---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000318300-24-000091"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PEBO"
cik: "0000318300"
company_name: "PEOPLES BANCORP INC"
filed_at: "2024-02-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-06T05:01:01.113413+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Peoples Bancorp directors Tara Abraham and James Huggins to retire effective April 25, 2024

## Summary
- Tara M. Abraham and James S. Huggins notified company on Feb 6-7, 2024 of retirement from boards of Peoples Bancorp and Peoples Bank.
- Both have served on the boards since 2012; Huggins chaired Risk Committee since 2017.
- Retirement effective at end of current terms on April 25, 2024; no successor named in filing.
- Chairman Rector and CEO Sulerzyski thanked them for service and contributions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000318300-24-000091
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PEBO
- cik: 0000318300
- company_name: PEOPLES BANCORP INC
- filed_at: 2024-02-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/318300/000031830024000091/0000318300-24-000091-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/318300/000031830024000091/pebo-20240209.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000318300-24-000091
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000318300-24-000091.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000318300-24-000091.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Tara M. Abraham departed as Director at PEOPLES BANCORP INC.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 6, 2024, and on February 7, 2024, James S. Huggins and Tara M. Abraham, respectively, informed Peoples Bancorp Inc. (“Peoples”) of their decisions to retire from the Board of Directors of Peoples and the Board of Directors of Peoples’ banking subsidiary, Peoples Bank, effective when their current terms end on April 25, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/318300/000031830024000091/0000318300-24-000091-index.htm
- Executive change
  James S. Huggins departed as Director at PEOPLES BANCORP INC.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 6, 2024, and on February 7, 2024, James S. Huggins and Tara M. Abraham, respectively, informed Peoples Bancorp Inc. (“Peoples”) of their decisions to retire from the Board of Directors of Peoples and the Board of Directors of Peoples’ banking subsidiary, Peoples Bank, effective when their current terms end on April 25, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/318300/000031830024000091/0000318300-24-000091-index.htm

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