---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000705432-24-000079"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SBSI"
cik: "0000705432"
company_name: "SOUTHSIDE BANCSHARES INC"
filed_at: "2024-05-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T17:42:46.670597+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Southside Bancshares appoints Keith Donahoe as President; base salary $510K

## Summary
- Keith Donahoe, former Central Texas Regional President, appointed President of Southside Bancshares and Southside Bank.
- Donahoe, 53, joined Southside in 2021; over 30 years commercial banking experience, previously EVP at Frost Bank.
- Annual base salary of $510,000 approved; participates in same benefit programs as other executive officers.
- Lee R. Gibson remains CEO and director; no familial relationships or reportable transactions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000705432-24-000079
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SBSI
- cik: 0000705432
- company_name: SOUTHSIDE BANCSHARES INC
- filed_at: 2024-05-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/705432/000070543224000079/0000705432-24-000079-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/705432/000070543224000079/sbsi-20240516.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000705432-24-000079
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000705432-24-000079.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Keith Donahoe was appointed as President at SOUTHSIDE BANCSHARES INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: President
  source text: On May 16, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Southside Bancshares, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Keith Donahoe, Regional President of Central Texas of Southside Bank (“Southside”), a subsidiary of the Company, to serve as the Company’s President.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/705432/000070543224000079/0000705432-24-000079-index.htm

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