---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000022356-25-000055"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CBSH"
cik: "0000022356"
company_name: "COMMERCE BANCSHARES INC /MO/"
filed_at: "2025-09-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T08:40:33.001144+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Commerce Bancshares director Jonathan M. Kemper retires due to mandatory retirement policy

## Summary
- Jonathan M. Kemper retired from the Board effective August 31, 2025.
- He had been a Board member since 1997 and is retired Chairman Emeritus of Commerce Bank.
- Retirement was due to the mandatory retirement requirements of the Company.
- No replacement was announced in the filing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000022356-25-000055
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CBSH
- cik: 0000022356
- company_name: COMMERCE BANCSHARES INC /MO/
- filed_at: 2025-09-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/22356/000002235625000055/0000022356-25-000055-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/22356/000002235625000055/cbsh-20250831.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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