Commission file number 001-31220

#### Community Trust Bancorp, Inc.
*(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)*

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| **Kentucky**<br>*(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)* | **61-0979818**<br>*(IRS Employer Identification No.)* |
| **P.O. Box 2947**<br>**346 North Mayo Trail**<br>**Pikeville, Kentucky**<br> *(Address of principal executive offices)* | <br>**41502**<br>*(Zip code)* |

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(606) 432-1414

*(Registrant's telephone number)*

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

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|:---|:---|:---|
|  | **Common Stock**<br>*(Title of class)* |  |
| **CTBI**<br>*(Trading symbol)* |  | **The NASDAQ Global Select Market**<br>*(Name of exchange on which registered)* |

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Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

☐ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.405) or Rule 12b-2 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.12b-2).

Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act □

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#### ITEM 5.02 – DEPARTURE OF DIRECTORS OR CERTAIN OFFICERS; ELECTION OF DIRECTORS; APPOINTMENT OF CERTAIN OFFICERS; COMPENSATORY ARRANGEMENTS OF CERTAIN OFFICERS
On June 25, 2025, Community Trust Bancorp, Inc.'s ("CTBI") Board of Directors appointed David L. Baird as a director, effective immediately. The addition of Mr. Baird expands CTBI's Board of Directors (the "Board") to ten members. Mr. Baird is expected to be named to the Risk and Compliance Committee of the Board.

In connection with his service as a non-employee director, Mr. Baird will be compensated in accordance with CTBI's standard compensation policies and practices for non-employee directors of the Board as described in CTBI's Proxy Statement for its 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 21, 2025.

Mr. Baird does not have any family relationships with any of CTBI's directors or executive officers. He is a shareholder in Baird and Baird, P.S.C., a law firm that provided services to CTBI and its subsidiaries during previous years and has been retained during the fiscal year 2025. Approximately $0.5 million in legal fees and $0.1 million in expenses paid on behalf of CTBI, $0.6 million total, were paid to this law firm during 2024.

For further information regarding Mr. Baird, please see the attached press release included as Exhibit 99.1.

#### ITEM 9.01 – FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS
(d) Exhibits

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| **Exhibit No.** | **Description** |
| 99.1 | Press release dated June 26, 2025 |

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#### SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

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|  | **COMMUNITY TRUST BANCORP, INC.** |
|  | By: |
| Dated: June 26, 2025 | <u>/s/ Mark A. Gooch</u> |
|  | Mark A. Gooch |
|  | Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer |

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## Exhibit 99.1

Exhibit 99.1

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

JUNE 26, 2025

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT MARK A. GOOCH

CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT AND CEO, COMMUNITY TRUST BANCORP, INC.

AT (606) 437-3229

#### COMMUNITY TRUST BANCORP, INC. ANNOUNCES

#### THE APPOINTMENT OF DAVID L. BAIRD TO

#### ITS BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PIKEVILLE, KENTUCKY: Community Trust Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTBI) is pleased to announce the appointment of David L. Baird to its Board of Directors.

A native of Pikeville, Kentucky, Mr. Baird is an attorney and shareholder at Baird & Baird, P.S.C. in Pikeville, Kentucky. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the Richard T. Farmer School of Business at Miami University (Ohio). He earned his Juris Doctor from the Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University in Highland Heights, Kentucky.

Mr. Baird's legal practice has concentrated on Mineral and Environmental Law, Real

Property and Contract Litigation, Business Transactions, Bankruptcy (Creditor) and General Practice. He is a member of the Kentucky Bar Association and the Pike County Bar Association. He is admitted to practice in all courts in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the United States District Courts in both the Western and Eastern District of Kentucky, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Mr. Baird is a member of the Board Directors of Pikeville Medical Center, Inc., The Elliott Company, Hocker Developments, Inc., and the Pike County Regional Airport Board. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Southeast Kentucky Chamber of Commerce from 2014 through 2019, serving as its Chairman in 2018. He also serves on the Board of Sandy Valley Habitat for Humanity, The Rotary Club of Pikeville and regional education initiative, Community Economic Development and Revitalization (CEDAR). He and his wife Lisa live in Pikeville with their three children where they are members of the Pikeville United Methodist Church.

"We are very pleased to have Mr. Baird join the Board of Directors of Community Trust Bancorp, Inc. He brings a level of experience and knowledge which makes him a valuable addition to our Board," said Mark A. Gooch, Chairman, President and CEO of Community Trust Bancorp, Inc.

Community Trust Bancorp, Inc., with assets of $6.3 billion, is headquartered in Pikeville, Kentucky and has 72 banking locations across eastern, northeastern, central, and south central Kentucky, six banking locations in southern West Virginia, three banking locations in Tennessee, four trust offices across Kentucky, and one trust office in Tennessee.

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