Simmons First National Corporation

04/26/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 04/26/2024 10:16

Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders - Form 8-K

Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

On April 23, 2024, Simmons First National Corporation ("Corporation") held its Annual Meeting of Shareholders ("Meeting") at the Corporation's corporate offices in Little Rock, Arkansas. At the Meeting, the following matters were submitted to the Corporation's security holders for consideration: (1) ratification of the action of the Corporation's board of directors fixing the number of directors at fourteen; (2) election of fourteen directors; (3) adoption of a non-bindingresolution approving the compensation of the named executive officers of the Corporation; (4) ratification of the Audit Committee's selection of the accounting firm FORVIS, LLP as independent auditors of the Corporation and its subsidiaries for the year ending December 31, 2024; and (5) approval of the Simmons First National Corporation Second Amended and Restated 2015 Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

At the Meeting, all fourteen directors were elected by proxies solicited pursuant to Section 14 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, without any solicitation in opposition thereto. The following table summarizes the required analysis of the voting by security holders at the Meeting:

Voting of Shares

Action

For

Against

Abstain

Broker

Non-Votes

Fix the number of directors at fourteen

105,474,289 2,180,139 332,542 0

Election of Directors

For

Against

Abstain

Broker

Non-Votes

Marty D. Casteel

87,208,889 3,970,523 274,614 16,532,945

William E. Clark, II

87,261,593 3,909,155 283,278 16,532,945

Steven A. Cosse

80,014,396 11,157,346 282,284 16,532,945

Mark C. Doramus

87,067,835 4,096,065 290,126 16,532,945

Edward Drilling

86,508,382 4,668,922 276,722 16,532,945

Eugene Hunt

86,876,391 4,290,313 287,322 16,532,945

Jerry Hunter

86,352,608 4,749,261 352,157 16,532,945

Susan Lanigan

84,372,397 6,797,630 283,999 16,532,945

George A. Makris, Jr.

86,453,443 4,729,087 271,496 16,532,945

Tom E. Purvis

87,493,730 3,667,957 292,339 16,532,945

Robert L. Shoptaw

85,162,578 5,939,104 352,344 16,532,945

Julie Stackhouse

87,996,445 3,189,562 268,019 16,532,945

Russell Teubner

87,977,352 3,176,509 300,165 16,532,945

Mindy West

86,521,435 4,651,434 281,157 16,532,945

Action

For

Against

Abstain

Broker

Non-Votes

Adoption of a non-bindingresolution approving the compensation of the named executive officers

84,412,981 6,301,373 739,672 16,532,945

Action

For

Against

Abstain

Broker

Non-Votes

Ratification of the Audit Committee's selection of FORVIS, LLP as independent auditors of the Corporation and its subsidiaries for the year ending December 31, 2024

104,622,834 3,061,375 302,762 0

Action

For

Against

Abstain

Broker

Non-Votes

Approval of the Simmons First National Corporation Second Amended and Restated 2015 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

88,426,674 2,425,406 601,946 16,532,945