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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000022356-25-000033"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CBSH"
cik: "0000022356"
company_name: "COMMERCE BANCSHARES INC /MO/"
filed_at: "2025-04-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T04:18:12.588971+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Commerce Bancshares director Devanny retires; annual meeting elects directors and ratifies auditor

## Summary
- Earl H. Devanny III retired from board effective April 25, 2025 due to mandatory retirement age; had served since 2010.
- Shareholders elected Benjamin F. Rassieur III to 2027 class and four directors (Dunn, Fowler, Schnuck, Taylor) to 2028 class.
- Appointment of KPMG as independent auditor for 2025 ratified with 117,237,068 votes for.
- Advisory say-on-pay proposal passed with 89,595,192 votes for, 7,496,037 against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000022356-25-000033
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CBSH
- cik: 0000022356
- company_name: COMMERCE BANCSHARES INC /MO/
- filed_at: 2025-04-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/22356/000002235625000033/0000022356-25-000033-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/22356/000002235625000033/cbsh-20250425.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000022356-25-000033
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000022356-25-000033.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000022356-25-000033.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Earl H. Devanny III retired as Director at COMMERCE BANCSHARES INC /MO/.
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Director
  source text: Mr. Earl H. Devanny, III retired from the Board of Directors effective April 25, 2025, due to the Company's mandatory retirement age.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/22356/000002235625000033/0000022356-25-000033-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.