---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000706129-24-000085"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HBNC"
cik: "0000706129"
company_name: "HORIZON BANCORP INC /IN/"
filed_at: "2024-07-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T20:19:23.396628+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Horizon Bank appoints Michele Samuels and Brian Walker as independent directors

## Summary
- Appointments effective June 18, 2024, for subsidiary Horizon Bank's board.
- Samuels is SVP, General Auditor & Compliance Officer at BCBSM; Walker is retired CEO of Herman Miller.
- Samuels joins Cyber Security and Audit Committees; Walker joins Compensation and ERM & Credit Policy Committees.
- Walker serves on boards of Gentex (GNTX) and UFP Industries (UFPI).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000706129-24-000085
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HBNC
- cik: 0000706129
- company_name: HORIZON BANCORP INC /IN/
- filed_at: 2024-07-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/706129/000070612924000085/0000706129-24-000085-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/706129/000070612924000085/formdirectorappointment717.htm

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