---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000705432-24-000048"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SBSI"
cik: "0000705432"
company_name: "SOUTHSIDE BANCSHARES INC"
filed_at: "2024-03-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-05T03:12:07.958071+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Chief Lending Officer Tim Alexander retiring May 31, 2024; Curtis Burchard to succeed effective April 15, 2024

## Summary
- Tim Alexander, Chief Lending Officer, to retire effective May 31, 2024; with company since 2005 and CLO since 2017.
- Curtis Burchard, 62, appointed CLO effective April 15, 2024, subject to board approval on March 21.
- Burchard joined Southside Bank July 2023 as Senior EVP; previously at Texas Capital Bank and BBVA/Compass Bank over 40 years.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000705432-24-000048
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SBSI
- cik: 0000705432
- company_name: SOUTHSIDE BANCSHARES INC
- filed_at: 2024-03-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/705432/000070543224000048/0000705432-24-000048-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/705432/000070543224000048/sbsi-20240305.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000705432-24-000048
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000705432-24-000048.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Tim Alexander retired as Chief Lending Officer at SOUTHSIDE BANCSHARES INC.
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Chief Lending Officer
  source text: Tim Alexander, Chief Lending Officer of Southside Bancshares, Inc. (the “Company) and Southside Bank (the “Bank”), a subsidiary of the Company, and advisory director of the Bank, notified the Company of his decision to retire, effective May 31, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/705432/000070543224000048/0000705432-24-000048-index.htm
- Executive change
  Curtis Burchard was appointed as Chief Lending Officer at SOUTHSIDE BANCSHARES INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Lending Officer
  source text: Curtis Burchard will be appointed Chief Lending Officer of the Company and the Bank, an action that is expected to be approved by the Board of Directors of the Bank and the Company at the respective Board meetings on March 21, 2024, to become effective on April 15, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/705432/000070543224000048/0000705432-24-000048-index.htm

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